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2018/2019 St. Lawrence Annual Report 2019 2 0 1 8 / 2 0 1 9 ANNUAL REPORT THE YEAR IN REVIEW SAINT LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CHURCH www.catholicduluth.org FROM FR. RYAN The Annual Report for Saint Lawrence will reveal to you the great works we share in as a parish. Together we are building up our community and the Kingdom of God. The most striking number for me in this entire report is that we consecrated over 36,075 hosts for Holy Communion. Every occasion of someone receiving the Eucharist is a truly graced moment of being united to Jesus in the saving action of His death and resurrection. We believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist that we receive. That means you are united with the very physical presence of God when you receive the Eucharist. Much like the Ark of the Covenant in which the presence of God dwelt, every time a soul receives a Holy Communion in a state of grace they become a living ark, because the real presence of Jesus enters the body. The Eucharist is so true, good, and beautiful! You will see in these pages the great graces happening in our midst. Because of your love, giving, and prayers graces are flowing. You can be proud as a parishioner of the goodness in this report. Like the reading from Ezekiel 47 when the trickle of water flowing from the temple gradually becomes a life giving river, as a community of parishes life giving water is flowing. We are still the same community, but now in a reorganized structure. We are only at the beginning stages of a wonderful amount of life giving graces beginning to flow in refreshing ways. Allow these pages to be a point of reflection on how you are being fed by the life of the Sacraments and the Parish. Ask yourself how you can continue to share more abundantly in all of these graces. I am excited to share with you our first official Annual Report for Saint Lawrence Catholic Church. May God bless you and may Jesus Christ be praised! Peace in Christ, Fr. Ryan Moravitz Pastor St. Lawrence Annual Report (218) 722-2259 catholicduluth.org 01 BY THE NUMBERS DID YOU KNOW? Hosts Consecrated In a recent study from the Pew Research Center it was found that only 1/3rd of Catholics believe in the real presence of Jesus in the 36,075 Eucharist. Over the last year our community received Jesus' body, blood, soul, and divinity through Holy Communion 36,075 times! St. Joseph Registered Households New Families Families Joined as of 6/30/18 7/17-7/19 55 742 67 Confirmations Infant Baptisms First Communions 25 26 26 Funerals Marriages RCIA 23 13 8 St. Lawrence Annual Report (218) 722-2259 catholicduluth.org 02 MINISTRY SNAPSHOT Youth Registered For Faith Formation 283 XLT Night of 375 Adoration, Praise & Worship Totus Tuus 82 Faith Formation Leaders 36 8 Camp Survive 2018 Mission Trip 42 Dcn. Chico's Advent & 60 Lent Study Adult Faith Formation 34 Handmaids of the Heart of 4 Jesus St. Lawrence Annual Report (218) 722-2259 catholicduluth.org 03 WORKERS OF MERCY This past year, you or a loved one may have been in need of a work of mercy. You may have been in a hospital, or had a loved one past away. Maybe you can no longer get to Mass and you long for Holy Communion. You or someone you know may have been in need of assistance and you were helped through a work of mercy, acted upon by someone in our parish community. You may be someone who has performed a work of mercy to someone in need. You may have served a meal on a cold winter day to someone who needed it, or visited someone who is sick or homebound. Maybe you helped at a funeral or brought Holy Communion to someone. Did you know your contribution to the Art Pulford fund helped a homeless mother and her children get out of the cold for a week this past winter, or helped put food on a number of tables in our community? Whether you needed a work of mercy or shared in one, you in the parish community have participated in the building up of the kingdom of God. Thank you. May we continue to share God's Mercy with those around us! Salvation Army Serve Food Every 1st Monday Damiano Center 50 Winter Coats Donated Serve Food Every 4th Wednesday Homebound Ministry 12 Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers 100 Unique Individuals 9 Assisted Living Facilities & 2 Hospitals Over 6,000 Total Visits Art Pulford Fund For Families in Need $2,318.91 - Hotel Stays $200 - Laundry Assistance (30 individuals) $350 - Super One Gift Cards $375 - Gas Cards $1,500 - Snow Removal Food Shelf Donations Second Harvest Food Mission - $3,262.50 Union Gospel Mission - $500 St. Lawrence Annual Report (218) 722-2259 catholicduluth.org 04 FINANCAL REPORT Source of Funds