2016 Annual Report
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“Anyone who enters will experience the love of God …” POPE FRANCIS “Anyone who enters will experience the love of God …” POPE FRANCIS sh hful ow t it he fa lo he v t e g o f in C p h l r e i s H t THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION 2016 a letter from our bishop My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the earthly world, an endowment fund allows us to continue to share our gifts and help to grow the faith. The Holy Father has called us to this Extraordinary Consider the message of the Gospel according to Luke, Jubilee of Mercy. He prayed, may the Mother of God “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” open our eyes, so that we may comprehend the task to which we have been called and may she obtain for us the In honor of this Year of Mercy, I encourage you to grace to experience this Jubilee of Mercy as faithful and consider a gift to an endowment fund at The Catholic fruitful witnesses of Christ. Foundation and allow your generosity to proclaim the faith far into the future. From its beginning over 30 years ago, and especially this past year, The Catholic Foundation has been an May God continue to bless and keep you. With every expression of the faithful and fruitful witnesses of Christ best wish, I remain, for the needs in our Diocese of Columbus. Sincerely yours in Christ, The Catholic Foundation was established to encourage generous faithful Catholics to support these ongoing MOST REVEREND needs by sharing their own resources through an FREDERICK F. CAMPBELL, D.D., PH.D. endowment fund. Even when we are no longer present our mission In Christ, The Catholic Foundation inspires giving and assists donors to provide for the long-term needs of the Diocese of Columbus. our four The Catholic Foundation focuses its funding pillars in four pillars of our Catholic faith: Parish Life, Catholic Education & Faith Formation, Social Services and Vocations. keep your gifts The Catholic Foundation is the only foundation in our faith in the Diocese of Columbus that invests your gifts in alignment with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Our portfolios follow the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops investment policies, and we carefully screen all charitable organizations that we fund to make sure they also follow Catholic teachings. a letter from the president & ceo Dear Friends, As I reflect on an outstanding year of many blessings, I’m once again humbled by the support of our Catholic community. In just these past 5 years, nearly $100 million have come into The Catholic Foundation, including over $24 million of contributions this year. Additionally, in this Year of Mercy, the Foundation distributed 1,360 grants amounting in over $10 million to support our four pillars: Parish Life, Vocations, Catholic Education and Social Services. This is truly a testament to the faithful in our diocese strengthening their commitment to keeping their gifts in the faith. While we are blessed by this charity and support, the true value of these funds is demonstrated through the lives we are able to touch and the resulting impact here in the Diocese. God’s real mercy, His blessings, are upon the souls touched by the fruits through The Catholic Foundation. Those souls, they are the poor and hungry, the homeless, the imprisoned, those wanting to learn, wanting to be healed, and those wanting to live a life in Jesus Christ. And, these souls are touched, loved, and cared for, through corporal and spiritual works of the many parishes, schools, and ministries in our diocese. For example, 25 parishes will receive funding through The Catholic Foundation to hire youth ministers. In just the next 5 years, over 15,000 young souls from these parishes will build a relationship with Jesus Christ and carry that relationship with them for the rest of their lives. Additionally, in this year alone, grants that help support adult faith formation programs will touch the souls of 72,000 individual adults in the diocese. Funding from The Catholic Foundation to help support just three diocesan seminarians, the supposed average in an ordination class, will bring God’s mercy to more than 250,000 parishioner souls from those future priests over the next 25 years. Funding from The Catholic Foundation for the corporal works of mercy of St. Vincent de Paul Clothing Center will provide 25,000 pairs of underwear just this year, and support for St. Lawrence Haven will provide over 2 million meals to the souls who are poor, homeless and hungry in the next 25 years. I would like to extend my gratitude to you for your continued support of our Catholic faith through The Catholic Foundation. We hope it is evident that your gifts are helping to ignite