Wesley United Methodist Church
Campaign Purpose
Wesley United Methodist church took on debt to began expanding their church campus to build their facilities and enhance their mission and ministry. The result is their spacious and impressive campus where their faith-community gathers to worship, learn, and serve.
Debt
Addressing their need to pay off their debt would allow them to direct their member’s generosity to mission and ministry instead of continually servicing their debt. Walsh was first brought in to help church leadership plan for a successful campaign by undertaking a feasibility and planning study. Understanding gained from the study then guided their Onward, Accelerating Paying Down Our Debt campaign to reduce their building mortgage.
Campaign Success
Members showed their appreciation for their beautiful facilities and community and generously exceeding their campaign goal. Their sacrifice and generosity enabled the church to greatly reduce its debt and monthly interest payments.
Testimonials
“This was a different approach to fundraising for our church. Our consultant did a great job of reassuring our campaign volunteers to follow the Walsh plan. She took our fears to cheers at the end of the campaign as we surpassed our prior campaign by over 50%. Thank you to our consultant and Walsh & Associates!”
– Pete Haayen, Community Gifts Co-Chair
“We had several people, including myself, who had serious doubts about the process and found ourselves making a total turn-around by the end. Thank you to our consultant for hanging in there with us. ”
– Nancy Haayen, Community Gifts Co-Chair
“The orientation materials were A+, and the case statement and theme were excellent. The special cards, tables and system used at commitment weekend were excellent. The final report was so professional, clear, and thorough and provided lots of follow-up options. ”
– Catherine Dierschke, Youth & Children’s Gifts Co-Chair
Campaign Highlight
Campaign Goal
Amount Raised
Helping Churches Reach New Heights in their Capital Campaigns
Our mission is to be great stewards, to live up to the Parable of Talents and to bring out the best in those we serve. Our consistent and proven-to-be-successful approach to directing church capital campaigns helps assure this. We just work with churches, only do capital campaigns and ground them in prayer, scripture and sound stewardship teachings. Then we combine this with practical, proven-to-be-most-productive operating methods. This not only assures you of getting the best results and best return on your capital campaign investment financially, but also, that your church will grow spiritually and in community and will be more equipped and excited than ever about doing God’s will through the works of your church.
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