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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 .

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:


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 donuts on Sunday. 

 
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):
(The Special Collection Planning Page is at: specialcollectionplanning.htm)

  • NOTES: "*"CLICK HERE for an explantion of notes.
  • --------------------  --------June 2008--------  --------------------
  • June 15, 2008, *HOPE CLINIC
  • --------------------  --------July 2008--------  --------------------
  • July 20, 2008, *Friends in Deed (FID).
  • --------------------  --------August 2008--------  --------------------
  • August (Second Sunday in August) ***Peter's Pence (Collection for the Holy Father)  www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
  • August 17,  2008, *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
  • --------------------  --------September 2008--------  --------------------
  • September 7th or 14th (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)
  • September 2008 - *(NO Special Collection due to TIME & TALENT + FAITH appeal.) 
  • --------------------  --------October 2008--------  --------------------
  • October 19, 2008 (Next to last Sunday in Oct.) ***World Mission Sunday
  • October 19,  2008, *Pregnancy Help Center (PHC).
  • --------------------  --------November 2008--------  --------------------
  • November 23, 2008 (Sunday before Thanksgiving) ***CCHD Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
  • November 16, 2008, *:St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
  • --------------------  --------December 2008--------  --------------------
  • December 14, 2008 (2nd Sunday in December) ***Retirement Fund for Religious
  • December 2008, "*"(NO Special Collection due to number of other giving programs at this time. Wait. Assume "closed".) 
  • --------------------  --------January 2009--------  --------------------
  • January 18, 2009, - *Outpatient Oncology Chaplaincy at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. www.sjmercyhealth.org/  or www.trinity-health.org/
  • January , 2009 (4th Sunday of January - last Sunday of January)***Church in Latin America ***"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
  • --------------------  --------February 2009--------  --------------------
  • February  2009 Ash Wednesday  - ***Aid to the Church in Central & Eastern Europe  www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml

    • February  2009 (1st Sunday of Lent) ***Black and Indian Missions www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
  • --------------------  -------- Proposed for 2009--------  --------------------
  • 2009 - *POSSIBLY?Habitat for Humanity Catholic House.
  • 2009 - February 22- April 5, 2009, A LENTEN Drive starts on Sunday (2/22/2008) prior to Ash Wed (2/25/2008) and goes until Palm Sunday (4/5/2008).
  • 2009 - April 9, 2009, Holy Thurday - *Help "AIDS Survivors 
  • 2009 - *POSSIBLY? HOPE Medical CLINIC, Inc.   Date:  May 30, 2008, Hope Clinic's application From: "Cathy Robinson"   .
  • 2009 - *POSSIBLY? Friends in Deed (FID).  Date:  June 5, 2008, Friends-in-Deed's application From: "Kirstin Bohac".
  • 2009 - *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
  • 2009 - *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.

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  • See the Special Collection Planning Page at: specialcollectionplanning.htm
  • --------------------  --------------------  --------------------

    • 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?
    "* 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,  .
    St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Parish Social Ministry Office, 
    2150 Frieze Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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