2014 Annual Report

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

Worship Serve Grow

TOGETHER

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BMPC ... TogetherWhat a joy it is to worship, serve, and grow - together - as a church family. Whether we come from across the street or miles away, we are drawn here to be a part of an inviting, supportive community of faith. This is a place where we join together to nurture our relationship with God, enjoy fellowship, share life’s ups and downs, and find ways to care for neighbors near and far. Together, we work toward the wholeness promised by Jesus. Together, we search for and discover God’s presence in our lives and the meaning that brings. Together, we listen as the Spirit calls us and empowers us to live as faithful disciples.

We worship to glorify God…with thoughtful services in the Chapel and Sanctuary; the beautiful music of our choirs and organ; the messages of our Children’s Moment and Sunday School programs; the celebration of communion and baptism; the joyful sounds of our Sunday Youth Gathering in the gym; the spiritual nurturing of members who are sick or homebound.

We serve both spiritual and physical needs…directing cars in our parking lot; knitting prayer shawls; answering the church phone; delivering flowers; preparing communion; making meals; offering a ride; sending care packages to students; singing in a choir; serving on a committee; washing dishes; lending a hand. We work with partners around the world to feed the hungry and care for the sick; we welcome students through our tutoring program; we send volunteers throughout Philadelphia.

We grow in faith and understanding… attending classes; asking questions; hearing sermons; participating in Bible study; listening to guest speakers; reading books from our library; discussing our beliefs with others; making new friends at Wednesday night dinners; giving of ourselves in ways that can make a difference.

Together we are the church of Jesus Christ, formed by the Spirit and called to live in the hope of God’s promises and according to God’s purposes - in our everyday lives, in our homes, in our greater communities, and in our wider world.

In 2014...We welcomed the Rev. Rachel Pedersen as Associate Pastor for Children and Family Ministry and the Rev. Richard Wohlschlaeger as part-time Interim Associate Pastor for Senior Adults and Pastoral Care, and we said goodbye to to the Rev. Jacqui Van Vliet and the Rev. Dr. R. Charles Grant.

Our Session:• Convened a Property Vision Team of lay leaders to develop a strategic plan for how to use

our campus to better support our congregation's mission and priorities• Through the Personnel Committee of Session, worked on new documents with the

Middleton Center and the Weekday School to define our relationship with these important ministries of our church

• Approved the retirement of a frozen pension plan, freeing up future monies to support benevolences and programs of the church

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2014 Official Boards

Membership ReportMembership as of 12/31/13 .......................................................2,621Received by Certificate of Transfer ................................................ 15Received, 17 & under ......................................................................24Received, 18 & over........................................................................ 26Deaths .............................................................................................31Removed from Active Roll............................................................. 28Transferred to Other Churches ........................................................9Active Membership as of 12/31/14 ............................................2,618Adult Baptisms ................................................................................. 1Infant Baptisms ............................................................................. 26Marriages ..........................................................................................6

SessionSteve Udicious, Clerk

Elder Class of 2015Bill Black Karen Dunkman Laura Getty+David Heaton+Eli Bravo(Y)Graham Small(Y)Suzanne VanderVeer+Krista Vaughan Janet White

Elder Class of 2016Brad BaturkaJen Bowers +Susan Bravo +Bob Guthrie +Amy HughartSusan Joseph +Eric Swanson

Elder Class of 2017Bill AdelhelmJohn Frazier+Janet HaasMorris KayMary Beth Pratt+Steve Udicious (Clerk)+Susie Valerio

Deacon Class of 2015Tim Callahan(Y)Linda Callans Dave Hastings Jen Huth Debbie Kay Donna Richards-Bank+Elaine Robertson+Julia Udicious(Y)Kathy Wynn+Flo Zeller

Deacon Class of 2016Emily CieriBryan HauptfuhrerCraig JohnsonLaurie KoziolChris Libson +Jane MackieBill Matthai +Diana Rossi +Janney Ryan +Holly StaffordGretchen Steck +

