Keeping the heat on - Finances in the Diocese of Fairbanks

Keeping the heat on - Finances in the Diocese of Fairbanks

It takes a lot of money to run a parish or diocese.Personnel, property, and insurance costs quickly add up, no matter where you live. But few dioceses have a budget line for snowmobiles and bush plane flights, or operating costs for remote parishes that cannot be accessed by road.Cargo being loaded off of a small plane in an Alaskan village. Photo courtesy of Bishop Steven Maekawa.The Diocese of Fairbanks has that.Spanning the northern 409,849 s…