Saint Benedict Cathedral

Evansville, Indiana | North East Region | Church Website

All Successes | Catholic | Diocese of Evansville

Campaign Purpose

Saint Benedict Cathedral has long been a beautiful beacon of mission, respite, and reverence for God in the Evansville community. Their cathedral, school, and other buildings serve that work as long as they are cared for and well maintained. Church leadership recognized that their facilities required improvements to remain in good repair and to become more welcoming, comfortable, and functional for all who came to worship, celebrate, work, and study at the parish.

After having Walsh conduct a feasibility and planning study, the church moved into their Building for Mission capital campaign. A large part of their need was maintenance – HVAC system replacements, updates, and renovations across their campus. As the center of the Diocese of Indiana, Saint Benedict also needed to build a new ministry center and gathering space, and do some additional renovations.

Debt – Eliminated!

In recognition of the larger cost of debt, the capital campaign goal also included eliminating their debt. Doing this would allow Saint Benedict to redirect over $1.5 million per year of savings toward services and ministries to benefit their church members, their community, and the greater world.

Awareness of the benefits of paying off the debt created by their Building for Mission campaign motivated the congregation to action. Through their blessed generosity, Saint Benedict Cathedral was able to fully pay off their debt before the campaign’s active phase was even completed!

Testimonials

Our consultant’s leadership was invaluable and made a substantial impact on the success of the campaign. Walsh created a synergy that truly made the project run so effectively.
– David Rice, Gift Gathering Co-Chair

Campaign Highlight

$5,000,000
Campaign Goal

$6,113,501
Amount Raised

3.35
Times Annual Giving

Helping Churches Reach New Heights in their Capital Campaigns

Our mission is to be great stewards, to live up to the Parable of Talents and to bring out the best in those we serve. Our consistent and proven-to-be-successful approach to directing church capital campaigns helps assure this. We just work with churches, only do capital campaigns and ground them in prayer, scripture and sound stewardship teachings. Then we combine this with practical, proven-to-be-most-productive operating methods. This not only assures you of getting the best results and best return on your capital campaign investment financially, but also, that your church will grow spiritually and in community and will be more equipped and excited than ever about doing God’s will through the works of your church.