Deacon Class of 2017 Tim BickhartDarryl Brown+Anne ChamberlinMary Beth ChelohaMarian ChitesterKirstin Engelman+Linda Griska+Tod GuernseyMary Hodgkinson+Julia KoeppeKay Miller+Didi RiegerCindy Stewart+

Trustee Class of 2015Martin BondKeith Brinks+Fred Fletcher+ Kevin Roller+Brian Walsh Nancy Wolcott+

Trustee Class of 2016Mark DawejkoTom Gadsden +Peggy HermannMeg Holdsworth +Kevin NicholsonNancy Page

Trustee Class of 2017Bill Bosch+Judy EhrmanJean HuntJonathan LiggettCarol Pyle+Rick Ware+ (President)

(Y) Indicates a youth serving a one-year term as Elder or Deacon.

+ Indicates a person is serving his/her second three-year term.

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Installation of Our New Spire

Our Sanctuary tower’s stone, masonry and carpentry work was completed and the scaffolding removed by Christmas 2013, but our spire was still absent when 2014 began. Our new spire with its aluminum and steel frame covered by lead-coated copper was soon completed, and its arrival was an exciting day in the life of our church.

The new spire matches the 35-foot profile and patina of the former 1930s spire which had deteriorated to the point of requiring replacement. Installation day for the replica was set for March 28 and a large crane lifted the spire into position on top of the tower. Despite dreary weather conditions, a crowd gathered to witness this “once a century” occasion and to touch

the spire’s tip before it rose to the top of the Bryn Mawr skyline.

On the following Sunday, March 30, we celebrated the installation of our new spire and re-dedicated our carillon.

Other work made possible by the Forward in Faith Capital Campaign that was completed in 2014:• The Radnor Street parking lot was closed while scaffolding

was in place from July - Nov. for roof replacement and stone/flashing repairs on the Ministries Center and Converse House.

• The roof over the main doors of the Sanctuary was replaced, the stone surveyed around the Sanctuary perimeter, and exterior repairs to the Education Building were completed.

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TOGETHERWorship

Not long ago I was on an airplane, and I slowly began to realize that the music that was playing as we boarded was familiar. Completely out of context, it took me a minute to realize it was the tune to Marty Haugen’s hymn, “All Are Welcome,” which is in our new Presbyterian hymnal:

Let us build a house where love can dwellAnd all can safely live,A place where saints and children tell How hearts learn to forgive.Built of hopes and dreams and divisions,Rock of faith and vault of grace;Here the love of Christ shall end divisions; (These and the following verses are followed by this refrain:)All are welcome, all are welcome, All are welcome in this place.

Our hope is that anyone who enters worship at BMPC will find welcome: welcome among our church members, welcome into the outstretched arms of a loving God. Children are welcome with their wide-eyed wonder. Youth are welcome with their bold questions. Saints and sinners together are welcome. The curious, the doubtful, the seekers and all newcomers are welcome.

By our worship we acknowledge that everything of value comes from God: life and abundant blessings, the beauty of creation, the gifts of human diversity, and genuine intergenerational community of being the church of Christ together. The experience of God’s grace sends us into the many and varied places of home and work, school and community, as if humming a familiar hymn of God’s love and faithfulness. By worshipping together, we are equipped and energized to live the faith wherever we go from this place.

Let us build a house where love is foundIn water, wine and wheat:A banquet hall on holy ground,Where peace and justice meet.Here the love of God, through Jesus,Is revealed in time and space;As we share in Christ that feast that frees us:All are welcome, all are welcome, All are welcome in this place.

TheRev.Dr.AgnesW.Norfleet

“Children’s Moments” were offered weekly at the 10:00 a.m. service.

The Rev. Jacqui Van Vliet led Ash Wednesday worship in the Chapel.

The Rev. Dr. Agnes Norfleet, Pastor/Head of Staff, served her second year here.

