Immaculate Conception Parish September 17, 2013 Agenda ! Church - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Immaculate Conception Parish September 17, 2013

Agenda ! Church attendance and challenges in the 21 st Century ! Profile of our parish over past 10 years ! Census ! Weekly Attendance ! $ contributions, etc. ! Review of Income and Expenses ! Review of our Ministries and Human Resources required ! Review of Buildings and Status ! Project Restoration ! Our Vision to recreate our Parish Community (Re-vitalization)

Church attendance and challenges in the 21 st Century

Church Attendance in the 21 st Century Plague on both their houses: The real story of growth and decline in liberal and conservative churches - ABC News RELIGION AND ETHICS, 8 MAY 2013 Why We're Leaving Church – Huffington Post News, 2012 Why is church attendance declining? Church is no longer a priority for younger families, which has turned many local congregations into a sea of gray hair with few young faces. - Wyoming News, 2012 Church attendance declining in Canada – CBC News Dec. 23, 2000 http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.htmlChurch For Sale – The Fall of The Catholic Church in Quehttp://www.montrealgazette.com/index.htmlbec by R.J. Galbraithhttp://www.thestar.com/ The collapse of the liberal http://thestar.com/church - The Globe and Mail, July 2012 MARGhttp://www.montrealgazette.com/index.htmlARET WENTE The future of the Church: Brian Bethune on demographics, ongoing scandals and the divide between secular and Catholic morality - McLeans Brian Bethune Saturday, March 23, 2013 Empty Churches, full of history – University Affairs, Montreal, Quebec

Church attendance and challenges in the 21 st Century ! Declining attendance ! Aging parishioners – 60+yrs. ! Aging clergy – 65 yrs. ! Insufficient resources (people, clergy, revenue, ministries, etc.)

Profile of our parish over past 10 years ! Census ! Weekly Attendance ! $ contributions, etc.

Parish Statistics 2002-2012 Census 2010-2011 Spaniard’s Bay 144 Upper Island Cove 72 Riverhead 486 Hr. Grace 399 Parish Deaths 2011 -16 Parish Deaths 2012 -20 Parish Births 2011 +14 Parish Births 2012 +11 Total Parishioners 1100

Parish Statistics 2002-2012 YEAR DEATHS BAPTISM/OOP 2002 24 30/4 2003 31 15/3 2004 20 25/9 2005 19 23/4 2006 28 25/12 2007 17 22/7 2008 18 37/9 2009 21 20/5 2010 20 19/10 2011 16 22/8 2012 20 15/4 AVERAGE 21 16

PARISH CONTRIBUTORS NUMBER OF ENVELOPES DISTRIBUTED 320 NUMBER OF ENVELOPES RETURNED 294 BY THE NUMBERS: $ AMOUNT # OF % OF TOTAL AVG. WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTION /YEAR $1-300 136 46% ~$5.00 $301-600 101 34% ~$10.00 $601-900 28 10% ~$20.00 $901+ 29 10% ~$20.00+

Review of Income and expenses

10 YEAR HISTORY OF PARISH INCOME/EXPENSES YEAR INCOME EXPENSES 2002 $183,369 $182,213 2003 $157,714 $142,774 2004 $140,408 $129,517 2005 $161,799 $165,713 2006 $164,080 $163,872 2007 $165,437 $158,154 2008 $166,944 $147,568 2009 $166,650 $147,568 2010 $168,130 $168,227 2011 $164,296 $167,415 2012 $161,389 (182,279) $180,391 AVERAGE ~$165,000 ~$162,000

TYPICAL YEARLY EXPENSES ($162,000) EXPENSE TYPE AMOUNT (APPROX.) PERCENTAGE DIOCESE FEES $10,000 6% INSURANCE $29,000 18% PRIEST SALARY $17,000 10% LAY SALARY $24,000 15% PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS $11,000 7% REPAIRS/MAINT . $19,000 12% OFFICE/CHURCH $10,000 6% SUPPLIES GROCERY/HOUSEHOLD $6,000 4% HEAT AND LIGHT $21,000 13% PHONE/FAX $3,000 2% TRAVEL/AUTO $2,600 2%

PARISH INCOME/EXPENSES Y-T-D 2013 Income $105,865 (tracking towards ~$165,000 by year end) General Exp. $108,334 Furnace $39,550 (Immaculate Conception Church) Insurance $20,926 (Total cost is ~$29,000) TTL Expenses $168,810 GIC in value of $31,926 cashed to assist in covering deficit for purchasing a new furnace. ~$105,000 in GIC remains in reserve

