Year End Gift

By now, you should have received your annual Year-End-Gift letter. As you know, every year we give everyone a chance to finish the year out strong with a financial gift. We encourage people to sacrificially give at a time when our culture is more about what we can get. Many people use this gift as a end of year large gift to help them catch up and fully support their church.

This gift normally goes to "extra and non-budgeted" items that are not covered in our regular budget. In the past, it has been for equipment replacement, global and local missions, student ministry resources, new building and the like.

However, this year is very different. As you know, many people have felt the financial crunch of a challenging economy. Every week I hear of another person who has lost their job or has lost wages in other ways. As one might expect....this years financial mess in our country has affected our general operating budget. As we head into 2009 we are looking at some cutbacks if our monthly general giving does not go up to the level we were this time last year.

Our Year-End-Gift this year is needed to end 2008 with no outstanding debt and more specifically to allow us a financial cushion for the first few months of 2009 as we have budget items from 2008 that we could not meet that need to be met for our vision to move forward.

Would you pray about what you can give to this needed year-end-gift? As usual you can give in many different ways (stock, gifts-n-kind, etc.) and everything given is credited for 2008 taxes. Please mark your gift YEG 2008.

Times are tough for most people......however, if we are all faithful to do what God ask us to do.....then together as Team Church....we can accomplish everything God has asked us to do a church.

Christmas Fellowship Service tonight! 7pm

Today's Bible Reading Hebrews chapter 1-4