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Message from the Stewardship Team

Every Sunday at services we gather together to build our community. We connect people in a beautiful tapestry of shared meaning and vision of a world that works for all of us. This year’s stewardship theme, Weaving our Community Together, reflects this reality. This is important work and creating a thriving congregation depends upon your creative and financial support.

Our pledge drive will follow last year’s simplified pledging process. Each pledge unit (a single person, couple, or family) will receive a paper pledge form with three options: last year’s pledge plus an inflation adjustment; the same pledge as last year’s; or a different amount. Inflation has affected the church’s expenses as it has in all aspects. If your finances allow it, we ask that you increase your pledge to help us keep up. We know, of course, that some people are on fixed incomes and last year’s pledge is what is achievable. We appreciate this. There is also the opportunity to pledge a different amount if you wish. Perhaps you will decide that this is the year to increase your pledge to a new, higher level to reflect your commitment to our beloved community.

Your pledge covers church operations for the period July 2025 through June 2026. We have fully recovered from COVID and our congregation has begun to grow. We have hired an exceptional administrator and our developmental minister continues to delight us in the pulpit. The kitchen is now fully operational and we hope to use it for many more communal events.

While these things are important, your pledge will also support essential, but mundane, things such as heating and snowplowing.

Our Treasurer has estimated that we will need a program budget of $266,000 to cover all expenses for the next year. Our stewardship booklet provides more information about these anticipated expenses and why they are so important in allowing us to pursue the activities important to our community. If you are new to A2U2 our stewardship booklet will also provide guidance about how much you could consider pledging.

Steve Hansen, Chair

Silvia Hansen, David Wilcock, Pam Jackson