New Personnel. We have finished the realignment process in the office due to the retirements of Mary Hart. Leticia Ortega, our receptionist has taken Mary’s position as Director of Faith Formation as previously announced. Diana Cornejo has taken the position of receptionist/secretary. She is a parishioner and goes to college part time online. She speaks English and Spanish and now our entire office is bilingual, an important asset is a parish that has so many Spanish-speaking parishioners. We welcome her to our staff!
Finances. Thanks to the generosity of so many of our parishioners, we continue to hold our own in the financial arena. We are spending less in maintenance and only on things that we really need. Recently, we had some repair and re-paving done in the parking lots. This money was taken from the savings account in Raleigh which I had established with the $50,000 that was left over after the construction of the church. The cost was $26,000. We are looking at proposing a program for electronic giving in the near future, which will make it more convenient for all of us.
Rev. Robert Ippolito, M.S.