2025 Annual Giving PledgeGrateful to God |
October 30, 2024
2025 Stewardship – Grateful to God Dear Fellow Parishioners, As the co-chairs of the 2025 Stewardship Drive, we are taking this opportunity to share with you Emmanuel Church goals for next year. We continue to be blessed in so many ways at Emmanuel. Fr Seth and the talented Lay staff inspire and teach us. Our Music Director Thom Greathouse enriches both our worship services and parish gatherings. We welcome newcomers. We support many active ministries both within and outside our church. We are living out our mission “To Know Christ and to Make Him Known.” Our financial goals for 2025 are simply to be able to meet our regular church expenses totaling approximately $397,500, with additional funds to continue the growth of programs, outreach and maintaining our beautiful historic buildings. Through our ongoing Capital Campaign, we also want to continue to meet our two Endowment Fund loan obligations from the purchase and this year’s completion of major renovations of the 240 Mill Street building. We are pleased to be able to rent a portion of the building to Helping Hands to expand their good work in the community. The balance of the space is used by Thom and his choir and group meetings. Your generosity will help us meet these goals. The church expends about $64 per week, per church family, to support our staff, facilities, programs and services. Since not every family can make this commitment, we are asking our church family as a whole to prayerfully consider increasing your level of giving. Every small increase will make a difference when we work together. Stewardship of our resources is one of the ways in which we worship the God who has given us everything, so let your gift be an act of praise to the Lord. Please return the enclosed 2025 Stewardship and Capital Campaign form on or before Stewardship Sunday, November 10th. You may also complete the form online located at the church website. If we can answer any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of us. In Christ,
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