The consultant served us very well during his time here. He was gentle and patient with us while at the same time giving us good advice on how to best proceed with the feasibility study we carried out. It was hard to know what he was thinking, at times, as he did much of his work in private after receiving lots of input from our focus groups. But the report he came up with at the end was fantastic. I was pleasantly surprised at how detailed his report was and how well it was arranged to guide us going forward. He showed in his report that he is good at what he does and his experience with campaigns is being very helpful to us.
Being a pastor it was enjoyable to have some chats with him about “pastor” stuff as well, especially when I had the opportunity to fill him in on the differences between Lutheran church bodies!
I would highly recommend him to others looking for a consultant. We do plan to go forward with our campaign (one final vote needed) and would enjoy having him back with us if that works out.
Manitowoc Lutheran High School
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
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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.
