Financial Stewardship for 2024
We all share the ministry of the church!
As we approach the end of a year, I invite you to reflect on where you’ve seen God in and through LNPC this year. How have you seen love, belonging, hope lived out?
PLEDGE NOW FOR 2024
The financial life of LNPC
This congregation’s practices of worship, hospitality and sabbath, seeking live 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!)
*We haven't drawn from the giving of those gone before for the past few years, but we may see them contributing again this year – we’ll know in December whether/how much we may need to take from reserve fund.
No matter how it happens from year to hear, 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 LNPC to minister love and hope into people's lives. We get to be part it right now.
As we approach the end of a year, I invite you to reflect on where you’ve seen God in and through LNPC this year. How have you seen love, belonging, hope lived out?
- How has our life together pointed your life toward the world in love, to seek God alongside others?
- We are all on a journey of deepening trust and growing generosity. Where is your specific joy, challenge, and invitation right now in that journey?
- How does this community support your journey, and how might your giving support our shared faith and life in this chapter? (This question is for all: whether end-of-live estate planning or budgeting out your weekly allowance!)
- What might God be calling you to give to LNPC in the coming year?
PLEDGE NOW FOR 2024
The financial life of LNPC
This congregation’s practices of worship, hospitality and sabbath, seeking live 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 our ministry and help it continue (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!)
*We haven't drawn from the giving of those gone before for the past few years, but we may see them contributing again this year – we’ll know in December whether/how much we may need to take from reserve fund.
No matter how it happens from year to hear, 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 LNPC to minister love and hope into people's lives. We get to be part it right now.
