What a great impact your team has had on our efforts to fund the mission of God at St. John, Cypress! From my initial conversation with other LCMS pastors who have utilized your services and approach, to my initial conversation with you, a brief meeting with Russell Floyd, who visited us before our campaign began, we were encouraged to dream big and plan for God’s powerful movement among the people of God here. Our on-site and on-staff campaign consultant has been exceptionally encouraging and helpful to us in pursuing our goals. Not even Hurricane Harvey was able to thwart God’s plans working through our team, led and encouraged by the consultant. We have experienced God-sized responses to the visits we have made, and look forward to a very good result when the campaign is ended. I heartily recommend the Klote team to anyone considering a Capital Stewardship Campaign.
Senior Pastor
St. John Lutheran Church
Cypress, Texas
703-399-0518 
info@jdklote.com 
Facebook
Twitter 
LinkedIn
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.
