Our Needs

Worship Space Needs

Seating Expansion

• Our church’s original building plans included 200 more seats that were ultimately eliminated due to prioritizing other needs and cost considerations.
• Today, church seating is often insufficient, especially during summer months when attendance dramatically expands.  
• Overflow seating along the back aisle creates safe emergency exit problems and forces people to walk on the floor vents, which damages them.

Lighting and Flooring

• Our church’s canister lights point straight down. This creates shadows that makes it difficult to see and read in the worship space.
• The carpeting, which is original to the building, is torn, frayed, and stained – it is worn out.  

Other Needs

New Multi-Use Chapel

• Building a Daily Mass Chapel was discussed as part of our original church building plans but was deferred due to its cost.
• Daily Mass, Eucharistic adoration, smaller weddings, funerals, and wakes are now held in the church. Heating and cooling the large worship space for these small gatherings is not cost-effective. It also doesn’t offer the more intimate environment these gatherings warrant.
• We are unable to hold more than one sacred service or activity at the same time because we have only one reverent worship space.

Expanded Restrooms

• We currently only have three toilets convenient to the narthex, one each in our family, women’s, and men’s restrooms.
• These limited restroom facilities sometimes results in long wait lines. This is not a welcoming situation for our members and visitors, especially for young children and seniors.
• The restroom décor and fixtures are dated and need to be updated.

Covered Sidewalk

Our church entrance is open to the weather and a long walk from the parking lot. This is unwelcoming and especially challenging on inclement weather days.

Bell Tower

A steeple or bell tower is a traditional church symbol. St. Anthony lacks such a striking, architecturally significant identity that can be used to summon people together for shared services.

Parking Lot

Our parking lot requires a lot of repairs but it is no longer viable to continually patch and fill continuously developing potholes and growing cracks.