CHARLOTTE — Today’s rising costs for food, fuel and other essentials create a greater demand for assistance. Together, through our combined gifts to the annual Diocesan Support Appeal, Catholics can help thousands of people in need across western North Carolina.
To date, the 2022 DSA has received $4.8 million – about 76 percent of its $6.3 million goal – with a few months remaining in this year’s campaign to receive the remaining $1.5 million.
“Faith More Precious Than Gold,” the theme of the 2022 Diocesan Support Appeal, echoes the diocese’s 50th anniversary celebration and is taken from 1 Peter 1:7: “so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
The theme “reminds us that our faith in the Lord, and in His love for us, is more important than anything else in our lives,” Bishop Peter Jugis noted in his letter announcing this year’s DSA.
The DSA campaign funds more than 50 ministries and programs that serve thousands of people across the diocese. Most notably, the DSA is a significant funding source for Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte for its counseling, food pantries, pregnancy support, refugee resettlement, elder ministry and other programs, as well as the programs and ministries of the Education Vicariate.
The DSA also supports the education of our 46 seminarians, multicultural ministries, the permanent diaconate program, and the annual Eucharistic Congress.
The Education Vicariate receives 31 percent of the funds collected in the campaign. Other DSA funds are allocated to Catholic Charities (30 percent), vocations (14 percent), multicultural ministries (13 percent), the Eucharistic Congress and the Office of Family Life (6 percent). Campaign administrative costs are projected to be 6 percent.
Parishioners in all 92 parishes and missions help fund the annual DSA. Through their contributions, people across the diocese are able to join together to do the Lord’s work – works of love and service that no one person or parish can do alone.
Last year, parishioners surpassed their $6.2 million goal.
Bishop Jugis asks parishioners that, as we celebrate the diocese’s 50th anniversary, we come together as a diocesan family to share God’s love with others through our prayers and financial gifts to the Diocesan Support Appeal, always giving thanks to God for the precious gift of our faith, which truly is “more precious than gold.”
— Catholic News Herald
How to support the DSA
- ONLINE: Go to www.charlottediocese.org/dsa to make a secure online donation.
- PHONE: Call 704-370-3302 to make a gift over the phone.
- ENVELOPE: Mail the pledge card you received in the mail or at Mass to: Diocese of Charlotte, 2022 Diocesan Support Appeal, 1123 S. Church St., Charlotte, N.C. 28203. (Pledges are to be paid by Dec. 31, 2022.)
Questions? Contact David Walsh at 704-370-3302 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..