What If Our Parish Has Only 35 Families?
A few families benefit from Catholic CDs, too, so just because a parish is small doesn't mean Lighthouse CDs aren't for them!
As one parishioner from a small parish told me, "We don't
usually get many options here at our parish. These CDs allow
us to bring in some of the best!"
Hear wisdom from Fr. David Richter in an interview on a Lighthouse national conference call! Fr. David serves a cluster of three little parishes. St. Mary's in Medora pictured at the right with 15 families is one of his former parishes!
Options for a small parish:
1) One can purchase a side entrance portable display. See options here. One can also use just a header board set on a table.
2) One can order five of a title instead of 25.
3) One can order four CD titles instead of nine.
4) A small parish can order with their "cluster" or with another parish to receive the
quantity rates for 10 or more of a title. The "ordering parish" sees that the CDs
get delivered to each parish.
5) Since small parishes seem to all know one another, a parish can sign up as
a group to receive the CD of the Month Club together. In this way, people sign up
little as $1.80 per month and when the new releases arrive each month, one
volunteer hands them to those who signed up.
Following is just one example of what a small parish can do...
National # of CDs/Family Award...
St. Mel’s in Rhame, ND, a parish of just 28 registered families, truly amazed the top Lighthouse leaders at the national conference. St. Mel’s has 20 people signed up together to receive the CD of the Month. They also rotate a handful of four titles every three months. Doing the math, they will use over 320 CDs this year. This is the most CDs per family of any parish in the nation! (If a parish of 1000 families were to share CDs at this same ratio, they would be sharing over 11,500 CDs in a year!)