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DISASTER Relief
Collections for
Catholic Relief Services:
Checks are made Payable To: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
CATHOLIC CHURCH,
FOR: Catholic Relief Services (CRS) disaster relief.
See Catholic Relief
Servicesfor more information.
To HELP VICTIMS OF any disaster emergency that takes
place in the United States... Catholic
Charities USA is our American Catholic organization which is helping
victims of any disaster emergency relief in the United States. Catholic
Charities USA collects financial donations to help communities
recover from the devastation brought on by emergency disasters. Donations
will be used to fund local Catholic Charities agencies' emergency and long
term disaster recovery efforts in areas hit by the disaster.
You may contribute in one of two ways:
Place your donation (payable to St Francis)
in an envelope and mark the envelope "USA Disaster". Put the envelope in
the Sunday collection or send it to the parish office. We will forward
one combined donation.
Or, Send a donation payable to Catholic
Charities USA; and designate it for the USA Disaster relief.
Mail to: Catholic Charities USA, PO Box 25168, Alexandria, VA 22313-9788
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For all of these
Special Collecitons:
1- an announcement is published in the weekly parish
bulletin Forum.
2- an announcement is submitted & read at all weekend
Masses.
Contact:
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Volunteers Needed to put together a display
of information (perhps a poster).
Examples:
1- at the door of church before or after Masses (all
six Masses on the weekend).
2- in the Parish Activities Center during coffee and
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Special Collections
Purpose:
St. Francis Parish community members are generous in supporting the
poor in many ways. Our parish encourages members to give what they
can to these special needs.
See
the FORUM, the Parish weekly newsletter for collection information.
We may consider having a special
collection for an organization. See the application
request for a special collection with St.
Francis Parish.
Special Collections Scheduled (subjet
to change):
(Here is a
list of collections, whos dates are set by The DIOCESE OF LANSING
and envelops are in the St. Francis parishoner's packet.)
(The Special
Collection Planning Page is at: specialcollectionplanning.htm)
NOTES: "*"CLICK
HERE for an explantion of notes.
November 2009-------- --------------------
November 15, 2009 - *St.
Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
November 22, 2009 (Sunday before
Thanksgiving) ***CCHD
Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
December 2009"*"(NO
Special Collection due to number of other giving programs at this time.
Wait.
Assume
"closed".)
December 13, 2009, (second
Sunday of December) ***
National Retirement
Fund for Religious.
January 2010-------- --------------------
January , 2009 (LAST Sunday
of January - last Sunday of January)***Worldwide
Evangelization Appeal (Church in Latin America, Holyland, Eastern
& Central Europe & Africa)
(The January collection for World Wide Evangelization includes
4 instead of doing these separately: Latin America, Church in Eastern
& Central Europe, Holy Land and the Church in Africa.) "Worldwide
Evangelization Appeal" for the Church in Latin America. (It used
to be called simply "Worldwide Evangelization Appeal". And, our St. Francis
Parish member envelope packets still include the old name.)
Or, www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
January 17, 2010 - *Interfaith
Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)
February 2010-------- --------------------
LENT = February 17 - March 31, 2010 -
*Special
Project – “Carbon Fast”
Febaruary 21, 2010 (1st
Sunday of Lent) ***Black
and Indian Missions www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
March 2010-------- --------------------
March 14, 2010 (“Laetare Sunday”
Fourth Sunday of Lent) ***Catholic
Relief Services Collection Or, www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
April 2010-------- --------------------
2010 - April 1, 2010, Holy
Thurday - *
May 2010-------- --------------------
Do not schedule a Special Collection in May.
The Diocesan Services
Appeal (DSA) is still on.
June 2010-------- --------------------
June 20, 2010 *Holy
Cross Children's Services, a member of Boysville of Michigan, Inc..
June - September (Mutually agreed between
pastor & Missionary) - *** Mission Cooperative
Appeal (No envelope for this.) (In 2010 perhaps it might be Maryknoll Lay
Missionaries in Bolivia?)
July 2010-------- --------------------
July 18, 2010, *St.
Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
November 21, 2010 (Sunday before
Thanksgiving) ***CCHD
Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
August 2010-------- --------------------
August 15, 2010 - *HOPE
Medical CLINIC, Inc.
August (Second Sunday in August)
***Peter's
Pence (Collection for the Holy Father) www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
September 2010 - *(NO
Special Collection due to TIME & TALENT + FAITH appeal.)
September 5th or 12th, 2010 (1st
or 2nd Sunday of Sept.) (their own mailing,
so, no envelopes)
***Help
Spread the FAITH - Annual Evangelization Appeal, FAITH
Magazine. (Catholic
University of America)
October 2010-------- --------------------
October 17, 2010, *Pregnancy
Help Center, Arbor Vitae Women's Center.
October 24, 2010 (Next to last
Sunday in Oct.) ***World
Mission Sunday
November 2010-------- --------------------
November 21, 2010, *St.
Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
November 21, 2010 (Sunday before
Thanksgiving) ***CCHD
Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
December 2010 "*"(NO
Special Collection due to number of other giving programs at this time.
Wait.
Assume
"closed".)
- Organizations we were unable to
schedule in 2009.
2011? Perhaps?- *SOS
Community Services: On
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:48 PM, our Peace & Justice Committe wrote:
Barbara Lessnau Cecil ... Barbara, The St. Francis Peace and Justice
Committee reviewed our Special Collection calendar for 2009 and the SOS
application for a Special Collection. We certainly appreciate all the
wonderful work that SOS does in our community. Unfortunately, we
have had an increase in requests and were unable to schedule SOS for a
collection in 2009.
2011? Perhaps?- *Friends
in Deed (FID). On Wed,
Sep 9, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Friends In Deed application ...
2011? Perhaps early.
maybe January??- *Habitat
for Humanity, This was discussed on
Monday, October 26, 2009.
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See the Special Collection Planning
Page at: specialcollectionplanning.htm
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History &
Past Special Collections List: CLICK HERE.
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NOTES: "*"
AN EXPLANATION
"*" = St. Francis
Social Ministry Office
sets dates for these collections
and envelops are placed in the church pews. (Normally the date is
on the third Sunday of the month.)
"**1"
= Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County (This
is a 3 month appeal period which is November 1 through January 31)
the pastor sets the date for the parish to make this appeal and envelops
are stapled into the St. Francis' bulletin FORUM.
"**2"
= St. Francis School Development Office sets date for this collection
and envelops are stapled into the St. Francis' bulletin FORUM.
"***"
= DIOCESE OF LANSING (& www.nccbuscc.org)
sets dates for these collections and envelops are in the St. Francis parishoner's
packet. Why
do we have National Collections?
(Here is a
list of collections, whos dates are set by The DIOCESE OF LANSING
and envelops are in the St. Francis parishoner's packet.)
"* Possible:
_________."=
we may consider having a special collection for an organization (listed
here) that has requested a special collection with St. Francis
Social Ministry Office.
Contact the Parish Social
Ministry Office,
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St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Parish Social
Ministry Office,
2150 Frieze Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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