Greetings!

Medical Mission Weekend was a success! 

We were able to get a lot of exposure for the committee's accomplishments while thanking our fellow parishioners for their ongoing support. The real winners were the good folks in Marbial Parish as we gave them a voice and reasons for continued assistance. Many thanks to all of you who made it to one or more of the Masses and/or the set-up Saturday afternoon. Also many thanks to Father Donahue for allowing us to show the video before Masses and allowing me to speak for a few minutes at the end of each Mass. 

There was quite a bit of interest from our fellow parishioners. We even had parishioners from the 7 am Mass spend time and engage us in conversation which was a surprise. Usually that crowd is out of the church with stunning speed after Mass.

We did not solicit one dime. Every contribution we received was someone wanting to donate, not asked in any way to donate. When we counted the donations at the end of the day, we were beyond pleasantly surprised to find we received $839 in donations give or take a dollar or two. $96 came from the raffle, $565 came from container on the table that I mainly worked that was just under Haiti Wall, bulletin board and $178 was donated at the birthing table which was under the watch of Eleanor Garvey. The generosity of our fellow parishioners is amazing.

Carolyn will be bringing the donations to the rectory for Meghean in the next day or so. 

I took a couple of pictures before the 7 am Mass. Nothing great but I attached a couple for you to peruse. A couple of you liked my sunset photo that I took last December at Walnut Beach that was on the front of my notebook. I included a couple of more photos from that night; one from Walnut Beach and the other of Charles Island from Gulf Beach. Note there was no fire that night...

More to follow. Our next meeting is Monday October 5th. Have a great week!

All My Best,

Andy