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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):

Also Future Planning Notes Below Here:

(Here is a list of collections, whos dates are set by The DIOCESE OF LANSING and envelops are in the St. Francis parishoner's packet.)
 

  • January 2011--------  --------------------
  • January 16, 2011 - *Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)(This ICPJ Collection was rescheduled from January 2010 when it got POSTPONED due to the Haiti Earthquake collection for CRS.)
  • February 2011--------  --------------------
  • February 20, 2011 - *Friends in Deed (FID). (Since Ash Wed is late on March 9, 2011, we were able to have a collection in February.) 
  • March 2011--------  --------------------
  • March 6 - April 17, 2011 - Lenten Project– 
  • “Have a Heart for the Homeless”  will raise funds for the RAAH capital campaign and Habitat for Humanity, while focusing the project on the experience of individuals here in Washtenaw County who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
  • April 2011--------  --------------------
  • April 3, 2011 (“Laetare Sunday” Fourth Sunday of Lent) ***Catholic Relief Services Collection Or,  www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/
  • 2011 - April 21, 2011, Holy Thurday - * Pro Mujer, which provides education and job training to women throughout Latin America   https://promujer.org/   (This idea came from our group addressing women's human rights when they read the list in the back of the book, "Half the Sky".)
  • May 2011--------  --------------------
  • Do not schedule a Special Collection in May.  The Diocesan Services Appeal (DSA) is still on.
  • June 2011--------  --------------------
  • June 19, 2011, *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish (also in parishoners envelope packet on 2011-06-19).
  • July 2011--------  --------------------
  • July 17, 2011, *Immigration Project with Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
  • August 2011--------  --------------------
  • August 21, 2011 - *HOPE Medical CLINIC, Inc. (On Mon, May 24, 2010, Dawn Massie  wrote:  Hope Clinic would like to apply to get back on the list again for a future Special Collection.     Dawn Massie  (734-484-2989 ext. 300))
  • August (Second Sunday in August) ***Peter's Pence (Collection for the Holy Father)  www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/
  • September 2011 - *(NO Special Collection due to TIME & TALENT + FAITH appeal.)
  • September 5th or 12th, 2011, (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)
  • October 2011--------  --------------------
  • October 16, 2011, *Pregnancy Help Center, Arbor Vitae Women's Center.
  • October 23, 2011 (Next to last Sunday in Oct.) ***World Mission Sunday
  • November 2011--------  --------------------
  • November 20, 2011, *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish (Fr. Jim said, "NOT on 2011-11-27, th efourth Sunday of Nov, because that is also the 1st Sunday of Advent, when it is in parishioners' envelope packet on 2011-11-27).
  • November 20, 2011,  (Sunday before Thanksgiving) ***CCHD Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
  • December 2011 "*"(NO Special Collection due to number of other giving programs at this time. Wait. Assume "closed".) 
  • December 11, 2011,  (second Sunday of December) *** National Retirement Fund for Religious.
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  • January 2012--------  --------------------
  • January 15, 2012 - *     TBD               .?
  • February 2012--------  -------------------- (Since Ash Wed is on February 22, 2012, we will probably NOT have a collection in February 2012.)  (Due to Lent starting earlier this year there will be NO extra special collection in February 2012.) 
  • Febaruary 19,  2012 (normally 1st Sunday of Lent) ***Black and Indian Missions www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/ncdescriptions.shtml
  • February 19 - April 1, 2012 - Lenten Project– 
    • “Have a Heart for the Homeless”  will raise funds for the RAAH capital campaign and Habitat for Humanity, while focusing the project on the experience of individuals here in Washtenaw County who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
  • March 2012--------  --------------------
  • March 11, 2012 (normally “Laetare Sunday” Fourth Sunday of Lent) ***Catholic Relief Services Collection Or,  www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/
  • April 2012--------  --------------------
  • 2012 - April 5, 2012, Holy Thurday - *      TBD               .?
  • May 2012--------  --------------------
  • Do not schedule a Special Collection in May.  The Diocesan Services Appeal (DSA) is still on.
  • June 2012--------  --------------------
  • June 17, 2012, *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish (also in parishoners envelope packet then.).
  • July 2012--------  --------------------
  • July 15, 2012, *     TBD               .?
  • August 2012--------  --------------------
  • August 19, 2012 - *     TBD               .?
  • August (Second Sunday in August) ***Peter's Pence (Collection for the Holy Father)  www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/
  • September - *(NO Special Collection due to TIME & TALENT + FAITH appeal.)
  • September (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)
  • October 2012--------  --------------------
  • October 14, 2012, *     TBD               .?
  • October 21, 2012 (Normally next to last Sunday in Oct.) ***World Mission Sunday
  • November 2012--------  --------------------
  • November 18, 2012, *St. Vincent de Paul of St. Francis Parish.
  • November 18, 2012,  (Normally the Sunday before Thanksgiving) ***CCHD Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
  • December 2012 "*"(NO Special Collection due to number of other giving programs at this time. Wait. Assume "closed".) 

    • December 9, 2012,  (second Sunday of December) *** National Retirement Fund for Religious.
  • January 2013--------  --------------------
  • January 20, 2013 - *     TBD               .?
  • January , 2013 (Normally on the LAST Sunday of January)***Worldwide Evangelization Appeal  (Church in Latin America, Holyland, Eastern & Central Europe & Africa)  (The January collection for World Wide Evangelization includes 4 instead of doing these separately:  Latin America, Church in Eastern & Central Europe, Holy Land and the Church in Africa.) (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 2013--------  --------------------

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  • ------  ------- Planning NOTES --------  ------
  • - Organizations we were unable to schedule in 2009 and/or 2010:
  • 2012? Perhaps?- *SOS Community Services: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:48 PM, our Peace & Justice Committe wrote:  Barbara Lessnau Cecil ...  Barbara, The St. Francis Peace and Justice Committee reviewed our Special Collection calendar for 2009 and the SOS application for a Special Collection. We certainly appreciate all the wonderful work that SOS does in our community.  Unfortunately, we have had an increase in requests and were unable to schedule SOS for a collection in 2009.

    • 2012? Perhaps?- *His Eye Is on the Sparrow on Monday, April 4, 2011, John Rolph at (734)572-7727 or johnrolph(at)comcast.net  raised the question about how to seek a special collection (there has not yet been a formall application request submitted) for ...  His Eye Is on the Sparrow is a Christian non-profit that operates homes in the county for the developmentally disabled. 
  • 2012? Perhaps?- * 
  • 2012? Perhaps?- * 

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  • See the Special Collection Planning Page at: specialcollectionplanning.htm
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    • History & Past Special Collections List: CLICK HERE.

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    Explanation 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?
    (Here is a list of collections, whos dates are set by The DIOCESE OF LANSING and envelops are in the St. Francis parishoner's packet.)
    "* 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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