Our pastor asked our finance council to update our community today on our financial status and project progress. As we begin 2022, many of challenges of the last 2 years continue. Fortunately, with your generous support and commitment, we continue to thrive, and our many ministries continue to serve the diverse needs of our parishes.

2021 presented us with both significant challenges and opportunities for CTK and St. Stephen parishes. From a finance standpoint, based on preliminary numbers, both CTK and St. Stephen parishes ended 2021 in good financial shape. We continue to be very blessed and grateful for the generosity of our parishioners and the careful stewardship of our staff. We will issue our annual summary by the end of February, once we close the books on 2021.

Looking forward, we completed all the major projects on our long-term capital plan with one exception…replacing the pavement for our parking lots. Both Christ the King and St. Stephen parishes have degrading parking lots and, in some areas are starting to fail from age and use. Our paving experts advise that the paving has reached the point where removal and replacement is recommended. This major project will need our parishioner’s help to raise the funds needed to undertake and complete this work.

We plan to combine the CTK and St. Stephen work into one project for economies of scale.  Rough estimates of total cost are $1 to $1.5 million. Later this month, we will be sending out a request asking you to pledge financial support for this project over a two-year period. While not a “glamorous” project, our pledges and contributions are critical to allow us to plan for the financial aspects of this project, which may require borrowing.

Fortunately, CTK and St. Stephen Parishes have completed all capital improvements to our respective facilities so far, with no debt. Ideally, with your support, we can also complete this paving project in 2022 without a need to borrow money.

1.  Data System Upgrade. Over the past two months we have been working to upgrade our 25-year-old Parish Data System to a modern, web enabled system called Realm. We use this system routinely to manage our parish membership and donation records as well as student records for our Religious Education program. Realm will allow us to provide you with an online account where you can login to view your information including donations, pledges, and balances. The new system will also enable the ability to register for events and classes, update your mailing and email address, and other data that help us in our ministries. We successfully upgraded the system before Christmas and are now learning all the details of how it works. Later this quarter we will email invitations for you to create your online account and check out the system. Of course, this is purely your choice and only needed if you want to take advantage of this system.

2.    New On-line Giving System. With this upgrade, we can merge our online giving system into the new system. Our current online giving system (Vanco) is owned by the same company that provides the Realm software, making our transition easier, as we can keep our current system in place while we transition to the new system. Stay tuned for more information on when this transition will start. We will only transition your Vanco online giving account with your agreement and participation.

3.  New Web Site Design. We have been working on redesigning and transitioning our current Web site to a new platform and design. We plan to introduce it in the next few weeks. The new platform will be connected to our weekly email newsletter and our Realm system, so we will have one system where we can keep our records and email addresses together. Since valid and current contact information is critical to good communication with our congregation, we continue with clean-up work to validate email addresses.  You will soon hear from us asking you to verify the email address you want us to use for parish communications.

Email:  Finance@ctkph.org

Mass: 6pm in the church

A message from Fr. Timoney:

Dear Friends, I take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year of peace and joy, full of God's blessings. I received many Christmas cards and gifts from you and I thank you for your graciousness, good wishes and kind gifts. I should be sending individual thank you notes, but am not. The reason being that my handwriting has deteriorated to being little more than a squiggly mess and a real chore. I hope you don't think me ungrateful and forgive me. I am deeply thankful for your kind words and gifts and ask God to reward you.

Sincerely in Christ,

Brian Timoney

 "Is anyone among you sick?  He should summon the presbyters of the Church and they should pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:14).

Parents: Rick and Jen Grand-Lejano

Baby: Emilia Rose

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Sacrament of Reconciliation - Private Confessions every Saturday from 3pm to 3:30pm, in the church.

Drive-Thru Holy Communion - Every Sunday 11:30am to 12 noon, in front of the church.

Thursday Mass - 6pm - Honoring our Mother of Perpetual Help, Rosary begins at 5:40pm, in the church. Worship Aide Here

Holy Rosary - Livestreamed on Facebook at 5:40pm, Monday - Friday

January 8/9 - Seminary Collection