I am Joe Cumbest, the husband of the 2019 Sr Warden (think chairman of the board) at Christ Church Midland. I am also a founding member of the church and the leader of the Men’s Ministry and a former Vestry Member. As you can figure my wife and I talked about church decisions like the use of outside Capital Campaign support. In the discussion of hiring an outside company for the capital campaign, I told her I opposed using outside support since we should be able to do it ourselves. In this case I was wrong. The consultant has done an outstanding job organizing then plugging himself into Christ Church to ensure the message is communicated.
In my opinion, we would not be at $8.5MM of the $13.5 needed with only 40% pledged without the consultant’s leadership and guidance. Money well spent!
Christ Church
Midland, Texas
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.
