Home Page Ministries | Music | Other Web Sites Prayers | Sacraments | Vision for the Future Building Our Family of Faith The Catholic Community of Pleasanton Background In the late 1980's, this parish community decided that the Church facilities at St. Augustine (on Bernal Avenue) had become too small to accommodate the growing Catholic Community in and around Pleasanton. After much discussion, it was decided to build a second Church facility on property that the Diocese of Oakland had procured a decade earlier on Stoneridge Drive. We developed these facilities to meet our most immediate needs. First, we built office space, meeting space, and a chapel in which smaller Masses and liturgies could be held. Then on March 5, 2000, we celebrated the first Mass at the new church of St. Elizabeth Seton. John Paul II Activity Center Capital Campaign Now we come to the third phase that will further meet the needs of our whole parish community. A plan has been developed fot the John Paul II Activity Center, a multi-purpose building that will be dedicated for all parish activities, especially for the use of the young people of our parish and named for the Pope who had such love and affection for them. The new building will contain a full-size gymnasium in which our Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) teams can practice and play their inter-parish games. For many years, our CYO program had scrambled to find and rent gym space where our teams can practice and play. The small gym at St. Augustine Hall is not regulation size and can be used only for thid and fourth grade games. Also, it is only minimally available during weekday afternoons and evenings because of the Hall's use by our Faith Formation program. Presently, our CYO basketball program involves 534 participants and 124 coaches and volunteers. There are 32 boys teams and 20 girl teams, third grade through eighth grade. This new building will also contain three meeting rooms (classroom size) that can be used for Faith Formation classes as well as adult meetings. One of these rooms will double in size and will be used primatrily by our High School Youth Ministry program. In addition, there will be a Child Care room for children from 6 months to 3 years old who can be watched while their parents are at Mass or attending other adult activities at St. Elizabeth Seton. Finally, there will be a large, carpeted multi-purpose room what will seat up to 200 and can be used for larger meetings, receptions, and socials. There will be a well equipped caterers' kitchen off of this room. The whole complex, as presently envisioned, would cover about 21,000 sq. ft. It will be built on the 51,000 sq. ft. of St. Elizabeth Seton property that borders Rheem Drive, on the other side of the main parking lot opposite the Church. Not counting setbacks and sidewalks, we will be developing about 31,000 sq. ft. of this property, complete with a large lawn area suitable for some outdoor activities for youth or adults. No additional parking will be required for this new facility, especially since activities in the gym will not be scheduled during Sunday worship services in the Church. A committee composed of members of the Parish Staff, Parish Council, and CYO have unanimously chosen John Miller Architects to help design our new Center, chosen from a list of four approved architects by the Diocese of Oakland. The total cost of this new facility, while not firm, is estimated at approximately $5 million. This cannot be met through the ordinary income of the parish. Therefore, we are planning to launch a parish-wide capital campaign. Prior to this launch, we are seeking input from all registered parishoners. Fundraising efforts The costs of any further building will require the commitment of the vast majority of our parishioners. The main source of funding for building the church at St. Elizabeth Seton had been through three-year pledges made by some 1,018 of our parishioner families. A similar effort, but for possibly five years, will be required for this and any future building projects.

St. Augustine Church St. Elizabeth Seton Church Diocese of Oakland Pleasanton, California (925) 846-4489 October 30, 2005 Pastor: Fr. Dan Danielson CCOP Web Team

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