Last year we took up our special Christmas Collection for Charity for the parish church in the City of Ahepe in Togo, West Africa. The church, Immaculate Conception of the Miraculous Medal of Ahepe, had lost its entire roof due to a violent storm in March 2019. Since then, all Masses and Church celebrations have taken place outside in the open air, under tents and trees, at the mercy of the weather.  Due to your generosity last year, we were able to send them $17,681.00 which assisted them tremendously in starting the replacement of the Church roof.  As you can tell from the pictures, they have made much progress, but much work still needs to be done, and to make matters worse the Church’s rectory was recently robbed.

The parish church of the Immaculate Conception of the Miraculous Medal of Ahepe will again be our special Christmas Charity for this year, in the hope that we will again be able to assist our brothers and sisters in completing the rebuilding of their Church.

St. Mary’s has been taking up a special Christmas collection for 27 years, and all donations received are distributed as a gift from our Parish to different charities. Thanks to your generosity, we have given over $330,000 to special charities over these past 27 years. We know you will be generous, as you have always been, and we thank you for sharing the joy of this holy season with those who are less fortunate.

Please make checks payable to “St. Mary” and include on the Memo Line: Togo Roof. Thank you!