Groundbreaking

Those of you who currently are enjoying recipes from the cookbook "International Flavors of St. Marks" may appreciate the efforts and dedication of those that helped put this together. What you may not realize is that this was part of a fundraising effort to build a new church building at St. Marks on the same site here in Monticello. Today (January 18) we officially broke ground on the structure, which will be built in the parking area on the north side of the church. When completed, our seating area will about double, and other amenities will be made available. The old church will be converted to a social hall and the education wing will remain as built.


This picture shows Kenny helping Father Philip Reeves (our new priest) and Mons. Hebert (current Little Rock Dioceses administator--Pope Benedict has yet to name our new bishop) shovel some dirt--the other lil' guy in the picture is Kenny's friend "Beau" Kuttenkuler.

It has taken a number of years to raise the money to build this new facility, as we are a small parish with limited resources. We will need to continue fund raising efforts to cover a number of loans the parish will have to take to complete the project, and I strongly suspect Hope will help organize another cookbook and help hold yard sales. We should be in the new building before the end of the year, so y'all that are coming down for Christmas this year should get to see the new church!

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