CHARLOTTE — Christ Himself set the example for all Christians that we are to be His hands and His feet in the world. Here in the Diocese of Charlotte, the 2019 DSA campaign gives us the opportunity to put our faith into action by contributing to Christ’s work in ways such as feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger and educating the faithful.
In his DSA appeal letter to the faithful, Bishop Peter Jugis shared a passage from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians: “‘For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them’ (Eph 2:10).
“This is a heartfelt reminder and an opportunity to put our faith into action to help others while supporting our 2019 Diocesan Support Appeal, ‘We Are His Hands,’” the bishop said.
The DSA campaign funds more than 50 programs and ministries. It also funds the core operations of 30 ministries and agencies, like those mentioned above, that serve thousands of people across the diocese. Most notably, the DSA is a significant funding source for Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte for its counseling, food pantries, pregnancy support, refugee resettlement, elder ministry, Respect Life and other programs, as well as the programs and ministries of the Education Vicariate.
The DSA also supports multicultural ministries, seminarian education, the permanent diaconate, the annual Eucharistic Congress, and the diocese’s housing corporation.
Catholic Charities receives 32 percent of the funds collected in the campaign. Other DSA funds are allocated to: the Education Vicariate (29 percent); multicultural ministries (15 percent); vocations (10 percent); and the Eucharistic Congress and the diocesan housing ministry (8 percent). Campaign administrative costs are projected to be 6 percent.
Last year, parishioners raised a record $6.3 million – 8 percent over the goal and the most ever raised in this annual campaign.
The 2019 DSA campaign has a goal of $6.08 million, which represents a 3.5 percent increase over the 2018 goal.
Parishioners in all 92 parishes and missions in the diocese fund the annual DSA campaign. Each parish has an assessed goal. Parishes that exceed their goal in donations receive a rebate for 100 percent of the additional funds collected; parishes which fall short of their goal in donations from parishioners make up the shortfall from their operating budgets.
In the 2019 DSA video, Bishop Jugis summarized this year’s campaign, saying, “‘We Are His Hands’ is an apt description for all of the activity that takes place in our diocese thanks to the Diocesan Support Appeal.”
— SueAnn Howell, senior reporter
More online
On the Diocese of Charlotte YouTube channel: View the 2019 DSA video
Where does your money go?
The purpose of the Diocesan Support Appeal is to help provide the annual funding necessary to carry out the mission of our diocese – namely to fulfill our call to “grow ever more perfectly into a community of praise, worship and witness, and to become a leaven of service and sign of peace through love in the Piedmont and Western North Carolina.”
All parishes and missions in the diocese help fund the annual DSA. Parishes that exceed their goal in donations receive a rebate of 100 percent for the additional funds. Parishes that fall short of their goal in donations have the shortfall taken out of their operating budgets
DSA funds are distributed as follows:
32% CATHOLIC CHARITIES:
Burial Assistance
Case Management
Counseling
Disaster Relief
Elder Ministry
Far West Families First
Food Pantries
Clothing Closet
Legal Immigration Services
Marriage Preparation
Natural Family Planning
Pregnancy Support & Adoption
Refugee Services
Respect Life
Social Concerns & Advocacy
Stay the Course
Teen & Young Parent Support
Transitions Out of Poverty Case Management
Translation & Interpretation Enterprise
Wee Care Shoppe
Youth in Crisis
29% EDUCATION:
Evangelization/Adult Education
RCIA
Campus Ministry
Faith Formation Office
Youth Ministry
Young Adult Ministry
Catholic Schools Offices
Office of the Vicar of Education
15% MULTICULTURAL MINISTRIES:
Hispanic Ministries
Hmong Ministry
African American Ministry
10% VOCATIONS:
Seminarian Education
Permanent Diaconate
8% OTHER:
Eucharistic Congress
Housing Ministry
6% DSA CAMPAIGN COSTS
NOTE: THIS CHART REFLECTS PROJECTED 2019 DSA FUNDING FOR $6.08 MILLION WHICH IS ALLOCATED TO THESE OFFICES AND MINISTRIES.
