Today at 10:30AM, this parish exceeded its capital fund drive goal of $500,000. Oh, what a feeling! This parish for the first time in its recent history has a victory. We are off and running to a new and exciting future. Raising the money was the first step to this new future and your firm, and in particular your director has enabled this to happen.
Your director came to us on January 23 and met with the fledgling executive committee of the campaign and immediately became “one of us.” His professional approach to every phase and aspect of the campaign brought about the successful completion of our new beginning. He knows the plan and encouraged and enabled us to gain our victory by working the plan. You might say he held our hand as we took this scary journey. Without him and the firm of James D Klote & Associates (JDK&A), we would not only not have attained this high level of success, we would never have had the wherewithal to attempt to raise this much money.
The money is important, but I cannot say enough in regard to the effects of just being successful will have on our future. Now we can see that if we try, we can succeed. The ministry of this parish will benefit from this new image more than anything. Our future is bright and where we are going God only knows, but we now know that we can get there if we venture forth and do the best we can do. JDK&A has my personal highest esteem and I would recommend them to anyone.
The Episcopal Parish of St. David
Minnetonka, Minnesota
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.
