Capital Campaign reaches $22 million
The heat and humiidity may sap people’s energy in mid July, but it’s not sapping their faith and support of the Together for God’s Good Work capital campaign which reached $22 million July 16.
Funds raised in the capital campaign go toward a number of projects including $4 million for support of the local parishes. The $25 million target includes plans for endowments for the Infirm Priests’ Fund, parish youth ministry, parish religious education, Catholic school scholarships, and Catholic Charities. Other projects are construction at the Catholic Pastoral Center and the Catholic Student Center at Lamar, and a development fund for Holy Family Retreat Center.
Another of the items the campaign will fund is the annual support of the diocesan ministries. Of the $25 million, $2 million of that will go to the 2010 Bishop’s Faith Appeal – the annual appeal that raises money to fund the operational expenses of the diocesan ministries.
Annually Bishop’s Faith Appeal helps fund 18 diocesan ministries and Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas. Instead of running two appeals this year, the BFA was combined with the capital campaign. Ministries supported by the BFA include Permanent Diaconate Formation, Office of Worship, ministry to African Americans, Hispanic, families, seafarers, those imprisoned and to the sick, and Communications Ministry.
For more information on how your gift will help
To see more on the ministries that will be supported by the campaign click here (pdf)
Bishop Guillory invites each of you, as a member of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Beaumont, to bring your gifts and add them to what others will offer to raise $25,000,000.
As a good steward, you are called to reflect on the abundant gifts of God, to consider all the ways that your life has been blessed, and to return to God in the same measure that God has given to you. Together we can provide for the good work.
For these reasons, everyone is asked to give, but not everyone is asked to give the same amount. There is a gift plan in this brochure that can be used as a guideline in making your decision. Please consider it carefully and select the gift that best expresses your gift of gratitude. Your gift can be made as a pledge payable over a 5-year period on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis. Reminders will be mailed to your home based on the pledge plan you select.
Your contribution should relate to how generous God has been to you. If you are financially able to pledge $10,000, $25,000, $50,000 or even $100,000, we ask you to be leaders in our campaign with these substantial gifts. Not everyone can make the same size gift, but everyone can make the same size sacrifice.
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