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As the Director of Development and Planned Giving, I am pretty sure I have the best job in the world. In the last two and a half years, I have gotten to know so many of you, the faithful Catholics of our diocese, and it is my honor. Every time I spend some time with one of you, I feel uplifted and am assured that the Catholic faith is alive and well in western North Dakota.

You may be placing your hopes in social security, funding an IRA or 401k plan, but your investments are subject to market fluctuations and may not get you to your target income. One way to have certainty about your future is by creating a charitable gift annuity. Click title for more information.

How do we “ensure the faith”? The answer is fairly simple, with endowment funds. With more gifts to the endowment fund, it grows and so does the annual distribution to your parish or catholic school, etc.

Four more men accepted brings the number to 28 men studying to be priests for the diocese.

The Catholic Foundation for the People of the Diocese of Bismarck seeks a Development Assistant. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to provide professional administrative and program support along with donor relations functions to the Foundation and Development Office. Click title for more details.

Fr. Josh Waltz calls the last 12 months "a whirlwind." After taking over for Monsignor Tom Richter as the diocesan director of vocations in July 2013, Waltz has watched the number of seminarians in the Bismarck Diocese rise. And rise. And rise again.

Spurred on by two anonymous donors and the Bismarck Diocese's record number of seminarians, the Catholic Foundation for the People of the Diocese of Bismarck is on a quest to raise $300,000 by the end of the year.

Since the establishment of the Diocese of Bismarck over 100 years ago, the mission of the Church has remained constant...to be Ambassadors for Christ, to proclaim God's Word, to celebrate the Eucharist and the sacraments, to build up Christian communities and to leave the impression of Christ on each generation.

View the PDF of the Fall 2013 newsletter by clicking on the title above.