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Dear Parishioners,
In this our 2026-2029 Thanksgiving Campaign, we acknowledge our recent past achievements and plan for our future dreams! As a community, we have proudly continued to grow and develop.
Our parish is based on serving the needs of the community through Prayer, Welcome, Participation and Outreach. From an empty block of land, we have continued to develop our physical, liturgical and pastoral parish life.
Our symbol for this campaign is “Teamwork”. Teamwork brings people together to achieve more than they could alone. When we work as a team, we combine our strengths, ideas and efforts to reach goals faster. It builds trust, encourages communication and fosters a supportive environment where everyone can contribute their best. Together, we can achieve extraordinary results that benefit us all.
The rich diversity of our parish enables each and every one of us to contribute to the mission and vision by playing a part in creating a welcoming, caring parish with good resources.
We invite you at this time to consider how you can support our community through community prayer, service and financial giving. We take this opportunity to thank you for your commitment to our community. It is through your combined, generous commitment to prayer, service and financial support that enables our community to respond to the needs of those we serve, living out our commitment to the Gospel of Jesus.
Our community can only thrive by us all continuing to pull together, maintaining and developing all that we have achieved. What will be your contribution to our parish life? How will you respond to the invitation before you?
Brian Collins (Parish Priest)
Loretta Venten (Pastoral & Spirituality)
Neil Cooper (Business Manager)
Suzan Gerreyn (Sacramental Coordinator)
Over the past 3 years, we have…
Over the past three years, St Anthony’s Parish has continued to grow as a vibrant and welcoming faith community through a range of initiatives, celebrations, and improvements, including:
● Continuing to enhance and improve the Church sound system
● Hosting an Ordination celebration
● Giving the Big Hall a facelift
● Establishing a Youth Group
● Collaborating with Resurrection Parish to host a Combined Parish Dance
● Hosting annual Volunteer Thank You Dinners
● Celebrating a Day of Peace Mass
● Organising Altar Servers Gatherings
● Combined many committees across St Anthony’s and Resurrection leveraging our strengths
● Worked collaboratively between our parishes to provide a unified Child Safety, Working with Children Check, Code of Conduct and Child Safe training for volunteers.
● Celebrating 70 years of Parish life.
Over the next 3 years we hope to...
Over the next three years, St Anthony’s Parish hopes to continue building a strong and sustainable future for our community through the following goals and initiatives:
● Progressing the sale of parish land to help support long-term needs and future direction of the parish including paying off the Church loan
● Continuing to strengthen and solidify the partnership between St Anthony’s and Resurrection Parishes, fostering greater collaboration, shared resources, and unity between our communities.
● Further developing and strengthening the Youth Group, encouraging young people to grow in faith, leadership, and active participation in parish life.
St Anthony's invitation to you
• One hour of community worship and prayer each week
• One hour of service to this community or other communities each week
• One hour of your weekly income
If you have contributed to thanksgiving previously
Are you now in a position to increase your contribution equivalent to $1 per year for the past 3 years?
That is, increase your current contribution by $3 per week
Payment methods will be:
Credit card-option for monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly payments
Direct debit - option for weekly, fortnightly or monthly payments
Envelope system- weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly payments
Remember you can change your pledge at any time
For security reasons, the parish preference is credit card/ direct debit option
If you are choosing to contribute by credit card/direct debit, please have your credit card/bank details with you for pledge sign up weekend.
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If you are a newcomer to the area or you would like to change any of your personal details such as phone number, address... ,
you should fill in a new census card, we will add or update your information into the church system.
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If you would like to join in our thanksgiving program to regularly contribute to the parish, you can get this form from the Church, the parish office or download from this website,
fill in the necessary parts and return to the Parish Office. We are very appreciated for your generosity and kindness.
YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE THANKSGIVING CAMPAIGN BY COMPLETE AN ONLINE FORM.
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