THELEAVEN.ORG | VOL. 39, NO. 41 | JUNE 22, 2018
READY TO LAUNCH
Archbishop looks to the future with $65 million capital campaign
The One Faith. One Family. One Future capital campaign will generate $10 million to go toward serving the elderly, especially through Villa St. Francis nursing facility in Olathe.
Parishes, schools and evangelization will get $22 million from the campaign.
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ANSAS C I T Y, Kan. — No great endeavor can succeed without great leadership, and the leadership given the archdiocesan capital campaign makes Lesle Knop proud. “We want it to be successful, and I’m proud of the leadership of our archbishop and our clergy,” said Knop, executive director of the archdiocesan stewardship and development office. In addition to his normal pastoral duties, Archbishop
Improvements to Savior Pastoral Center is a key component of the campaign. Savior will get $10 million.
Joseph F. Naumann has devoted a tremendous amount of time and effort to make the “One Faith. One Family. One Future in Christ” campaign a success, she said. The campaign came out of the archbishop’s vision of the future. “I just turned 69, which means in six more years I’ll be required to submit
The campaign will raise $17 million to boost priests’ pensions and build a retirement residence for priests.
my resignation to the Holy Father,” said Archbishop Naumann. “I was thinking a couple of years ago about some of the most important things we need to do to put the archdiocese in the best possible shape for the next archbishop,” he said, “and some of the things I would regret if we didn’t address them now.” Those thoughts were the seeds of the effort that Archbishop Naumann will officially launch at 5:30 p.m. on June 25 when he hosts a campaign launch kickoff celebration in the Keleher Conference Center at Savior Pastoral Center, 12615 Parallel Pkwy.,
Kansas City, Kansas. For the campaign, archdiocesan parishes have been organized into three blocks. The launch will be attended by pastors and volunteer lay leadership of the 31 parishes comprising Block 1. “We’ll also invite members of the priests’ advisory committee, the archbishop will be there and some guest speakers,” said Mike Hutchinson, local campaign director. “It’s really a celebration for the pastors and the volunteers running the campaign in their parishes for Block 1.” “It’s going to be a historic >> See “PARTICIPATION” on page 6