I just wanted to take a moment to send you a quick thank you for all that your firm, and mostly, for what your consultant was able to provide for us during Phase One of our Capital Campaign here at Central Community Church. A credit to his character, he really became part of our Central family.
The consultant was able to bring his expertise and share his love for the church so that we could ultimately be successful. I am confident that we wouldn’t be where we are today if we hadn’t had him working with us. The benefit of personal visits is something that we continue to talk about and I know the finance team will be working on a similar strategy moving forward into Phase Two.
Our community is so excited about what is before us and we voted (94.5%) at our Annual Business Meeting on April 26, 2015 to move forward with our building project with an estimated budget of $15-$18 million. Our goal for Phase One was to reach $8 million and so far, we’ve received $8.2 million in pledges. What a blessing and we are so thankful!
Thank you again!
Project Manager
Central Community Church
St. Catharines, Ontario
703-399-0518 
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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.
