Learn more below about how the Preservation & Promise Campaign will preserve our historic building, and help our parish lead our ministries well into the 21st century.
Our campaign has two key aims. First, we must complete an unprecedented Preservation effort to address the slow, weather-related damage to the church’s exterior that will critically threaten the building’s structural integrity if left unaddressed. Secondly, we aim to invest in the programs, leaders, tools and technology that willnurture the faith lives of all who come through our doors for years to come.
Restore all church windows and skylights, including stained glass windows
Build additional restrooms and other upgrades to make our building more accessible to all
Install a state-of-the-art fire alarm system
Begin urgent restorations to the church organ
Restore church pews and replace kneelers.
Restore and repair wear and damage to the cladding on the church’s spires, roofing and masonry
Replace completely the building’s exterior lighting systems to fully illuminate the church.
Take a look through some of the lesser visited regions of the church to see the damage that needs to be addressed.
Our magnificent church is the legacy of a dynamic and continuous Jesuit presence in San Francisco from the city’s earliest days. Each generation of our community has adapted, persevered, and bequeathed a rich heritage that we honor, while adapting to be a light to our community in our own time.
Strengthen our advocacy and direct service to “the least of our sisters and brothers” (Matthew 25)
Endow funds for Faith Formation and Social Ministry, allowing us to hire a new Director of Social Ministry to coordinate our ministries and form key local, regional and global partnerships
Fund innovative new programs and spaces for more effective outreach to our community
Comprehensively upgrade our hardware and software platforms to meaningfully integrate our “virtual parishioners.”
Throughout the course of the global Covid-19 pandemic, despite the challenges of providing health and security in the church, access to worship and ministries online, and administration of sacramental rites to parishioners, St. Ignatius was able to come together as a parish to provide nearly all of these, with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, St. Ignatius Church has striven to provide a spiritual lifeline to parishioners both here in the Bay Area, while offering digital services and ministries to people across America and around the world. Here are some highlights from the past year.
“Whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
2 Corinthians 9:6-9