Thank you for sending the consultant to assist Mt. Pisgah Church in our process of growing our ministries here in Greensboro, NC. He has become an integral part of our leadership providing valuable insight and guidance. The assessment phase has been much more comprehensive that I had imagined and has provided great insight that we could not have achieved on our own. He has a great outlook, effectively seeing the underlying issues that feedback has revealed. I particularly am impressed with his approach of seeking out those individuals who may be in disagreement of the plan and initiating a face to face meeting to uncover their real concerns and issues. He has been very effective in capturing the concerns to the point that our leadership team is modifying our proposal to be more in alignment with the predominate issues that have been gleamed from the assessment.
I believe we have a better solution, one that will be more in favor with our congregants and will have a better success of being underwritten due in part to the consultant’s contributions.
Thanks for assigning him to the Mt. Pisgah Church program.
Council Chair
Mt. Pisgah UMC
Greensboro, North Carolina
703-399-0518
info@jdklote.com 



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.
