We had a great fund raising evening last night at St Joseph's University parish for the UB South Campus Ministry. The evening was a tasting event that included wine, beer, food, desserts, cider and a whole lot more. Many items were up for auction as well. I even scored a pair of prime Buffalo Sabres seats for a not-so hefty sum.
It's impressive that the "regular parishioners" have made such a huge commitment to Campus Ministry. They bring in a lot of donors and the entire parish comes to the event to support students that many of them don't even know. They've also entrusted that money to me, in a way, to do programming that would be worth the investment that they have made. It's humbling and a huge challenge.
In 1991, the diocese asked the parish to become a University Parish and it would have been very easy for the parish to balk at that prospect. But they didn't. They took on the challenge of that merge extremely well and made a commitment to be part of something bigger.
Their commitment shows. Now my job begins with the search for new and better student leadership and further engagement with different programming for the students.
Special thanks goes to Marianna Moffitt and her family for not merely taking the lead in putting this fund raiser together but for making it an elegant event and doing all of the work to pull it off. She is a dynamo and we are thankful to have someone so generous with her time and resources working for the needs of the students.
Today let us pray for all of those benefactors who serve the needs of ministry and often go unseen. We need you. We need your talent and your time and yes, we need your dollars too.
Think about donating to your favorite ministry today...
And then go do it.
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