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In 2014, music enhanced these special events:• Evensong worship with our Bryn Mawr Choir

School • Good Friday worship with the Bryn Mawr

Chamber Singers • Singing the Whole Story, a hymn festival led

by our Sanctuary Choir (10:00 a.m. worship)• The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass with

our Sanctuary Choir (10:00 a.m. worship)• Rutter’s Requiem with our Bryn Mawr Choir

School for All Saints Sunday (10:00 a.m. worship)

• Advent Lessons and Carols with all BMPC choirsConcerts were presented by organists Olivier Latry, Shin-Young Lee, Thierry Escaich, and our own Jeffrey Brillhart and Edward Landin, and the treble choristers of the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys also performed.

Our combined choirs presented Advent Lessons and Carols.

Our youth band enhanced our Sunday gathering for grades 6 - 12.

The Rev. Charles Grant led our “Blessing of the Animals.”

The Rev. Rachel Pedersen held one of 26 children who were baptized.

We worshiped at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. each Sunday.

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BMPC has Congregation-Wide Days of Service three times a year and casserole blitzes monthly, as well as a variety of other service opportunities. Highlights of 2014 included two collections of gently-used household items for Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore and a “Stop Hunger Now” event at which 90 of our members—ages 4 to 84—had a blast packing up meals to be sent around the world.

We’re also involved with the The Interfaith Hospitality Network, which houses families as they transition to permanent housing. Our church contributes financially and also welcomes IHN guests several times during the year, providing them with sleeping quarters and meals made by volunteers.

Our Tutoring Program is now 50 years old! We welcome 50 children from William Dick Elementary School in North Philadelphia on each of two nights a week for most of the school year. Each student is paired with a local high school student as their tutor, and the pair develops a relationship across cultural and economic barriers over the year, as the elementary school students receive reading help and educational enrichment.

Our goal this year has been to deepen our relationships with each of our grant recipients, so that in each case the partnership extends well beyond the grant itself. Several of these organizations have worked with us in hosting our members for our Days of Service; we have invited representatives to speak to a council meeting or to lead a Sunday morning class; and we had participation from most of these organizations at our first annual Mission Summit in May.

The Rev. Dr. Nicole Duran

TOGETHERServe

Our choir travelled to Germany for a mission tour.

Volunteers of all ages helped make 1,600+ casseroles to feed the hungry.

Our tutoring program celebrated its 50th year. Our first “Stop Hunger Now” event provided 10,000 packaged meals.

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Gently-used items were collected for “ReStore.”

The Advent Gift Market raised $19,601 in donations given as “gifts.”

Our high school youth went on a mission trip to Belize.

In addition to hands-on help, we offered financial support...

Outreach Grants:• Broad Street Ministries• Camp Kirkwood• West Kensington Ministries• Central Presbyterian Church of Norristown• Arch Street Pre-school• Interfaith Center of Philadelphia• Habitat Philadelphia• United Community Clinic• WePAC• Build-it-Bus• Urban Tree Connection

Eugene C. Bay Fund Grants:• ArtWell – Funding for EcoArts, ArtWell’s new

ecological awareness and gardening curriculum offered in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club in Chester

• The Mission Lab at Beacon – A project of the Beacon Arts and Community Program to help area churches design community outreach and building partnerships and relationships with their neighbors

• The Common Place – An outreach initiative of Wayne Presbyterian Church for after-school programs and alternative worship for the community near Cornerstone Academy

• The Center for Returning Citizens – a program for summer and after-school services for children of incarcerated parents, returning citizens and other at-risk youth

Worldwide Ministries Grants:Schaull Awards:

• Medical Benevolence Foundation, supporting a dialysis machine in Kenya

• Fortaleza, a project of ConeXion Mosaico, doing community development in the slums of Mexico City

BMPC Grants: • Presbyterian World Mission, Peru• Faith in Practice, Guatemala • SEGA Girls School, Tanzania• Emmanuel Hospital, India• Beyond Borders, Haiti• Borderlinks, US/Mexico• Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel,

Israel• Friends of Forman College, Pakistan• Hands Along the Nile, Egypt

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TOGETHERGrow

It’s the joyful noise as we gather for a week of Vacation Bible Camp. It’s the energy you feel as students move from the pews, to the chancel, to the Education Building on Sunday morning. It’s the insight that comes from classrooms and the love shared by dedicated teachers each and every week. It’s 100 people gathered for family fun on a Friday night. It’s 37 storybook Bibles, 28 third grade Bibles, and another 25 hymnals given to help students learn. It’s the laughter on our playground, continuing a great tradition of learning at the Weekday School. It’s the grace extended as children are marked as Christ’s own in the sacrament of Baptism. Each and every day, we grow together in grace and in faith.

