As we look ahead to the wonderful opportunity to share the $13+ million Capital Campaign results with our National Presbyterian Church community in a few weeks, we are incredibly grateful for the support of the consultant and the entire Klote team throughout his effort.
From the earliest days of the Campaign as we were setting expectations and recruiting the team, the consultant was a thoughtful and wise guide. He helped us to set an ambitious goal, in line with our congregation’s capacity and our need for resources to execute our plans to improve our facilities and extend our mission. The consultant’s ability to put our Campaign’s goals and approach in context based on his experience and the Klote model’s strengths put us on a path to success.
As you know, managing the logistics for such a broad campaign while making sure each contact is personal and effective is a challenge. The consultant excelled on engaging at both levels, and we were able to turn to him for both ‘big picture’ context on our progress and problem-solving support for specific circumstances. He is exemplar as an available, responsive and wise consultant.
The consultant’s Midwestern steadiness and understatedness worked particularly well for a group of beltway risk-identifiers and over-thinkers, and we’re grateful for his presence with us this past year. Even after the formal campaign period, we continue to enjoy his strong engagement by counsel and encouragement, during our on-going efforts.
Looking ahead to the next several years we know, of course, that we have a tremendous amount to do to follow through with our pledgers, engage new church community members, and steward the careful investment of our Campaign funds for use in our facilities and ministry. As we do so, it’s encouraging to know that the consultant, and Klote resources more broadly, continue to be accessible to us.
We are very grateful to you for sending the consultant to us and thank God for your faithful stewarding of us through this stewardship season for us.
Co-Chairs
The National Pres. Church
Washington, DC
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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.