transformational change. I encourage you to consider how best to support your parish or Catholic ministry, and the role that the Foundation can play in your giving plan. With your help and with Christ as our guide, The Catholic Foundation will continue to be a resource for the future of our faith and our diocese. In Christ, LOREN P. BROWN our patron saint st. john fisher St. John Fisher was the Bishop of Rochester and Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. He Chancellor of Cambridge. He was executed by King became closely associated with her endowments Henry VIII for actively opposing the king’s divorce and for at Cambridge, where he also created scholarships, refusing to take the oath of succession acknowledging introduced Greek and Hebrew into the curriculum and Henry as the legitimate heir to the throne. His feast day brought in the world-famous Erasmus as a professor of is June 22. Divinity and Greek. St. John Fisher was dedicated to the welfare of his St. John Fisher was named the patron saint of The diocese and his university. He was named proctor of Catholic Foundation by Bishop Campbell. Cambridge University, and appointed confessor to let the word of christ dwell in you: sharing christ’s love with our youth A beacon of light overlooks a stretch of Mound “It’s really special. I like giving [Eucharist] out to Street, deep in the Hilltop of Columbus. other people,” she explained. Outreach ministries pepper the area and an adjacent park offers a space for children to play; Emily, a fourth grader, enjoys making new this is an area not at all forgotten by God. In fact, friends and helping others. At St. Agnes’s Works St. Agnes Catholic Church boasts a growing of Mercy Camp this summer, the children helped parish community, highlighted by a flourishing to make sandwiches for St. Lawrence Haven, as youth ministry program. well as rosaries and sit-upons for the homeless. They heard from many guest speakers, including “The Catholic Foundation helped St. Agnes Yeison “Yayyooo” Berdugo, a motivational Parish show the love of Christ by giving us speaker for youth. the resources that enable us to feed the mind, body and soul of our young people,” said Cindy “The best part of camp was when Yeison came,” Oddi, Youth Minister/Catechetical Leader at St. Emily said. “He talked about what we want to be Agnes Parish, St. Aloysius Parish and St. Mary when we grow up.” Magdalene Parish. “The youth ministry program at St. Agnes hopes In a parish community that is 98% Hispanic, to give youth the tools to become tomorrow’s youth ministry looks much different than it leaders, and to become active, participating might in other parish communities, Cindy members of the parish and the community at explained. Transportation and other financial large,” Cindy added. strains make it difficult for families to commit to weekly youth activities. Instead, Cindy makes The parish is growing, and along with that, sure to connect with them through social media participation in Mass is increasing. Since or in small groups, in addition to meeting as a receiving a grant for a full-time youth minister larger group after Mass. last year, the number of registered youth increased 40%, from 89 to 125, and regular Mass Two sisters, Daniella and Emily, find a way to attendance of the youth increased by 50%. participate in as many youth activities Additionally, the number of youth attending PSR as possible. classes increased by 82%, from 22 children to 40. “For the older youth, we’re giving them the Mercy is in motion, with God ever-present in this opportunity to take on leadership positions,” community. St. Agnes Catholic Church shines on Cindy said. Mound Street, His light radiating from its doors. Daniella, a high school sophomore, frequently helps with the Children’s Liturgy of the Word and hopes to also train to become an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. “It’s really special. I like giving Eucharist out to other people ... ” The Catholic Foundation, in partnership with the Diocesan Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry, awarded Youth Ministry grants to five parishes in the inaugural year of the program. Looking back on the first year, the overall outcomes for youth within these five parishes are astounding. 3900% 1100% 511% 350% 333% 375% 140% increase in increase in increase in increase in increase in increase in increase in bible study parent choir music counseling crisis catholic extraordinary participation support participation referrals support leadership ministers Watch Sara’s video testimonial at catholic-foundation.org/Sara he heals the brokenhearted: faith comforts a mother’s sorrow An old farmhouse sits upon a hill in Newark, “We decided to set up a fund in memory of my overlooking sprawling fields and a beautiful son,” she said.