Dear Fellow Catholic,
I would like to share with you my experience in fundraising. I may not have fresh ideas that you haven’t come across before, but I think it may be helpful to hear a priest’s experience on the matter. Also, we can all learn from each other because that’s what being Church is all about.
I'm currently a parish priest in Ireland. When I arrived at the church two years ago, we were ‘in the red’ and finances were certainly not in great shape. A lot of time and effort went into discovering how the parish had reached this stage and what could be done to reverse the trend. The church had run at an annual operating loss for a consecutive 17 years.
