Saint Matthew Church
Campaign Purpose
Saint Matthew Church’s Faithful Foundations capital campaign exemplified faith in action. It was a Spirit-led effort to reduce debt, update facilities, and invest in long-term mission impact. Partnering with Walsh, they conducted a feasibility and planning study and then launched their campaign to align their physical space and financial structure with their core mission: to develop deeply formed faith, nurture family wholeness, support positive aging, and communicate God’s radical love. We were proud to walk alongside them as they discerned, planned, and launched their visionary initiative.
Maintenance & Upgrades
Key facility upgrades were at the heart of the campaign. Plans included modernizing HVAC, AV, and lighting systems, improving their parking lot, creating a new playground, and transforming their teen center into a dynamic indoor/outdoor space. Their plans will enhance their building to support life-changing ministry in every corner.
HVAC Upgrades Begun
Within a few months of finishing the active part of the campaign, donors were making an impact. The church had begun working with HVAC companies to plan the replacement of their over thirty year old HVAC units.
Debt Reduction & Maintenance Reserve Fund
Financial health was another major campaign goal. Primarily, they committed to reducing a large portion of their debt to free resources for mission. Then they planned to build a dedicated Maintenance Reserve Fund to ensure proactive care for their facility. Both of these goals were set toward preserving what generations have built and stewarding it wisely for those to come.
Debt Significantly Reduced
Shortly after the end of the active portion of their campaign, Saint Matthew significantly strengthened their financial future by paying $300,000 of their debt!
Mission Improvements
Looking outward, their campaign plans also included a bold initiative designed to support social innovation in their community – a forward-thinking strategy to keep Saint Matthew engaged, generous, and adaptable in its witness.
Campaign Success
The response from the Saint Matthew congregation was inspiring. Through prayerful commitment and extraordinary generosity, members supported the church’s plans. Their success reflects a shared vision, strong leadership, and a deep desire to be a church that builds for both today and tomorrow.
At Walsh & Associates, it was a joy and an honor to serve Saint Matthew in their journey. The Faithful Foundations campaign was more than a success story, it was a testimony to what God can do through a community united in faith, purpose, and generosity.
Testimonials
“Eliminating debt frees us to retire significant resources into people, into life changing programs, ministry, and community partnerships. Every dollar towards debt reduction helps us respond more boldly to what God has in store for our church’s future.”
– Pastor Rustin Comer, Saint Matthew Church, Walnut Creek, CA
Campaign Highlight
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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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