Facility & Capital Improvements

Parish Center

• Roof Replacement. The original, 36-year-old flat ballast-style roof is many years past its life span and beyond repair.
• Window Refinishing, Repair & Replacement. We replaced glass but the 36-year-old windows leak water and air, are rotting, rusting, and are not cost- or energy-efficient.
• Exterior Tuckpointing. The exterior’s mortar is deteriorating which can allow structural and interior water damage.

Church & Narthex

• New Sound System. Our old, obsolete sound system does not provide good, clear sound and cannot be repaired.
• Lighting System Upgrades. Our computerized church and narthex lighting system is at the end of its life cycle and repair parts are no longer manufactured. Our To Teach Who Christ Is money retrofitted the narthex light fixtures, but the main church and chapel lighting is old, costly to run, and energy-inefficient.
• HVAC System Upgrades. The narthex’s east side system was installed in 2015 and needs a new blower system. The west side’s original system is nearing the end of its useful life and not energy-efficient. Both systems contain refrigerants now restricted by the Clean Air Act.
• Church Entry Canopy Repair. The front entry’s 1980 wood canopy is in serious need of repair and repainting.
• Narthex Kitchen Door Frame Replacement. The narthex kitchen’s rusted metal door frame needs to be replaced.
• Expanded Security. Our Parish Center is monitored by building perimeter security cameras. For the safety of our resident priests, staff, volunteers and guests the system needs to expand to the Administration Offices and Church perimeters, especially the east side handicapped entry and parking lot.
• Future Church Infrastructure Improvements. We celebrated our first mass in the new church in November 2005. Within five to seven years the roof, carpeting, paint, and furnishings will need to be replaced.    

Church Office

• Exterior Tuckpointing. The building’s mortar is deteriorating and could allow water to cause structural and interior damage.
• Door Frame Replacement. The rusted window and front door frame makes the door difficult to open, close, and lock.
• Lower-Level Flooring Replacement. The lower-level flooring is water-damaged, missing tiles, unsanitary and unsafe.

Rectory

New HVAC System. The rectory’s 24-year-old system is not cost- or energy-efficient and is becoming increasingly more expensive to service and maintain.

Storage Building

Roof Replacement. Our outdoor furniture ministry and landscaping storage building's roof is past its useful life. Leaks caused by broken and missing shingles have
damaged some of our stored materials.

Other Facility

• Sidewalk Repairs. Our cracking, heaving, and buckling sidewalks are both unsightly and unsafe.
• Bell Tower Repairs.  The east side bell tower is original to the parish campus and the bell, base, and wooden cross on top need to be repaired.

Equipment   

• New Tractor. Our aging tractor is increasingly expensive to maintain. It also does not meet current EPA
  emission standards and is too expensive to retrofit to comply.
• New Power Lift. We do not have a safe and effective way to reach our facility’s heights for maintenance and repairs.

Program & Personnel Improvements

Liturgy
The demanding coordination of our liturgies, liturgical ministers, and liturgical environment is an unsustainable workload being placed on our volunteers.

Evangelization  
We need but don’t have a budget for a staff person to coordinate, manage, and improve church belonging, hospitality, and spiritual growth programs and activities.

Communications
We lack assistance to coordinate and expand our social media presence, parish website and parish communications. This is vitally important to keep parishioners informed of parish events and activities and make St. Mary of Vernon well known locally.

Faith Formation
Our ministry is underserving our junior high students, young adults, and newly married couples because we lack funding for adequate staff.

Stewardship  
We need a coordinator to cultivate a greater sense of parish stewardship to help us come to understand that all we are and have are gifts from God.

As the Giver, God asks us to use and share our gifts generously with others who seek to do His will and works.

Let us rise-up to meet every need, to overcome every obstacle and to passionately pursue every opportunity available to better our church. This is the very essence of what God asks and commands of us as stewards of His church.