Campaign Timeline
Since January 2024, parishioners across all 90 parishes in the diocese have come together in faith and generosity to support the One Family, Fully Alive in Christ! Campaign. As of summer 2025, the campaign has concluded active fundraising in the third and final wave of parishes across the diocese. Final campaign results will be announced to the diocesan family in mid-September.
Wave 1: January – June 2024 (Recap)
Wave 2: July – December 2024 (Recap)
Wave 3: January – June 2025
Campaign Goals and Funding
The Fully Alive! Campaign is funding five key priorities: strengthening our Catholic schools, forming young people in the faith, serving neighbors in need, caring for our mother church, and enlivening our parishes. In so many ways, your support of this historic campaign will enliven our Catholic Church locally and regionally, as together we embrace the call to live as missionary disciples.
*Note: The chancery is covering all campaign expenses which means 100% of individual gifts and pledges will directly support the five campaign priorities
Catholic School Teacher Salary Enhancements
$15 million
Your investment in teachers is more than just offering higher salaries – it’s ensuring the long-term vitality of Catholic education for our diocese and children. With higher compensation, teachers will be free to focus on what they love – their vocation – rather than how to make ends meet. And in turn, children and families will benefit from educators who are more present, more energized and more committed to their students’ formation.
As of January 2025, initial deposits were made into 38 new teacher salary enhancement endowments. Thanks to your on-going commitment, annual deposits will continue based on redeemed pledge payments.
Restoration of the Cathedral Domes and Windows
$12 million
As a result of this campaign’s success, we are now able to restore our cathedral’s beautiful domes by replacing the copper and the original, hand-made stained-glass windows will be cleaned and re-leaded. Repairing the cathedral is not only about preserving the past but also preparing for the future. Future priests preaching from the ambo. Future second graders dressed in their finest to receive first communion. Future couples holding hands as their marriage is consecrated. Your generosity means final bids have been approved; work is in progress, and we anticipate finishing by fall of 2027. We are confident that the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will shine brightly as the spiritual home for future generations of our diocesan family.
Individual Parish Needs
$10 million
For the first time in our recent diocesan history, every one of our 90 parishes took part in a unified campaign – truly coming together as one family, answering the call to live as missionary disciples. Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of more than 11,000 donors, parishioners across the diocese will see real, visible signs of renewal in their own backyards. Thanks to your generous support, projects selected by pastors and parishes will benefit from funds raised through this campaign. From Adoration chapel renovations to expanded youth programs and church repairs, these projects have been dreams for many years – reality is now taking root in communities across south central and southeast Kansas.
The Father Emil J. Kapaun Family and Youth Camp
$8 million
Families and youth from every corner of our diocese now have a peaceful place to retreat from the noise of daily life—and return to what matters most: faith, family, and formation. You made this possible by supporting the Fr. Emil J. Kapaun Family & Youth Camp – a sacred space inspired by a hometown hero and built for future saints.
But Camp Kapaun is more than a summer camp. It’s a home of spiritual renewal for Catholics across the diocese. Parish retreats, family weekends, youth formation, and quiet moments of prayer – you’ve helped create a space where saints-in-the-making will be shaped, and one encounter at a time. And we’re just getting started. As new cabins are constructed and new programs that we’ve long dreamed of hosting become a reality, this camp will continue to serve every member of our diocesan family.
In Love of God and Neighbor Fund
$5 million
As Catholics, we are answering the call to live out the Gospel in our daily lives, and one of the most profound ways we do this is by caring for the poor and vulnerable in our communities. In keeping with this call, we are tithing a portion of the funds raised in this campaign to support the needs of the poor and marginalized through the In Love of God and Neighbor Fund.
Frequently Asked Questions
Preparations for the campaign began in spring of 2023. The active campaign took place in three parish waves beginning in January of 2024 and concluding in June of 2025.
If you are interested in making a gift or pledge, please call 316-269-3917 for more information or visit our online giving portal. Mailed gifts can be sent to: Fully Alive! Campaign, 424 N. Broadway, Wichita KS 67202
Over the course of the campaign, every Catholic household in each parish in the diocese was invited to consider making a gift. Broad participation at every level served as a sign of our unity and strength and a witness to our stewardship way of life. Every gift, no matter the amount, made a difference!
Stewardship of treasure is, and always will be, the primary source of funding for our parishes and schools. This campaign sought extraordinary gifts to address specific and additional projects and priorities. Families were encouraged to consider a sacrificial gift above and beyond their regular ongoing support of their parish, school and other causes.
Our parish families stepped up to the challenge! From December 2024 to June 2025, ordinary parish giving increased by 6.9% compared to the 18 months prior. This encouraging trend reflects the generosity of our faith family and shows that while supporting the campaign, parishioners continued to give faithfully to their local parishes.
With God’s help, the campaign complemented and enhanced the ongoing work of cultivating stewardship at the parish level while also addressing significant needs and opportunities that go well beyond what one individual or parish could accomplish on their own.
Questions? Contact us!
If you have any questions or would like more details about the One Family, Fully Alive in Christ! Campaign, please contact the Office of Development and Planned Giving.
Office of Development and Planned Giving
Catholic Diocese of Wichita
424 N. Broadway, Wichita, KS 67202
(316) 269-3917