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As our church approaches its 120th anniversary, imagine all those who have knelt in the sanctuary to pray over the years. At times there were prayers for needed rain. Blessed rain came. Both blessings in their own rite, the prayers and the rain have impacted our beautiful church. The kneelers and the pews are well-worn from the prayers and are in need of restoration. The needed rain over the years has corroded the gutters, taxed roofs, heaved pavement, and changed the flow of drainage, eroding the very foundation of our church. For the sake of our beautiful sanctuary we must act now to restore and preserve. We as parishioners and shareholders in the faith will be invited to participate in claiming the future of St. Patrick Catholic Church through a capital campaign. In brief, as listed below, over 70% of this campaign will provide loving care to the physical place in which we pray with a focused effort on diverting damaging rainfall. The intention is to restore and preserve our historic church. Our goals include the following:
- Remove, repair, refinish, reupholster, and reinstall the pews
- Replace the kneelers
- Install uniform flooring throughout while pews are out of the Church (a one-time chance)
- Repair/replace leaking roofs, gutters and spouting
- Regrade and install drainage surfaces/curbs/drains to control water flow away from church foundation, and rehabilitation of the water-damaged courtyard
- Repair internal and external damage to buildings and property caused by drainage issues
The remaining 30% of the campaign is focused on improving the safety & security of our church grounds including fencing, accessibility to buildings, as well as numerous repairs of aging assets.
In all, we could see this restoration and preservation effort costing as much as $1.8 million. As part of our due diligence, we are bringing in a professional project manager to assess, engineer, and document a competitively bid scope of work. A refined estimate will be made available to the parish and diocese before any work is begun.
Glory be to our church, as it was in its beginning, is now, and as it will be for generations to come, Amen. -
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