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Saint Mary Immaculate Conception Church

2018
Annual Report to Parishioners

“Lord, how would you like me to become more involved in the life of Your Church?”

Dear Friends in Christ,
Thank you for supporting the ministry of Jesus here in Jefferson County!
This report is for our past fiscal year—July 1,2017 through June 30,2018.
Through your generosity and support, good and great things have happened at St. Mary the Immaculate Conception Parish this year.
Deacon Mark Kabat was ordained a deacon and began serving our parish and St. Barbara’s parish.
Parishioners established a parish healthcare ministry and an advisory committee to guide it. They help us to give more thought to how we steward the gift of life and health and are available to accompany people through the maze of healthcare choices.
Mrs. Teresa Foulks, our Coordinator of Religious Education, now shepherds a successful Junior High Youth Ministry called the Edge. She has also assembled a group of nine volunteers who are working on building up youth ministry events for young people in high school. We are still a work in progress, but the parish is becoming intentional about promoting the faith with our teens.
More recently, Mr. Ken Martinek accepted an invitation to join our staff as a part-time Coordinator of Maintenance. In a few, short months Ken has cleared backlogged projects and begun the work of putting our buildings on a regular schedule of maintenance. With his help—and yours—we will protect our investment in our buildings where ministry in Jesus’ name can grow.
In the coming year, Parish Success Group will help parish leaders study our situation, develop goals, and establish processes designed to help us better serve the Church’s mission of evangelization and fostering discipleship. We’ll begin efforts to pay down our mortgage debt. Unfortunately, within the past couple of years a number of our generous parishioners have passed or moved to other locations leaving our monthly donations short of our mortgage payment obligations. Our church general fund will not be able to cover this deficit for an extended period of time so we ask that if you are able, when making your calendar year end charitable contributions, you prayerfully consider helping the parish with our debt reduction.
Of course, we will always look for opportunities to make the worship of God and the service of neighbor central to our life together.
Thank you for your generosity and faithfulness!
Yours in Christ,
Father John

Fr. Bert’s 60th

Our Mission Statement:
We are people guided by God, called to be a welcoming community celebrating our Catholic Christian faith through continuing worship, education, and service within our parish and the world beyond.

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of the
1921 church

By the Numbers
613 Families in our parish
1131 Registered members
23 New families
11 Infant/child baptisms
8 Adult baptisms/professions of faith
12 First holy communion
16 Funerals
130 Children in St. Mary’s school
28 Children in the school of religion
9 Teens helped on the Cairo mission trip
271 Individuals served by the Advent angel giving tree
252 masses said at the church
8 prayer shawls created and presented
On average 475 people attended mass each weekend
942 hours devoted to eucharistic adoration
34 families assisted financially
41 parishioners homebound or in full-time care facilities
101 Parishioners Participated in The Journey and 106 in Living the Eucharist Faith Formation Groups

Picture of Teens
Leaving for Daystar
Trip

2017/2018 Highlights:
Teresa Foulks joins parish staff as Coordinator of Religious Education
Parish nursing program commenced
School roof loan paid in full. Thank you parents and parishioners
Joint St. Mary’s/St. Barbara’s parish council formed
Church van purchased to allow trips to special events and parishioners in care facilities to attend mass
St. Mary’s school increases enrollment 16% in past two school years
Year 2 of The Journey small group faith formation
Catholic book club formed
Final removal of the old church allowed a secured playground with new equipment to be installed. The Ga Ga pit was built as part of Wyatt Schroeder’s Eagle Scout project.
Children’s Faith Formation, EDGE, & High School Youth Ministry Programs Up & Running

St. Mary Catholic School
Our Vision: Enter to learn, go forth to love and serve others
Our Mission: To Be A Catholic Family of Faith
Forming Scholars, Citizens, and Saints

Our Offertory Report
Number of families receiving envelopes 529
Number of families using envelopes 290
Number of families giving electronically 44
Number of families who gave in the last fiscal year 334
Average weekly offertory collections $11,702
Principal owed on church mortgage $1,120,456
Principal owed on school roof loan $0!!!!!!!

