I am the vice-chairman of the First Lutheran, Onalaska Capital Campaign. I wanted to write you a short note to let you know how much I am enjoying working with the consultant from your organization. He has guided us through the Focus Group process with good success and we are now making visits and asking for pledges. He has been very receptive to incorporating our idea’s while keeping us from straying in directions he knows are non-productive. He is putting in a lot of hours to keep to the timeline and in some cases accelerating it per our request. He is always professional but very personable.
The campaign has become the buzz of the congregation which is just what we want, and the vast majority of the buzz is positive. We are looking forward to a successful campaign.
First Lutheran Church
Onalaska, Wisconsin
703-399-0518 
info@jdklote.com 
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Carmel Lutheran Church kicked off its ‘Hearts Compelled To Share’ capital campaign in record style. As of January 25th just 73 families of the more than 900 in the church had already committed $3.75 million dollars. That total represents not only the best kickoff to a campaign at CLC, it also represents the best campaign in total even though only 8% of the congregation has pledged so far.
The previous best campaign was just four years ago when CLC collected a total of about $3 million in pledges from over 425 donors.
"Jim Klote, president of James D. Klote and Associates, a capital stewardship consulting firm based in Fall Church, VA, appears on the big screen during his "All Things New" presentation at this year's Annual Conference session. Klote and Associates will conduct free stewardship education workshops for churches in all 18 districts of the conference this fall.
Participants listen attentively during the church stewardship workshop at Wright's Chapel UMC.The Virginia Conference sponsored series of stewardship workshops in each district is winding down, with two more district gatherings remaining in November.
