Financial Stewardship for 2026
SAYING THANK YOU and YES, PLEASE (aka, "Stewardship")
We are church together -all of us- by our loving, serving, learning, praying, giving, listening and sharing. All of this we call this “stewardship”, because together we are all "stewards" of the ministry God is doing in and through LNPC.
Money is one way we contribute as stewards. So, every year, right around Thanksgiving, we are invited to pause and pray:
1- we say THANK YOU to God
What have I seen God do in and through our church community this year? What would I like to thank God for?
2- we say YES, PLEASE to God
What might God do in and through us next year? How is God calling me to contribute to the life and ministry of LNPC in 2026?
3- we respond to what we've discerned
We are church together -all of us- by our loving, serving, learning, praying, giving, listening and sharing. All of this we call this “stewardship”, because together we are all "stewards" of the ministry God is doing in and through LNPC.
Money is one way we contribute as stewards. So, every year, right around Thanksgiving, we are invited to pause and pray:
1- we say THANK YOU to God
What have I seen God do in and through our church community this year? What would I like to thank God for?
2- we say YES, PLEASE to God
What might God do in and through us next year? How is God calling me to contribute to the life and ministry of LNPC in 2026?
3- we respond to what we've discerned
- SHARE YOUR GRATITUDE.
- PLEDGE. Pledging is simply a way of committing to the giving we’ve each discerned God is calling us to for the upcoming year.
- If needed, ADJUST YOUR ONLINE GIVING. If you give automatically online, update to how much you'd like to give in 2026.
The financial life of LNPC
This congregation’s practices of worship, hospitality and sabbath, seeking lives shaped by belonging to God and all others, is financially sustained by:
At different times and in different years, these percentages shift. There are times our building is being used by lots of groups, or we get a big gift from an outside group. There are times those assembled here now can give more. And there are times we are more upheld by those gone before. (At one point, for several years up to 30% of revenue was from our reserve fund – gifts of those gone before!)
No matter how it happens from year to year, what’s consistent is this: The Church belongs to God, to share in God's ministry in the world. For over 100 years, God has guided, provided for, and moved through this congregation of the Church to minister love and hope into people's lives. We get to be part it right now.
This congregation’s practices of worship, hospitality and sabbath, seeking lives shaped by belonging to God and all others, is financially sustained by:
- The Giving of those of us sharing faith and life here and now. (The past year approx. 70%)
- Donations from outside our community by those who are inspired, grateful, and want to support God's ministry through LNPC (The past year approx. 8%)
- Donations by those who share space in our building and our mission of hospitality (The past year approx. 22%)
- The giving of those who’ve gone before us. They are no longer here with us in embodied form, but are nevertheless participating in the ongoing, current life of the congregation because they gave in faith for what God would do in the future. They invested then in what God is doing now. We ALL belong to each other! (The past year, 0%)
At different times and in different years, these percentages shift. There are times our building is being used by lots of groups, or we get a big gift from an outside group. There are times those assembled here now can give more. And there are times we are more upheld by those gone before. (At one point, for several years up to 30% of revenue was from our reserve fund – gifts of those gone before!)
No matter how it happens from year to year, what’s consistent is this: The Church belongs to God, to share in God's ministry in the world. For over 100 years, God has guided, provided for, and moved through this congregation of the Church to minister love and hope into people's lives. We get to be part it right now.
