STEWARDSHIP 2009

Please consider increasing your pledge!
We need an additional $5,000 in annual support in 2009.
We currently have 183 very generous and committed individual members and family units who have pledged a total of $393,000 in financial support for 2009. We also received a written committment from The Women of St. James' Parish pledging $10,000 in annual support. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has committed their time, talents and treasures to St. James' Parish in this very important and extremely fulfilling act of faith.

If you regularly donate but do not do so in the form of a regular pledge, please prayerfully consider converting your loyal loose offering support into a written annual commitment. If you simply have not yet submitted a written pledge of support for 2009, your Church needs you. There is no such thing as too small of a commitment. We need everyones help and every single dollar adds up to help us meet our budget.

Our budget shortfall requires that we now ask all those who have already pledged to consider increasing your commitment level at this time. After some prayerful consideration you may find it has been some time since you have given your church "a raise", while all the costs to operate our Historic Parish have continued to rise. If it has been some time since you have evaluated your own level of giving, please take a moment and consider increasing your current pledge level in a manner proportionate to which God has shared His Blessings with you.

Your Clergy, Officers, Fellow Parish Members and Vestry Thank You for your consideration.