It’s a van full of students heading to Washington D.C. for a week of service. It’s the important conversations shared over meals after a hard day’s work in Belize. It’s the Spirit moving as we gather for worship and the opportunity to share our faith on Youth Sunday. It’s a jam-packed week at Camp Kirkwood. It’s the relationships developed over a year of Confirmation, surrounded by teachers and mentors. It’s the energy at an “Upward” basketball game while we cheer and coach. It’s the leadership we share on Student Serve. It’s the faith formed and nurtured that accompanies our seniors when they graduate. Each and every day we grow together in the Spirit and in life.

It’s welcoming world-renowned theologians and community leaders to our congregation. It’s creating space for important conversations. It’s digging deep into scripture and finding answers to complex questions. It’s reaching out with Community Forums that challenge and inspire. It’s reading a book, watching a movie, dissecting the news in light of our beliefs. It’s discovering what it means to be fed and to feed others with our study of a common theme. It’s placing our faith in conversation with our daily lives. It’s equipping one another to speak our faith in a changing world. Each and every day we grow together in the Word and in community.

No matter our age, our background, our biblical expertise, we grow together in our common faith.

The Rev. Rachel Pedersen

The Weekday School Christmas Pageant was held in our Sanctuary.

A family enjoyed intergenerational fellowship.

Our third graders received their Bibles on September 24.

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On Sunday mornings, Jon Pahl taught two series and other guest speakers included Hal Taussig, Klaus Volpert, and our Theologian in Residence, John Dominic Crossan. We partnered with Merion Friends Meeting for a lunch time series about prison realities, the early morning Couples’ Bible Study doubled in size, and we began a new class for busy women, “Filling the Well.” The Sunday morning hour between 8:45-9:45 a.m., which includes Rev. Paul MacMurray’s ongoing class, became the most popular time for adult education, but Wednesday evenings also provided enrichment, including “Financial Peace” and “Bible Basics.” We enjoyed hearing from Concertmaster David Kim, the Rev. Pattie Kitchen, the Rev. Dr. Paul Watermulder and Judy Wicks in programs sponsored by Senior Adults Council, and our Middleton Center provided opportunities to explore, question and grow through counseling services, support groups, labyrinth walks, spiritual direction, and special programs such as one designed for clergy of all faiths and another for the “Sandwich Generation.”

The Rev. Nicole Duran

The Rev. Paul MacMurray taught on most Sunday mornings.

Theologian-in-Residence John Dominic Crossan was our guest in June.

The Rev. Dick Wohlschlaegar (left) joined our staff in November.

If there’s one word that describes BMPC’s Youth Ministry, it is together. We seek to grow together in all that we do, whether at our weekly Youth Gathering and Grade Groups, our monthly special events, or our yearly mission trips and summer camp. Growing together may include serving with our Upward Basketball Ministry, learning about Jesus in Confirmation, or being a member of the high school leadership team. As we build relationships and deepen faith, we grow by “sharing Christ’s love together.”

The Rev. Kellen Smith

The Rev. Kellen Smith provided inspiration at Youth Gatherings.

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PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE Presbytery Allocation Mortgage Interest and Principal Other Administrative Expenses Total Administrative Expense OFFICE AND TECH EXPENSE PROPERTY EXPENSE Maintenance & Utilities Deferred Maintenance Total Property Expense BENEVOLENCE Worldwide Ministries Outreach Council Senior Adult Benevolence Total Benevolence COUNCILS Adult Education Children & Family Ministry Congregational Life Deacons - Congregational Care Fine Arts Program Membership Senior Adult Council Session Stewardship Worship Committee Youth Ministry Total CouncilsTotal EXPENDITURES NET CASH from Operating Budget Pension Termination Deferred Maintenance Sr. Pastor Discretionary NET CASH

2014 BUDGET 2014 ACTUAL 2013 ACTUAL

PLEDGES AND CONTRIBUTIONS Congregational Giving & Plate Cash Current Year Pledges Prior Year Pledges Total Pledges and Contributions SPECIAL INCOME Special Donations & Grants Charitable Trust Donation Foundation Income Allocation Total Special Income OTHER INCOME Total REVENUES

REVENUES

By the Numbers

*ThefinancialstatementshavebeenauditedbyBakerTillyLLC, and are available to any member of the church upon request.

