St. Lukers – Do we have some celebration news for you!!
We held our first finance meeting of the year. We are so excited to extend a HUGE thank you for your amazing generosity in 2021!!!
For our Advent Celebration offering you gave $73,700 to support children in our area through the United Methodist Children’s Home ministry and St. Luke’s Restoring Hope missions to solve food insecurity and housing instability. We are grateful for the ways you have stepped up to give to this Advent and Christmas eve offering above and beyond our operating expenses. In addition, you gave to children’s ministries supported in the operating budget, helping to raise more than $8,000 for children touched by our Grow ministries on campus.
But that’s not all the good news! We also ended our operating year with a surplus of $132,974! This year your faithfulness and generosity has allowed us to fund our Trustees maintenance reserve, and add new ideas to ministry in the coming year. We began our year of stewardship strong by increasing our estimates of giving from you by $161,164 or 10% over 2020 estimates, with more families giving regularly in 2021 than in many years past.
Proverbs 11:24 – 25 tell us of the replicating nature of generosity.
Those who give generously receive more…. Generous persons will prosper;
those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed” . . .
