Giving Opportunities:

Weekly Offertory - The weekly offertory is like your monthly bills.  You have a household budget to pay utilities, groceries, and other expenses.  Our St. Max Parish operates exactly the same way and on a budget.  We have utility bills, staff salaries, rental expenses for our “churchateria”, ministry operations, and all of this is paid for by your weekly offering.

Offertory Envelopes
After you have registered for the parish, offertory envelopes will be mailed to you (if indicated on your registration that you would use them) within a month.  After that envelopes are mailed to the home on a bi-monthly basis.  Until you receive your envelopes, you may use the visitor envelopes available in the lobby.

Automated Giving
Let Faith Direct, our church’s electronic giving program, take one thing off your hands: your regular church donations!  Sign up for electronic giving today by picking up a form in the lobby, calling the church office to request one or going to www.faithdirect.net and using our church code: FL185 to securely enroll online.
Thank you for your continued generous support of St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church.

Alive in Christ / Building Fund – The Alive in Christ campaign is like your home mortgage.  The funds we give to this campaign allow us to build a church for our parish.  A small portion of these funds also go to the Diocese to allow them to grow ministries and facilities as well.  To Learn more about the Alive in Christ Campaign;
Visit the Orlando Diocese at:  www.bealiveinchrist.org/Home

For those not participating in Alive in Christ, Building Fund envelopes are available in your offertory envelope packet.

Our Catholic Appeal - Our Catholic Appeal is like your Home Owners Association dues.  This analogy is a reality of most households in our parish.  Just like with HOA, the Diocese provides us with a very important service which unifies our 90 parishes into one church.  They have monthly operating costs, as well as additional expenses that our parish does not.  Such as the operating costs of San Pedro Center, sponsoring 27 new seminarians (one of whom comes from our parish, Blake Britton), campus ministries, catholic charities, and many more.

Each year we are assessed a dollar amount that we are required to pay as a Parish.  Our assessment is to be paid by our Parish whether we raise it during the campaign period or not, if we do not collect the pledges as a group the money will come out of our operating budget.