CCD Program is Expensive!

[Joe_5859]

Just curious - how big would you say your parish is?

Probably about 1700 families.

 

[twf]

And yet that many paid staff! Wow. Must be a lot of generous givers.

 

[TheLittleLady]

This means the parish likely serves 3500 + people. That is a lot of work!

In the US, there is a national average of 1 active Diocesean priest per parish.

https://cara.georgetown.edu/frequently-requested-church-statistics/

One man trying to do the job of records keeper + scheduler + communications/PR + Compliance + DRE + Youth Minister + homebound coordination + facilities management, heck, simply cleaning/mowing, the poor priest would never sleep or have time to say Mass!

 

[Joe_5859]

One man trying to do the job of records keeper + scheduler + communications/PR + Compliance + DRE + Youth Minister + homebound coordination + facilities management, heck, simply cleaning/mowing, the poor priest would never sleep or have time to say Mass!

Indeed! Although, I knew a priest at a smaller rural parish who loved mowing the lawn. It was his time of relaxation. Then he got moved to an inner city parish with zero lawn or green space of any kind. He was kind of bummed about that.

 

[Horton]

Not just a protestant thing. Our parish has about 1200 families and 6 paid staff, 3 full time, 2 part time, and 1 paid music director which is less than part time.

Our parish would have a difficult time functioning without staff.