I’m an associate priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jackson, Wyoming. It has been a pleasure having our Klote consultant here, helping us to assess the potential of doing a capital campaign to construct a new building on our campus, and now to implement the campaign. He is a kind and compassionate man, a wonderful communicator, who clearly knows his stuff. He gently but firmly led us through the feasibility study portion of the work, and is now supporting and guiding us through the early, “quiet” phase of fundraising. I have not been active in the fundraising yet, but, God willing, we will enter a more public phase soon, and I look forward to working more closely with him when we do.
I like to think that St. John’s is a somewhat eccentric church, and I don’t know if he would agree, but he is a quick study and has adapted his style to fit our ethos. He is a good man and a competent professional. You are lucky to have him on your team, as are we.
St. John's Episcopal Church
Jackson, Wyoming
703-399-0518
info@jdklote.com 



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.