EXPENDITURES

136,0002,180,500

25,0002,341,500

25,000250,0001,181,9141,456,914

4,0003,802,414

206,4922,209,147

22,6262,438,535

131,994250,000

1,185,5341,567,529

10,3264,016,390

157,138 2,149,551

69,655 2,376,343

66,387 250,000

1,122,880 1,439,266

4,031 $3,819,641

2,116,287

65,50057,00096,400

218,900205,000

545,750125,000670,750

100,000208,000

32,000340,000

7,00060,00014,000

3,500100,000

15,0004,0009,0005,0001,800

25,000244,300

3,795,2377,177

7,177

2,021,162

65,11456,91096,249

218,273204,510

571,055125,000696,055

97,000213,98028,936

339,916

7,98141,72210,367

1,33696,69015,5042,9339,1501,9843,335

24,588215,591

3,695,507320,883-414,784

-93,901

1,923,407

62,943 56,910 91,144

210,997184,440

518,218 125,000 643,218

100,291 184,895

27,533 312,718

9,155 42,170 13,033 6,097

75,237 13,210 3,077 6,139 2,185 1,728

24,061 196,092

$3,470,872$348,769

70,00024,000

254,769

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Total Cash and Equivalents Total Fixed Assets Other Assets Investments Notes Receivable Pooled Income Fund/Market Value Total Other Assets TOTAL ASSETS

ASSETS

LIABILITIES & EQUITY

DEC. 31, 2014 DEC. 31, 2013

903,88429,210,803

623,47567,754

107,614798,843

30,913,530

1,144,85527,730,897

455,14472,600

231,538759,282

29,635,034

Current Liabilities Accrued Expenses Custodial Accounts Forward in Faith Reserve Note to Foundation Temporarily Restricted Unrestricted Reserves Weekday School Reserves Total Current Liabilities Long Term Liabilities Line of Credit - BMT Amortization Pooled Income/Future Liability Total Long-Term Liabilities Total Liabilities Equity Plant Unrestricted Net Assets/Undesignated Net Income Total EquityTOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY

13,88025,570

-1,603,291388,119909,212454,595104,861292,947

1,665,0002,914

19,3251,687,2391,980,186

27,778,7031,217,623

-62,98128,933,345

30,913,530

15,24821,774

-709,257419,039977,198338,171157,187

1,219,360

790,0003,278

105,976899,254

2,118,615

26,298,797933,863283,759

27,516,42029,635,034

Stewardship Report - Looking AheadBy the end of 2014, our 2015 Stewardship Campaign “From Gratitude to Generosity” results were as follows:

• 738 pledges totaling $2,321,059 to support the operating budget of BMPC • An increase of 6.5% or $142,301 over the 2014 Stewardship Campaign• A pledging goal that was not only met but exceeded by $59,059 or 2.6%

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BMPC Foundation Balance Sheet Balance Sheet (December 31, 2014)

Income and Principal Cash Fixed Income Securities

Intermediate Term Notes - Market Rate Notes - Below Market Rate

Total Fixed Income Equities

U.S. All Cap U.S. Equity International Equity Fund

Total Equities Pledged for Line of Credit

Cash Equivalents (Money Market) Treasury Inflation Protected GNMA Fund Admiral Shares Intermediate Term

Total Pledged

TOTAL ASSETS

Undesignated: Unrestricted Endowment Permanent Endowment

Memorials: Catherine C. Miller Debbie Craig Foerderer Memorial Isabel Sherrerd Memorial Miller Memorial

