Parish Center Capital Campaign

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One of Holy Trinity’s top priorities is to construct a Parish Center. Holy Trinity’s Parish Center, once built, will offer Holy Trinity the ability to come together as a community for a wide variety of celebrations, achievements, and other events. The Parish Center will be the social center of the parish and will expand our parish life to include many new program offerings.

The Parish Center Committee was formed to help this goal come to fruition. The mission of the Committee is to oversee the design, marketing, fundraising, approvals, and construction of the Parish Center for Holy Trinity. For more information, visit our Parish Center Committee page.

Thank you to all who have contributed and continue to contribute to the Parish Center Campaign. Please continue to pray for the success of the campaign and prayerfully giving as your means allow.  If you have questions for the Parish Center Committee please email parishcenter@holytrinitywestmont.org.

If you would like to donate to the campaign, please contact Fr. Rafal Wasilewski, C.R., call the Parish Office at (630) 968-1366 or click here to donate.

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Click here to read the My Suburban Life article about our parish center project!

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Updates ​​​- March 2023

We thank you for your continued support, prayers and patience as we progress with our Parish Center project. We have learned a lot through this process, most notably that constructing a 12,000 square foot building is an extraordinarily complex undertaking! So, while the project has not progressed as quickly as we had originally hoped, the Parish Center Committee has made substantial progress in the past few months. We have:

• Hired CM Lavoie & Associates to act as our Owner’s Representative in order to bring the project to completion,
• Reviewed detailed design plans and provided ongoing feedback
• Sent design plans to several contractors for bidding and are waiting for bids to determine the current cost of the building

Depending on the total cost of the project, we may not be able to do everything we wish to do at once.  For example:

• The full kitchen will be built in preparation to service kitchen appliances (with electrical, gas and plumbing), but the appliances themselves may be purchased later
• Items for the Great Hall/Gymnasium, such as sound baffles on the ceiling, portable stage and bleachers, sporting equipment, etc., may be added over time
• We may furnish the conference rooms with furniture we already have on hand, then upgrade it in the future
• The south exterior wall of the school where the new building will connect to the existing school may remain in its current state (wood paneling, single-pane glass, window A/C units).
• The committee has expressed the desire to replace that section of the school with brick masonry to match the new building and school, but this will be an added cost to the project.

As a result, in addition to your ongoing prayers, we are very much in need of additional pledges and donations!  To those who have made a new pledge or renewed an existing pledge, thank you for your generosity.  If you have yet to give, please prayerfully consider doing so as we are very near to seeing our vision become a reality. Contact Chris Simon at the parish office at csimon@holytrinitywestmont.org or (630) 968-1366, ext. 120.

We continue to be very enthusiastic and excited about the project and look forward to scheduling an official groundbreaking for late spring/early summer.  Stay tuned and thank you for your ongoing support!