One Foundation

From the Co-Chairs:

Dear St. Pauls,

We are honored to be serving as Co-Chairs for this year’s St. Paul’s Annual Stewardship Campaign. We feel particularly privileged to be serving during St. Paul’s 150-year sesquicentennial celebration – a year when we have paused to remember and honor our past, celebrate and give thanks for our present, and look forward to and lay a new foundation for our future. The sesquicentennial celebration theme throughout this year has been “One Foundation” derived from the hymn The Church’s One Foundation. In concert with that, our Stewardship Campaign theme this year is One Foundation – One Lord, One Faith, One Birth. Thank you to all of you for your continuous commitment to and support of St. Paul’s. We are constantly reminded that all of us here at St. Paul’s are indeed one family, and that St. Paul’s, together with Christ, serves as One Foundation – One Lord, One Faith, One Birth for all of us.

And like all families, it is prudent to set goals in order to establish an annual operating and capital budget. This year, our Stewardship Campaign goal is $3 million with a participation goal of 625 individuals and families. Last year, St. Paul’s was within $100,000 of reaching the $3 million mark contributed from approximately 590 individuals and families. We are confident that with your continued participation and generosity St. Paul’s will reach these goals. We would like to thank all of you that have been able to join us for one of the small group gatherings for this year’s Stewardship Campaign. We thoroughly enjoyed our time together with you, and we appreciated your coming.

Why should you give to St. Paul’s and its Annual Stewardship Campaign? We suspect that for 150 years many folks at St. Paul’s have been asking themselves this same question, and yet for 150 years the people of St. Paul’s have emphatically answered that question by giving generously. We – all of us – have been and continue to be the beneficiaries of such incredible generosity, but we can do more, and now it is our time to carry the cross forward – to set a new foundation for the next 150 years. It is incumbent upon all of us to participate and to contribute the resources necessary to fuel the continued growth of St. Paul’s. It is not sustainable to think that others will give and therefore I do not need to. We need everyone’s participation and generosity at all levels. Our ask is that you prayerfully consider joining us in this year’s Stewardship Campaign in as significant of a way as you are able. For those of you that gave last year, please consider making a material increase to your pledge this year. And for those of you that did not participate last year, we hope that you will join us this year. Every dollar counts and every dollar is very important.

If we all come together in community and communion in support of St. Paul’s what will St. Paul’s continue to be for this year and for the next 150 years? – One Foundation – One Lord, One Faith, One Birth. If we are able to continue to enjoy and enhance our liturgy, music and services offered in this sacred space, on our beautiful campus and out in the community with our incredible clergy, staff, and lay volunteers, what will St. Paul’s continue to be to all of us and to others? – One Foundation – One Lord, One Faith, One Birth. If we are able to expand St. Paul’s resources to care for more parishioners, to educate and nurture our children, and to expand our outreach to others in the community, what will St. Paul’s continue to be? – One What? - One Foundation – One Lord, One Faith, One Birth.

Again, thank you for your consideration of this year’s Annual Stewardship Campaign and for your continuous commitment to St. Paul’s.

In Peace,

‍Christine Storch, Kathryn Vernon, and David Broughton

One Foundation Stewardship Campaign Co-Chairs

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