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St. John Paul II University Parish Pledge Drive
“Honor the LORD with your wealth, with first fruits of all your produce; then will your barns be filled with plenty, with new wine your vats will overflow.” Proverbs 3:9-10
We need $200,000 in pledges to sustain the parish for this next fiscal year. Since we are a quickly growing parish we would like to raise an additional $50,000 so that we can expand our ministry to our students, including programs for young adults in the deanery (post-college age) and retreats for our teenagers. The combined total to sustain our Parish and Campus Ministry puts our pledge goal at $250,000. Will you prayerfully consider helping?
A Quick Glance at Numbers and Reasons to Commit
- UNT and TWU have 36,000 and 12,000 students, respectively, for a total of 48,000 students, along with a total of 10,500 employees and 2,500 faculty members.
- If 25 percent of the people at the two universities are Catholic, then we are here to serve 12,000 Catholic students, 2,600 employees, and 600 faculty members. (According to the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, 35% of freshman attending Non-Catholic Universities are Catholic.)
- We now have a campus minister for UNT and another for TWU. With many additions we have an abundance of activities every day for the students, we see constant growth, and we are having a real impact on the universities.
- With many volunteers and organizations we fed over 3,000 FREE meals to our students this past academic year!
- We offered our first Spring Break Mission Trip. 8 students, 6 local DFW students, and 8 students from Texas A&M joined us in our mission trip to Haiti. It was a double success as many students who could not join us kept in contact with us through Facebook and prayed with us as we posted the stark conditions of the Haitian people. (show picture)
- We started up our RCIA/Confirmation program this year with great success. We have 3 unbaptized students, 10 coming into the Church, and 5 being confirmed. That is as large a class as many long standing parishes in the diocese, and we already have a larger class by interest for next year.
For more information and ways to donate you may view our Pledge Drive Pamphlet to the left of this page or click the link titled "St.JPII Pledge Pamphlet"
To view the booklet of successes, highlights and God's plan for the future of St. John Paul II University Parish, you may click to the left of this page or click the link titled "St. JPII Past Blessings and Future Plans"
St. John Paul II Parish, which serves the students of the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University, is embarking on the single largest project ever in the history of the Ft.Worth Diocese by building a church oriented toward university students. This vision will become a reality with the generous donations made possible by you.
Our parish enriches and challenges students to grow through fellowship, commitment and the Catholic faith. As part of our parish, we hold various retreats, prayer groups and Faith Formation Programs. It is important that we keep this parish growing and continue bringing the Catholic Faith on the campuses of UNT and TWU.
With the increasing growth in our ministry we are in immediate need of donations to help us keep up with our quickly growing Parish! The Parish is in need of operational funds.
To donate to our Parish you may write a check out to St. John Paul II Parish and mail it to the following address:
Bl. John Paul II University Parish
1303 Eagle Drive
Denton, TX 76201
Our Parish also participates in Faith Direct and donations can safely be made electronically through this online giving. Simply click on the parish giving button to sign up. Are you a returning user? Click on the existing accounts icon. To make contributions to the capital campaign view the page titled "capital campaign"
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