Envelope and Plate Collections $356,994 Building Improvements $7,470 Investment Income $29,209 Youth Faith Formation Fees $6,021 Income from Restricted Funds $17,788 Flower Income $2,883 Misc. Income $13,067 TOTAL $433,432 Use of Funds Parish Administration $306,522 Liturgy $51,221 Religious Education $86,171 Convent $2,734 Rectory $47,044 Church Building $84,990 TOTAL $578,682 NET INCOME ($145,250) Our income from operations before extraordinary expense was $6,436. Ordinary revenue from Sunday plate, envelope, and electronic giving was up 7%. The Saint Lawrence Church Endowment provided earnings of $4,000 which were deposited in to the Sanctuary Fund. Capital improvements included seven security cameras with memory storage allowing the doors to be open for long periods of time for people to come and pray. Work on the rectory was also done to improve efficiency and overall living space. Black mold was also discovered along with a foundation problem, the mold has been removed and the foundation will be fixed this Fall along with a remodeling of the basement area. The diocesan bankruptcy payment of $151,686 was an extraordinary expense, that led to a net loss for the fiscal year of $145,250. Every parish in the Diocese of Duluth was asked to contribute 15% of unrestricted funds. The agreement made with this contribution was that the parish would receive a channeling injunction which will release us from any future claims that occurred prior to December 7, 2015. St. Lawrence Annual Report (218) 722-2259 catholicduluth.org 05 GIVING ANALYSIS PROFILE Annual Giving ORDINARY INCOME < $25 33 +7% From Last Year $26 - $100 51 $101 - $300 62 $301 - $500 50 $501 - $1,000 91 TOTAL CONTRIBUTING HOUSEHOLDS $1,001 - $2,000 73 401 $2,001 - $3,000 22 $3,001 - $5,000 8 $5,001 - $7,500 6 PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS > $7,501 5 CONTRIBUTING 0 25 50 75 100 54% # of Contributing Households AVERAGE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION 108 HOUSEHOLDS CONTRIBUTING BY PER CONTRIBUTING HOUSEHOLD ONLINE GIVING Online giving is fast, secure, and saves the parish time $18.68 every week in processing donations. Please consider giving electronically! AVERAGE ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION 63% OF PARISHIONERS ACCOUNT PER CONTRIBUTING HOUSEHOLD FOR 20% OF GIVING $971.76 37% OF PARISHIONERS ACCOUNT FOR 80% OF GIVING *All info is from July 1st, 2018 to June 30th, 2019 *General Collection & Special Giving (UCA, Building) * All giving is included by weekly amount St. Lawrence Annual Report (218) 722-2259 catholicduluth.org 06 YEAR OF COMMUNITY Our theme for the year ahead is community. Our Parish Cluster Picnic kicked off our Year of Community and it was a wonderful and blessed day as our parish community celbrated together. We are excited to get this year started and look forward to the ways that God blesses the upcoming year. As you have read in this report, there is much to be proud of in our community. Our parishes make a large impact and in the year ahead we want to intentionally build upon the foundation that has been laid. We look to continue working together, sharing visions, and carrying out the mission of our parishes. Looking forward, you can see some of the ways we are planning to grow our community this year. We are creating a new parish cluster directory, providing more days of Adoration, and having a Lenten soup cook-off. We are excited to share these future opportunities and we will provide information about these and other upcoming events as they become available. A large part of the Year of Community is your participation in it. We invite you to intentionally invest in our parish community. If you don't know the family that sits in front of you at Mass, please introduce yourself. Perhaps you can invite people from the parish community over for dinner or stay a couple extra minutes after Mass and socialize. We want you to be an initiating force for the year of community. Together we can accomplish great things and together we will. Parish Cluster Picnic We had a great kick-off to our year of community with the Parish Cluster Picnic on August 11th. During a time of change and the closing of St. Joseph's Church we were all able to come together, get to know one another, and celebrate as a community. This was a true example of building our parish community and we look forward in anticipation to the positivity and enthusiasm this brought to our parishes. We hope all who attended enjoyed the day and had the opportunity to meet members of our parish community. Thank you to all of the 600+ people who attended and look forward to it again next year! St.
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