Estimate of Giving for 2024
From Pastor John Allen:
Each year, we ask our church to submit Estimate of Giving cards so we can be good stewards and plan the budget for next year. This is an opportunity to reflect on your time, talents, and treasures. Boldly and prayerfully, let’s be the joyful, generous people of Stonebridge UMC.
Below you will find a Step Chart that displays the giving levels of our congregation. I invite you to find your level of giving and prayerfully consider stepping up one level in 2024.
Each family can respond by turning in an Estimate of Giving card or submitting the form online.
This has been a year of regrouping and rebuilding. We have had several staff changes and our Leadership Board is taking the necessary steps to lead the church back to vitality. We see new faces joining us for worship every week, and our youth ministries have continued to grow rapidly since summer. All of this is possible based on the support of this local body of believers through our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. We do this because we believe in Jesus and we believe in His Church.
The events of the past few years have reminded me that, more than ever, the world needs the Church. The world needs the hope of Jesus Christ-the embodied, living demonstration of God’s love and kindness in the world through the church.
Prayerfully consider how God wants you to participate in the work of the Church through your gifts in 2024. We will consecrate our commitments to God in worship Sunday, November 12.
We believe in the Church, and we are better together. Let us make Stonebridge UMC the most joyous place on earth.
Pastor John Allen
