Parish Bulletin Article: "6th Month Update"

Here is some updates from the last six months at St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Columban and our school. Enjoy!

St. Thomas Aquinas

·     2017 UCA was completed, when we sent the last check in April

·     Thanks to Dave Chute, we have continued to save dollars with cleaner and focused energy

·     We have saved a lot more dollars as our new rectory has way lower costs with less water, gas, electricity and property costs.  Again, thanks for agreeing our decision to place your pastor in a smaller rectory.

·     Our Grounds and Buildings group has been getting together to fix a few things: the fence, parking lot, a sign for our playground and removing the stumps around the Church.

St. Columban

·     2017 UCA was completed before December 31^st2017—great work!

·     A picnic and clean up afternoon as they worked together for their property

·     Great brunches at the end of each month

·     Some good decisions to shake up our financial and pastoral committees. 

St. Thomas Aquinas School

·     Hired our new Principal, Alison Fischbach, and we are excited to watch her grow our school with more students, more fundraising and more new family members to offer time, talent and treasure 

·     We have been preparing for 2018-2019 school year to add pre-school afternoon sessions on Monday-Wednesdays and also adding the 5^th-6^thgrade class.

·     We have many new families joining our family

Goals for the next six months:

·     St. Thomas Aquinas: pay off our 2018 UCA by December 31^st

·     St. Columban: continue to discern how the best way we can offer faith formation for our students

·     St. Thomas Aquinas: by the end of the summer, let’s get 60 students in our school!

Each of you, enjoy the directory that we received and, please, invite and welcome more people to fill our parishes at both Mass and Confession.

Thank you, brothers and sisters, for all the ways you support our family and community.  Keep rolling!

God Bless!