Advancing Our Church

Published: December 15, 2019 Today we visit the Church of St. Anne in Garden City, New York, to discuss their very successful capital campaign. We visit with their pastor, Rev. Msgr. Thomas Harold and the Director of Parish Operations, Mary Lou Engrassia. Changing Our World‘s Jim Friend is joined by Yasmine Hicks, who directed this important campaign. Hear the story of how this parish completed this successful capital campaign.Church of St. Anne: CampaignCampaign Goal: $3.5 Million Amount Raised: $3,554,000“Being Catholic at St. Anne’s: Our Families, Our Mission, Our Future” addressed the needs and plans for increased Meeting and Ministry space for the many activities, organizations, and ministries of the parish.  In order to serve their children and parishioners better, they explored and finalized plans for the addition of a new building to serve as a meeting and ministry facility. This facility will contain more than 10,000 square feet of meeting space, be fully accessible, hold up to 250 people, and wil