I will be sharing odd pieces of readings with you over the next year. These are items that I have found to be useful, profound, or attitude changing as it relates to being in community together. Happy reading and let me know your thoughts below. See you all after GA in Charlotte, NC. STEWARDSHIP [...]
I am excited to be beginning my 3rd year championing your stewardship team. Stewardship is more than just the Annual Canvass. Stewardship is more than just the money. Stewardship is about relationships, about dreams, about positive change for a more fulfilling future for our congregation and for the future of Unitarian Universalism. I will be [...]
We are in the final month of the current church year and we need to continue our pledge payments to balance the current year’s budget. We have collected 90% of this year’s pledge totals. Keep up the great work. If you have paid in full, thank you, thank you, thank you. If you only need [...]
This is the percentage of members who have not responded yet with a pledge of support for the new year which starts July 1, 2011. If these remaining pledges ALL submit a pledge at the current year’s level – we will have a 5.6% increase over the current year. Come to the Annual Meeting on [...]
You will receive within the next few days your final statement of pledges and contributions for the current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2011. If the number at the very RIGHT is a negative number – seriously consider a pledge payment – without it, we will be in deficit for the year. If the [...]
With Spring in full bloom and after a successful Auction weekend, please remember to post a pledge for the new year starting July 1st. We need $40,000 in new pledges and pledge increases to balance our budget. Click here to make your pledge today
The Stewardship Team and Pledge Steward is looking to reduce the amount of paper we mail as well as the postage used to send you quarterly statements. We are investigating how to send email updates to each pledging household with a valid email address, once a month, or once a quarter an update that shows: [...]
Our THERMOMETER now reads 78% of our members (156 households) posted pledges totaling $250,000! GREAT NEWS indeed – I was blessed this past Sunday to speak to several people who saw it in their hearts to stretch and promise an increase to their previously posted pledges – THANK YOU. We need another $40,000 to fund [...]
“I believe that this church changes lives for the better and that we’re only getting started. We need to be a congregation of stewards, who understand that the church needs our strong support in order to fulfill our shared mission of transforming ourselves and the world. As stewards, we are caretakers of this institution for a future [...]
As of March 24th (3 weeks from our Kick off) we have 49 out of 193 potential pledging households posted. There are 144 pledging households (75%) to hear back from. Goal: $305,000 Raised to date: $107,000 (as of 3/24/2011) Attend a cottage meeting, READ your brochure that you picked up at church or you can [...]
