Strategic Initiative #1

Pursue radical generosity through a capital-raising campaign

Key Teams (who)

  • Executive sponsor: Dave Barrett
  • Project owner: Bryce Neal
  • Project manager: Camille Covington
  • Project team members
    • Donovan Golden -Content collaboration and design/collateral execution
    • Kevin Peck - Key messaging development and delivery, and select donor engagement
    • Ross Lester - Preaching collaboration and planning, key messaging development and delivery, select donor engagement
    • Event support (TBD) - event planning and execution support for Camille
  • Other teams needed for implementation
    • CP’s and CXP’s, all congregations - generosity culture leadership, campaign implementation, donor engagement
    • Creative (communication) - design/collateral execution, sermon series communication, campaign communication: direction for congregational comms, execution for central comms
    • Ministry Operations (finance) - Financial analysis, planning, and campaign tracking, overall project support

Background (why)

One of the key pieces of our vision to be joyfully devoted disciples is that we would be a church of multi-generational investors. Two key aspects of our vision to be multi-generational investors are to maximize our ministry spaces and to create an opportunity-ready balance sheet. Achieving both of these goals will require the active participation of our partners in a capital-raising campaign to pay off debt and also to fund expansions and additions to our ministry spaces.


This initiative will involve pastoral formation in generosity as we invite our partners to more clearly see our vision of being multi-generational investors by giving toward these maximized ministry spaces and paying off debt so that we are ready for new opportunities as they come. There will be a specific capital campaign to raise, over three years, an appropriate cash amount that will be confirmed through the process. This amount will be considered to be incremental to our annual giving and we will aim to engage every partner and involved attender in this vision. The campaign will include a sermon series on what it means to be multi-generational investors.

Goals and Outcomes (what)

In this initiative we desire to raise the funds necessary to maximize our ministry spaces and pay off key debt, while growing the discipleship of generosity among our people. Specifically we aim to:


  1. Raise the appropriate amount in commitments

    The desired outcome is to engage every partner in this vision, and have donation commitments with a plan to realize cash contributions totaling this amount over three years.


  2. Plan and estimate campus facility maximization projects

    The desired outcome is a scope, conceptual design, and preliminary cost estimates to maximize ministry capacity of our current campus facilities, within feasibility of this fundraising amount.


  3. Pay back debt and expenses associated with South Campus

    The desired outcome is to eliminate all the debt associated with our current South Campus building project that is subject to higher interest rates than the rest of our debt portfolio.


  1. Lead toward long-term growth in the culture of generosity among our people

    The desired outcome is to establish competency and ongoing leadership practices of spiritual formation, liturgy, and pastoral contact, to foster a greater culture of discipleship in generosity among our congregations.

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