Thank you Tom and Maureen!

St. Benedict's Parish is extremely grateful for all the hard work Tom and Maureen Kerr have been doing to get our new website up and running. It was truly an amazing feat to have it ready for the rush of Christmas website searches! Many parishioners may not realize that our new website received well over 150,000 hits in just the first three weeks of December alone. 

Tom engaging our Faith Formation students,
encouraging their participation
in our technological endeavors.

The website looks fantastic - clearly organized, easy to use, and cleanly arranged. The homepage is continually updated with new information.  This is now an ongoing project that demands countless hours of behind-the-scenes work. The new content management system (CMS) allows the parish to rapidly update our website and to extend this ministry to ever-larger groups. Tom is great about increasing participation at every step of the way. You will notice, for example, that our 11th graders in the Faith Formation program have already added their contribution to the homepage and we have been up only a couple of weeks!  There will be much more of this collaborative input coming soon. Video and audio in-house productions, live recordings of Masses and/or homilies, faith testimonies and much more will be appearing in the course of the year.

In addition, Tom wrote the $15,000 grant that the parish recently received from The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. He shepherded us through the exhaustive grant process. This grant award will be used to "foster spiritual growth with adults, families, children, youth, young adults, and the entire community. We hope to revitalize and mobilize our parish by connecting, welcoming and engaging spiritual seekers... By more effectively utilizing digital technologies we will enhance our parish's outreach and engagement efforts." Maureen handles the substantial grant documentation as we proceed.

We will be seeing much more of Tom and Maureen's work in the weeks and months ahead. Please check the parish website often http://www.saintbenedicts.com/. 

There is no doubt that their forward thinking and technological abilities will bear much fruit for the Kingdom of God. In fact, they already have!  Tom and Maureen have already made St. Benedict's a leader in integrated technology in the service of evangelization.

Thank you both!

Technology quick survey results

A sincere "thank you" to all who participated in our technological quick survey this past weekend!
Here are the results:

SAINT BENEDICT SURVEY
SEPTEMBER 17-­‐18, 2011

RESULTS
463 Responses were received including 3 visitor responses

RESPONSES BY AGE
         6‐12                 13‐18                 19­‐25                   26­‐60                61+
  count 13                     19                        13                        203                 214
   %      3%                    4%                       3%                       44%              46%

HAVE YOU USED THE ST. BENEDICT WEBSITE?
270 Yes (58%) 193 No (42%)
        6­‐12                 13­‐18                  19‐25                 26­‐60                61+
 Yes   5                         16                         9                       150                  90
 No    8                           3                         4                         53                 124

DO YOU USE EMAIL?
354 Yes (77%) 109 No (23%)
       6­‐12                  13­‐18                   19­‐25                 26-­‐60              61+
 Yes  7                          19                       13                       162                183
 No   6                           0                          1                         41                  61

INTERESTING FACT:
92 (26%) of the 354 parishioners with email AND have not used the Parish website
       6­‐12                  13­‐18                   19­‐25                 26­‐60                61+
         4                          3                           3                        43                   39

5 Responses added a comment that they had no computers.
We received email addresses from 255 people.