PARISH BUILDINGS and STATUS ! St. Joseph’s Church ! St Joseph’s Hall ! St. Anne’s Church ! Sacred Heart Church ! Immaculate Conception Church ! Academy Hall ! Rectory Hr. Grace

St. Joseph’s Church and Hall, Riverhead • Both are old wooden structures: Church is c.1886, Hall c.1929 • Last major updates to church were 1987 (windows/ siding) and 1994 (tower) • Hall currently is vacant and is felt to be in disrepair Estimated needed repair/ Updating: Entrance doors replaced, leak in tower? Cost TBD

St Anne’s Church, Spd’s Bay • Most recent church c.1973 • Last major update ~1993 (new roof) Estimated needed repairs/updating: carpet and drapery replacement/rear wall replacement due to dampness (mold?) and new windows and siding Cost TBD

Sacred Heart Church, U.I.Cove ! Small aging wooden structure ! Limited current usage (not used in past 2+ years) ! Roof not shingled in 45 years

Immaculate Conception Church, Hr. Grace • Large stone building built in 1892 • Major repair of towers in 1963 • Under restoration since ~1987 • To-date $3.5MM spent on restoration ~50% government grants ~50% donations • 2013 Gov. grant $85,000 • New furnace 2013 • Recognized Provincially as a Registered Heritage Structure • ~$150,000 in reserve Estimate to complete restoration TBD (possibly $3-5MM±)

Academy Hall, Hr. Grace ! Old wooden structure c.1882 ! Currently houses K of C (bar and council chambers) and a hall ! Current expenses are: ! insurance ! water and sewage

Rectory, Hr. Grace ! Built c.1985/6 ! Houses clergy accommodation, parish office, small chapel and St. Vincent d’ Paul Needed upgrades: Carpet/flooring/external entrances/windows/ HVAC system Cost TBD

Parish Context 2013 ! Three somewhat independent congregations (Hr. Grace, Riverhead, Spaniard’s Bay/Upper Island Cove) ! Each requiring independent resources (Readers, Eucharistic Ministers, Offertory, Sacristans, Bereavement Ministry, Treasurers and Buildings) ! Small number of regular church attendees ~225± ! Aging church attending congregation in each community (majority 60+)

Parish Context 2013 (cont’d) ! Leadership fatigue (especially in the area of fund raising, and in ministries) ! Mainly in a “maintenance existence” ! Aging infrastructure of buildings all needing major repair/upkeep ! “A dying parish”

OUR SHARED FUTURE 1. Recreate our community Possibilities: ! Learn to live as one community rather than three diversified communities tied to a community/building. The parish is much more than the church(s), and the parishioners who attend mass. ! Pool our resources and experiment with functioning as a one point (mobile) community. Eg. “One Mass” on Sunday morning at a set time, one week in Spd’s Bay, next week Riverhead, next week Hr. Grace and then rotate. Thereby pooling our resources and creating one community.

OUR SHARED FUTURE 1. Recreate our community Possibilities: ! Create a Music Ministry to take place at the “One Sunday Mass”. Instilling celebration of the liturgy. ! Create a Children’s Liturgy to take place at the “One Sunday Mass”. ! Create a program of adult Christian education (Eg. Alpha) so as to help build the community.

OUR SHARED FUTURE Housing the Church 2. Possibilities: ! Decisions on what to do with existing buildings and how to house the new “one congregation parish” with a single home. Do we sell, retain, if sell, what next? Remain with existing other and update? Build a new structure? ! Create a Ways/Means to fund raise and encourage further growth in contributions so as to remain viable.

OUR SHARED FUTURE 3. Move from a “maintenance mode” to a growth and more “outreach” mode Possibilities: ! Create efforts to help our community through collective efforts to assist the disabled, the deprived, the abused, and the marginalized persons in our community, those facing bereavement, depression, drug abuse, sick and infirmed. Again regardless of their “faith affinity”. ! Resource parishioners (especially younger) regardless of mass attendance to travel and work in Third World Countries to assist with development efforts, or needing person in our own community.

OUR SHARED FUTURE 3. Move from a “maintenance mode” to a growth and more “outreach” mode Possibilities: ! Move from a solely priest-centered model in favor of a more collaborative model of persons in ministries. With the role of the priest as co-ordinator and ensuring the more reserved are growing and the more naturally powerful do not dominate. Respecting of course Canon Law. ! Create within the Ministry teams the drive that evolutionary change should not wait until not changing is more painful than changing.

Any Questions/ Thoughts/or Conclusions?

Immaculate Conception Church We have been approached by a third party with an expression of interest to purchase the building/land It is an expression of interest and no decision has been made The expression of interest is confidential