{"id":104,"date":"2014-07-22T22:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.st-matthew-church.com\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:21:22","slug":"cornerstone-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/?page_id=104","title":{"rendered":"Cornerstone Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244\" src=\"http:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Untitled.png 640w, https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Untitled-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Untitled-260x127.png 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2008, a small group of St. Matthew Parishioners decided they wanted to begin planning for the future of the Parish and the eventual construction of a permanent Church, and so a sub-Committee of the Parish Finance Committee was born in November 2008. This group was initially called the Building Fund Sub-Committee and set as its first activity a Parish Registration Campaign in early 2009, which was coupled with a slide show presentation at all the Masses showing the history of St. Matthew Parish since its formation in 1992.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Periodic meetings were held throughout 2009 as the group worked to get organized and energized while coming up with various ideas of how to progress. In early 2010 the Sub-Committee was formalized, with a charter and organizational structure, and planning began in earnest for various fund-raising activities.\u00a0 Contests were held to give the Sub-Committee a more appropriate name and logo in 2011.\u00a0 In mid-2011 the Cornerstone Committee was selected as its name, and by August 2011 we also had our current Cornerstone logo. Decisions were also made to hold some key fund-raising activities such as a Giant Craft &amp; Tag Sale, Golf Tournament, and Casino Night, all of which have now become &#8220;cornerstone&#8221; activities which are held annually.\u00a0 Although several of the fund-raising activities of the Committee are still being held, the Committee meetings are currently on hiatus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many other fund-raising ideas and programs have been considered and tried, with some remaining and others being less successful and dropped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0863-Casino-Night2-e1409795494358.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0863-Casino Night2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228\" src=\"http:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0706-Cornerstone-Tag-Sale2-e1409795587607.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0706-Cornerstone Tag Sale2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/016-e1410485407280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/016-e1410485407280.jpg\" alt=\"016\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, a small group of St. Matthew Parishioners decided they wanted to begin planning for the future of the Parish and the eventual construction of a permanent Church, and so a sub-Committee of the Parish Finance Committee was born in November 2008. This group was initially called the Building Fund Sub-Committee and set as <a href=\"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/?page_id=104\">[Continue Reading&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-matthew-church.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}