Greetings in Christ, all!
In a couple of weeks, I am going to get up and talk at every Mass about an upcoming campaign for
Catholic Schools for all parishes in our diocese. I’m very excited about this and I hope that you’ll all help. I’ll get into those details later, but I needed to tell you about its existence because it has an impact on some other things I will be sharing with you:
In 2017 our parish entered into a Planned Unit Development (PUD) agreement with the City of Grand Blanc in which we agreed to address projects on our campus. The first three phases of the PUD are:
1. Build/Renovate our church – COMPLETED
2. Build a new Outreach and Maintenance garage facility
3. Expand our parking lot to include a required number of parking spaces (this requires the demolition and removal of our current outreach building and maintenance garage and sheds).
The timeline demands of the PUD and the condition of our current Outreach house are such that we need to move forward with plans to build a new superstructure that will be a garage, storage area and a center for our Outreach work.
I want to let you know that you are going to start seeing some work being done on our property, however because of the upcoming campaign, our Bishop asked us not to fundraise for this project and, of course, we agreed. As it is now, we simply have to start the work before we’ve done the fundraiser and so that is where we are.
Now, what is our plan? We have been given a goal for fundraising to help Catholic Schools so we added to that total, knowing we have to fix the Outreach situation as soon as possible.
Whew! That was a lot and I hope it makes sense to you.
Please pray for our efforts here…I know Jesus is in charge and He will give us all we need to do His work.
I’m so very grateful to be your priest.
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