Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I hope and pray that this letter finds all of you doing well.
With the recent increase in the cost of utilities and other expenses, we are concerned that the weekly offertory will not be able to help cover our monthly utility bills. We have been exploring different ways we can help subsidize our Parish income and we have come up with the “Sponsor A Day” program. Other parishes in the area have been using this program and have had great success.
I’m asking you to consider supporting our parish by committing to “Sponsor A Day” at either St. James Parish or Immaculate Conception. The concept is rather simple. We are asking you to simply help sponsor the cost of running the Parish for one day. The cost to do this is $125. As you can imagine with just the cost of salaries, and bills, etc., $125 a day won’t cover everything; but it will cover the paying of our utilities which will help take a lot of pressure off of the Parish finances to make ends meet.
The numbers have been crunched and rounded to this amount of $125, with the hope that it wouldn’t be too difficult for people to manage. That having been said some may want to help with more than one day. We won’t argue with that, I promise. We are hoping to get all 365 days of the year covered. I ask you to take a look at the form and prayerfully consider whether you think you would be able to help in this new fundraiser. If I, or anyone in the Parish Office, can be of any help in this new endeavor please do not hesitate to call upon us.
Yours in Christ,
Rev Carlos D. Suarez, Pastor