Here's the plan...

We are just beginning the process of the church building restoration, but here is a calendar of the general plan:

Liturgical Designer hiring:   March, 2016
Capital Campaign begins:  May, 2016
Capital Campaign ends:  August/September, 2016
Construction begins:  January, 2017
Construction ends:  Holy Week/Easter, 2017

A huge part of the renovation will be the painting of the church interior and upper stained glass restoration.  This will require extensive scaffolding, and we will need to close the church from January 2017 through approximately April 9, 2017.   Masses will be held in the Parish Center, and we will need to work together to coordinate other activities that usually take place in the Center.

 

The restoration committee will be working carefully with the designers to make recommendations to Fr. Jim on things like colors, pew restoration, sanctuary design and furnishings.  We hope to bring back some of the original character of our beautiful gothic style church. (The photo above was captured around 1906...the church was built in 1892.)

We will need volunteers to help with the capital campaign in terms of mailings and phone calls.  If you would like to help with this project in any way or have any questions that you would like to see answered here, please contact Martha via email stewardship@sfdslg.org.