Culver City
Our community is excited to participate alongside all parishes, missions and Catholic centers in the Archdiocese to strengthen and renew our Church for the future. Please continue reading to learn how this campaign will benefit us.
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Our Parish Goal
$1,500,000
Pledged over 5 years for the Called to Renew Campaign.
Our Parish Receives
$1,007,500
To renew our parish and strengthen ministries.
Our parish school has served this community for more than 90 years and now leads the Archdiocese in its global education efforts. Our 1940s school building hinders this progress. We will install new electrical and air conditioning systems and energy-efficient windows and doors, and renovate the cafeteria as well as the interior classrooms to support 21st century learning for our future Church leaders.
Our beautiful and historic parish hall was built in the 1930s and only provides space for one group at a time. It needs to be tastefully reconfigured and renovated with new flooring, lighting, climate control systems, and technological tools to restore the hall’s functionality. We will transform the old restrooms into meeting and ministry rooms, and improve our hospitality with a new commercial grade kitchen.
Youth and young adults are the future of the Church. With more than 200 young people participating in our Confirmation program each year, we have need for a staff position to serve this growing segment of our faith community. We will create an endowment to support a youth minister and to connect with our young people through appropriate technological tools.
Many facets create a “Sunday experience” that draws our community together in fellowship, prayer, and celebration of the Lord’s. We will focus on upgrading our antiquated plumbing from the 1950s, bringing our audio and video capabilities into the 21st century, and enhancing the safety of our campus with improved lighting and surveillance.
Our S.A.V.E.S ministry and St. Vincent de Paul Society help hundreds of women, men, and children every week as beacons of hope in Culver City. S.A.V.E.S. currently operates out of an old, inadequate structure with outdated electrical, plumbing, and technological systems. We will rebuild the current structures and renovate the outdated systems so St. Augustine Parish can continue its mission of serving the homeless and those most in need.
We — the Catholic faithful — are the agents of renewal for Church and society. I am grateful for this opportunity to walk alongside clergy and parishioners in strengthening our parishes and ministries, the heart of our Archdiocese.
Our parishes are more than buildings; they are the spiritual homes for millions in our Archdiocese. Embracing our mission to be a community of praise, worship, and witness, Called to Renew recognizes the vital role of parishes in the day-to- day life of a vibrant Church and is dedicated to meeting their needs.
As Christians, we are called to meet the spiritual and temporal needs of others. Called to Renew provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to expand and enhance our ministries to the most vulnerable among us, so we may walk with the sick and dying as well as with the victims and perpetrators of violent crimes and their families.
The future of our Church is strengthened when men hear and answer the Lord’s call to serve as his shepherds. The Archdiocese is committed to vocations and the formation of our seminarians and clergy, so they may minister with joyful hearts in the years ahead.
Our mission to live in greater communion with God and the Church is carried out through our parish and diocesan schools, religious education and faith formation programs, and our presence on college campuses throughout Southern California.