Our Financial Report

General Fund

Building Fund

	FY 2018	FY 2017
INCOME
Collections	$507,611	$516,477
Other Income	$12,593	$9345
Dioc./Spec. Collect.	$73,604	$82,794
Total Income	$593,808	$608,616
EXPENSES
Personnel Costs	$103,483	$126,469
Building	$33,504	$12,930
Administration	$108,264	$113,808
Religious Ed	$16,407	$13,417
Liturgy	$14,122	$18,152
Social Ministry	$4084	$1692
School	$200,177	$200,320
Diocese	$110,060	$109,060
Total Expenses	$590,101	$595,848
Surplus (Deficit)	$3707	$ 12,768

	FY 2018	FY 2017
INCOME
Donations	$89,137	$93,907
Interest	$1468	$4
Total Income	$90,605	$93,911
EXPENSE
Professional Fee	$424	-
Construction	-	-
Architect	-	-
Furniture & Equip.	-	-
Mortgage	$82,858	$89,208
Total Expenses	$83,282	$89,208
Surplus (Deficit)	$7323	$4703

School

Cemetery

	FY 2018	FY 2017
INCOME
Tuition & Fees	$490,008	$420,554
Fundraising	$161,559	$163,319
Parish Subsidy	$200,177	$200,319
Other	$21,266	$27,459
Endowment Fund	-	$34,400
Total Income	$873,010	$846,051
EXPENSES
Personnel Costs	$647,066	$626,488
*Building	$121,891	$20,731
Instructional	$68,286	$69,287
Administration	$78,425	$66,642
Other	$5314	$5314
Total Expenses	$920,282	$788,462
Surplus (Deficit)	($47,912)	$57,589

	FY 2018	FY 2017
INCOME
Sales/Fees	$1520	$1695
Donations	$11,115	$5558
Other	$64	$17,563
Total Income	$12,699	$24,816
EXPENSES
Maintenance	$11,010	$8500
Fees	-	-
Other	$2115	$3047
Total Expenses	$13,125	$11,747
Surplus (Deficit)	($426)	$13,069

Note: St. Mary Catholic Church and School operates on a fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. This report is for the year
ending June 30, 2017. *School roof loan paid in full with excess reserve capital.

Our Parish Ministries &
Organizations:
Our financial resources support and foster numerous ministries and events through which we all unite in action, prayer, and worship. Some of these activities include
WORSHIP
Altar Servers
Bell Choir
Choir
Eucharistic Ministers
Hospitality Committee
Laundry Service
Lectors
Liturgy Committee
Cantors & Musicians
FAITH DEVELOPMENT
Bible Study
Confirmation Preparation
Eucharistic Adoration
Faith Formation Committee
Home & School Association
Living The Eucharist
Marriage Preparation
Parish School of Religion
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
Saint Mary’s School
St. Mary’s School Athletic Assoc.
School Board
Scouts
The Journey
Vacation Bible School
Youth Ministry
SERVICE
Bereavement Ministry
Clean Teams
Council of Catholic Women
Discipleship Committee
Funeral Dinners
Giving Tree
Hospital
Knights of Columbus
Maintenance Volunteers
Ministers to the Sick & Aged
Nursing
Pro-Life Committee
We Can Food Collections
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Soup Kitchen (spaghetti, sloppy joe)
Transportation

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St. Mary Catholic Church
2017-2018 Special Activities & Events

Giving Tree
St. Mary’s parishioners continue to help our communities neediest families make the celebration of the Lord’s birthday jolly.
Trunk or Treat The Halloween activity where we have so much fun it’s spooky.
CCW Bazaar
Chili lunch and craft fair to benefit the Council of Catholic Women.
Totus Tuus
The initial week-long summer youth camp was led by a team of 4 visiting young adults.
Taste of St. Mary’s
The annual event gets better each year. A night of great fun and great food.
First Sunday Lunches
These lunches were held after mass the first Sunday of most months as a way for us to get to know each other better.
Family Movie Night
Knights of Columbus began showing family movies Saturday evenings after
Mass (Popcorn Included!) School Raffle
St.Mary’s School’s most important fund-raiser of the year brought the school over $110,000 and meanwhile everyone had the best time imaginable.
Daystar Service Trip
Teenagers and adult volunteers from our parish helped those in need in
Cairo.
The Immaculate Conception Marked the feast of our patroness with Mass and the Night of Prayer of Life.
Mark Kabat Ordination
Mark became the first permanent
Deacon in the history of our parish to be ordained.
CCW Cookie Sale
The ladies of the church baked and sold delicious Christmas cookies after mass this past December.
Father John’s 50th Birthday and 20th Installation Anniversary Dinner
We helped Father celebrate these two great milestones with a fabulous dinner and fellowship!

Questions or Comments? Call ...

Fr. John Iffert, Pastor 244-1559
Mr. Brett Heinzman, Principal 242-5353
Mary Jo Pemberton, Trustee 242-2443
Reid Sipe, Trustee 246-8649
Susan Cunningham, Pastoral Council Chair 214-4604
Larry Long-Croteau, Finance Council Chair 242-9222
Brett Hall, School Board President 244-3040