Capital Campaign Reaches $1 Million Mark!

In the span of less than one month, Our Lady of Fatima’s Remembering our roots…building our future Capital Campaign reached the $1 million mark. The parish celebrated that milestone Wednesday, August 31.

“This is wonderful news for our entire parish family,” Monsignor Walker Nickless said.  “To reach $1 million in less than four weeks shows the true dedication and sacrifice our parishioners are willing to make. It’s a time to celebrate and I hope all parishioners take time to thank and praise God. We still have a lot of work to do to reach our ultimate goal of $2 million, but we need to take time to enjoy this highlight in our campaign.”

While pledges continue to come into the campaign office on a daily basis, the phase one renovations are also moving along briskly. General Contractor Pat Cox of Zimmer-Cox Commercial Builders is pleased with the progress.

“We are right on schedule. It’s going great,” Cox said. “We are on time for the October 15 completion date. Everything is going very smoothly.”

Cox credited Deacon John Nusse for much of the project’s success. “Deacon John has a lot of construction experience,” Cox said. “He knows what I am encountering and between the two of us we can head off any problems and work together on it. He’s been great to work with.”

Depending upon the workload, Cox assigns as few as two and as many as 12 workers on the project. The creation of sanctuary steps required a number of workers to make certain the cement was laid correctly.

“We poured 15 yards today [September 2]” Cox said. “This includes the stairs, the plumbing trenches back in the Adoration Chapel along with all the miscellaneous areas. Everything but the [new] office area was poured, but we just removed the concrete there yesterday and we will start on that next week.”

While Cox and his crew will continue to address the physical nature of the capital campaign, volunteers will remain busy too by spreading word of the success of the Remembering our roots…building our future Capital Campaign.