Parish/Mission, City, DSA Goal
Christ the King, High Point: $13,673
Christ the King, Shelby: $4,350
Divine Redeemer, Boonville: $27,033
Good Shepherd, King: $13,199
Holy Angels, Mount Airy: $23,896
Holy Cross, Kernersville: $80,810
Holy Family, Clemmons: $157,119
Holy Infant, Reidsville: $18,121
Holy Redeemer, Andrews: $6,271
Holy Spirit, Denver: $66,573
Holy Trinity, Taylorsville: $7,218
Immaculate Conception, Forest City: $43,501
Immaculate Conception, Hendersonville: $139,133
Immaculate Conception, Waynesville: $4,570
Immaculate Heart of Mary, High Point: $141,142
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Murphy: $22,278
Our Lady of Consolation, Charlotte: $46,261
Our Lady of Fatima, Winston-Salem: $10,818
Our Lady of Grace, Greensboro: $115,246
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bryson City: $2,984
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Charlotte: $79,714
Our Lady of Lourdes, Monroe: $56,470
Our Lady of Mercy, Winston-Salem: $87,138
Our Lady of the Americas, Biscoe: $30,506
Our Lady of the Angels, Marion: $11,575
Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albemarle: $34,374
Our Lady of the Assumption, Charlotte: $55,872
Our Lady of the Highways, Thomasville: $18,154
Our Lady of the Mountains, Highlands: $15,654
Our Lady of the Rosary, Lexington: $21,580
Prince of Peace, Andrews: $2,812
Queen of the Apostles, Belmont: $96,308
Sacred Heart, Hamlet: $3,116
Sacred Heart, Brevard: $54,104
Sacred Heart, Mars Hill: $8,786
Sacred Heart, Salisbury: $106,962
St. Aloysius, Hickory: $119,840
St. Andrew the Apostle, Mars Hill: $9,752
St. Ann, Charlotte: $116,330
St. Barnabas, Arden: $84,943
St. Benedict, Greensboro: $23,947
St. Benedict the Moor, Winston-Salem: $10,728
St. Bernadette, Spruce Pine: $34,432
St. Charles Borromeo, Morganton: $51,772
St. Dorothy, Lincolnton: $34,999
St. Elizabeth, Boone: $41,273
St. Eugene, Asheville: $83,857
St. Frances of Rome, Sparta: $8,972
St. Francis of Assisi, Mocksville: $21,788
St. Francis of Assisi, Franklin: $30,202
St. Francis of Assisi, Jefferson: $19,656
St. Francis of Assisi, Lenoir: $28,449
St. Gabriel, Charlotte: $374,641
St. Helen, Spencer Mountain: $5,968
St. James, Concord: $133,755
St. James, Hamlet: $11,738
St. Joan of Arc, Asheville: $28,692
St. John Baptist de La Salle, North Wilkesboro: $18,205
St. John Lee Korean, Charlotte: $15,559
St. John Neumann, Charlotte: $100,924
St. John the Baptist, Tryon: $46,105
St. John the Evangelist, Waynesville: $18,932
St. Joseph Vietnamese, Charlotte: $48,530
St. Joseph, Asheboro: $31,409
St. Joseph, Newton: $26,973
St. Joseph of the Hills, Eden: $10,458
St. Joseph, Bryson City: $7,016
St. Joseph, Kannapolis: $18,943
St. Jude, Sapphire: $20,967
St. Lawrence Basilica: $81,665
St. Leo, Winston-Salem: $169,326
St. Lucien, Spruce Pine: $9,579
St. Luke, Mint Hill: $112,414
St. Margaret Mary, Swannanoa: $25,885
St. Margaret of Scotland, Maggie Valley: $19,581
St. Mark, Huntersville: $312,579
St. Mary, Greensboro: $37,702
St. Mary, Shelby: $25,781
St. Mary, Sylva: $17,479
St. Matthew, Charlotte: $837,171
St. Michael, Gastonia: $81,669
St. Patrick Cathedral, Charlotte: $95,082
St. Paul the Apostle, Greensboro: $104,078
St. Peter, Charlotte: $178,487
St. Philip the Apostle, Statesville: $46,753
St. Pius X, Greensboro: $209,297
St. Stephen, Elkin: $14,180
St. Therese, Mooresville: $182,912
St. Thomas Aquinas, Charlotte: $107,489
St. Vincent de Paul, Charlotte: $122,749
St. William, Murphy: $21,063
TOTAL: $6,080,000