July 7, 2022
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Peace Be With You!
Despite the many challenges we have
been faced with during the pandemic, our life in St. John was never
put to a full stop. We continued to celebrate our faith life in the
midst of the lockdowns and emergency evacuations. We all made it
through because we continued to hold on to our faith and never showed
any signs of discouragement.
As parishioners of St. John, you
continually show active support to our church either by remotely
participating in the liturgies or actively joining in-person in all
of our liturgical celebrations and some recently held social events.
It is our common prayer today that Our
Lord will fully free us from the Covid-19 virus and its variants. In
the meantime, I can only count the blessings our church continues to
receive even during this pandemic.
I am personally and sincerely grateful
to all of you for your generous support in which we have been able to
accomplish the projects necessary for the upkeep and maintenance of
our church. There have been two major accomplishments that are
notable to mention:
First is the exterior repainting of our
church building. It was during the lockdown that we completed this
project.
Second is the solar energy panels. They
are now up and running and giving us an efficient supply of
electricity on a daily basis.
Meanwhile our Finance Council and I
have been deeply concerned about the conditions of our Church Hall.
Even before the pandemic started, we had been planning to improve its
deteriorating conditions. To realize our plan, we came up with the
following proposals that are strategically broken into sub-proposals
to spread out the cost of the entire project:
First Phase - Removal of classroom
panels; tear down the dividing walls on the ceiling to open up the
beams. Total estimated amount - $8,500.00
Second Phase - Interior repainting;
this includes labor intensive preparation for the walls, beams and
minor replacements of the tiles in the ceiling. This will include the
kitchen, bathrooms and the Fran Regain Room. Total estimated amount -
$ 23, 840.00
Third Phase - Replacement of the
flooring; this will include the bathrooms, kitchen and the Fran
Regain Room. Total estimated amount - $34,822.00
Grand Total - $ 67,162.00
And lastly we will also be upgrading
all of our lightings to LED.
You may have noticed that we already
started the First Phase since it does not need a huge amount to cover
its cost. With your generous support we can raise the amount of funds
needed to proceed to the repainting of the walls and beams.
We are hoping to implement all of the
proposals as soon as we are able to gather the necessary amount of
funds towards the completion of our Church Hall.
Fraternally yours,
Fr. Roy
Pastor