Mission :Christian Mission Outreach Elsie and Blair Daniels Eugene C. Bay Fund Richard Shaull Fund Skip Hollingshead Fund Catastrophic Relief Fund Ruth Anchors Estate Otto Haas Charitable TrustTutoring Fund

Building: Ada Howard Donaghy Building Endowment Building Preservation Shepherd & Sheep Statuary Repair & Maintenance

Fine Arts: Chapel Organ Fund Sherrerd/Fine Arts for Children Richard W. Ledwith McFarland Music Phoebe Haas Organ Fund Silver Anniversary Fund William Dick Music Fine Arts for Children and Youth Haas Charitable Trust for Senior Choir

Youth:

Lola M. Tryon Memorial Joseph and Ethel VanderVeer

Family Ministries: Middleton Church School Fund

Other: Middleton Pastoral Care & Counseling Theologian in Residence Peacemaking Camp Scholarship Fund Community Forums Care of the Congregation J. Mahlon Buck, Jr. & Elia D. Buck FundJudith Ehrman Fund

TOTAL FUND BALANCES

7,658,0741,330,305

8,251160,407

8,637,40718,207

252,205

128,272297,345

2,269,9491,359,409

31,24815,226

385,009226,827118,471

1,842,600320,688756,403

4,927

41,33734,170

123,809404,416

79,180102,749834,801282,698

1,829,364

29,00836,141

71,873

2,300,59267,09012,60632,684

241,477199,864

4,068,934289,448

36,903,552

FUND BALANCES

208,253

5,325,935388,119655,122

6,369,175

16,370,3171,987,6247,722,887

26,080,828

3,4741,890,1021,198,6731,153,0464,245,295

36,903,552

ASSETS (MARKET VALUE)

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Special Gifts to Ministries of the Church: • Gifts in Honor of Jacqui VanVliet’s ministry, for Children & Family

Ministries• Gifts in Honor of Don Smith, for Adult Education• Gifts in Honor of Jeffrey Brillhart, for Worldwide Ministries• Gifts in Honor of Dolores Kephart, for the restoration of the stained glass• Gifts in Honor of Agnes Norfleet, for the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund• Gifts in Honor of Christina Haas & Jesse Ordonio’s marriage, for Outreach• Gifts in Memory of Terry Carrigan, to the Hunger Fund• Gifts in Memory of Joyce Kempf Hackman, to the Hunger Fund• Gifts in Memory of Robert Hauptfuhrer, to the Forward in Faith Capital

Campaign• Gifts in Memory of Linda Waltman, to the Nurse & Care Manager Fund• Gifts in Memory of James Weese, to the Middleton Center• PA Lumberman’s Mutual Matching Gift, to the Operating Budget• George & Grace Andressohn Fund, to the Operating Budget• The Philadelphia Foundation, to the Operating Budget• Katharine Hoyler Charitable Trust, to the Operating Budget• The Moyer Annuity of the Presbyterian Foundation, to the Operating Budget• Otto Haas Charitable Trust, to the Forward in Faith Capital Campaign• Martha Greene Lewis Charitable trust, to the Forward in Faith Capital

Campaign

Special Gifts to the BMPC Foundation:• Estate of Joan Bolton• Estate of Margaret Stevenson• Gifts in Memory of William Buchanan• Gifts in Memory of Barbara Eckman• Gifts in Memory of Charlotte Harris• Gifts in Memory of Marietta Homeier• Gifts in Memory of Richard Knecht• Gifts in Memory of J. Thomas Ligget• Gifts in Memory of Frances Middleton• Gifts in Memory of Shirley Moyer• Gifts in Memory of Elvin J. Stoltzfus• Gifts in Memory of Sara Vogel• Gifts in Memory of Mr. & Mrs. James R. Affleck and Mr. & Mrs. Walter B.

Bastow• Gifts in Honor of Herbert Evert’s 80th birthday, to the Building

Preservation Fund

Special GiftsIn 2014, our church was blessed by numerous generous donations, and we are grateful for each gift received. Most of these applied to our annual Stewardship Campaign and some went outside of those parameters – allocated to more specific uses. These “Special Gifts” are highlighted below.

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