International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
Spirit Of God Community Inc
CRYSTAL RIVER, FL
Total revenue
$216K
Total expenses
$219K
Net assets
$24K
Grants received
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EIN
237441173
Tax year
2022
Mission
The mission of Pilgrims' Peace Center is to promote peace by spreading the Gospel of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the messages of the Blessed Mother, given at Medjugorje; to provide prayerful, material and medical assistance to the people of Medjugorje, to those in the surrounding region and to others, as needs indicate, by means of personal, hand-to-hand delivery of items such as food and medical supplies and by bringing individuals to the United States for medical care; to facilitate the religious retreat pilgrimages of Pilgrimage Tours, Inc. for the spiritual enrich of all participants; and, in all ways, to give honor and glory to God. The Directors and Operators of Pilgrims' Peace Center are practicing Roman Catholics and, as such, their intent is that the activities of this organization be in accord with the teachings of the Holy Father and the Roman Catholic Church.
Programs
14 programs
Cash to families in need.
Rainbow Project: This project was limited to Irelnd and France this year. Two families were flown from Ireland and spent a week in Paris at Disney World. Each family has a terminally ill child.
Because the management of Spirit of God Community Inc spends so much time each year either in Medjugorje or working directly on programs for the benefit of the people we help, we estimate that 1/3 of the management fee paid to Pilgrimage Tours should be allocated to Program Service expense.
Credit card processing for pilgrimage trip payments.
In April 2021, Christy Galmish died. For many years she had been an active member of Pilgrims' Peace Center, often taking groups on pilgrimage to Medjugorje. After she died, people, many of whom had traveled with her, began sending donations to Pilgrims' Peace Center in her honor. It was decided to set up a fund so her three children could travel to Medjugorje in her honor.
In 2001, Pilgrims' Peace Center brought a seven-year-old with severe Downes Syndrome to the United States for medical treatment. She had been abandoned at the time of her birth. She was adopted by a wonderful family in Gulfport, Florida. Early in 2022, she underwent what should have been a minor surgery but complications developed and she passed away. Pilgrims' Peace Center paid for her funeral.
In 2001, three refugee families moved into a two-story triplex we built in Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina. In 2013, it was discovered that half of the building was on a neighbor's property. Our lawyer was able to negotiate a mutually acceptable agreement with all of them. In 2019 the county approved the new land agreement. About the same time, the county told us that we that the building did not have all the legal building permits. To do that, we had to recreate all the the building drawings. These were submitted to the county building department in the summer of 2020 and approved in 2021 by the County.
St. Joseph the Worker School for the Handicapped Citluk, BIH. We purchased a swing that can accomodate a motorized wheel chair.
A special wheelchair for a paralyzed teenage boy
In between our trips to Medjugorje, Zeljka Rozic administers our projects.
Office expenses for programs
Donation to Holy Family Institute for the Handicapped
St. James Church Medjugorje
As part of legalizing the triplex in Medjugorje we had to have the land surveyed again
Financials
FY 2022
Revenue
Expenses
People
3 listed
Sandra L Tobin
Director President
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20 hrs/wk
Michael E Tobin
Director Sec Treas
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20 hrs/wk
Marianne Scott
Director
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0Independent contractors
Pilgrimage Tours Inc
Provides management, pays salaries and provides office space and equipment.