THE CHALLENGE
With 1,100 baptized members, Peace Lutheran Church experienced heavy use of its facilities in Columbus, Nebraska. After church leadership held several listening sessions with the congregation, the top improvements were identified. However, funding an extraordinary capital project would require outside support to motivate the community and reach all available avenues for this effort.
THE VISION
Through feedback offered by the congregation and currently enrolled pre-school families, Peace Lutheran Church leadership planned to address multiple items, including:
- Renovating the sanctuary restrooms.
- Opening the chapel into the narthex space to improve capacity for social functions.
- Updating access points in the education wing to improve safety and traffic flow in the building.
- Improving the sprinkler system in the daycare for additional usability of the spaces.
THE SOLUTION
Peace Lutheran Church partnered with Fellowship Development, which provided a full-service team to create and implement the Renovating Lives: So All Might Believe Capital Campaign. A dedicated campaign manager worked onsite with leadership and a volunteer team organized around the common goal of improving many aspects of the aging facilities. Additionally, Fellowship Development gave the church access to award-winning graphic design services to create stunning materials to spread the message for support. The tailored capital campaign successfully raised more than the low-end fundraising projection for the community, fully funding the stated improvements and putting this community in a position to grow and thrive for years to come.
“I also particularly appreciated Fellowship Development's focus on spiritual aspects of the campaign, not just the financial. Stewardship is part of each person's discipleship journey, and this campaign helped each person grow as a follower of Christ.”
Rev. Cory Burma, Lead Pastor
Campaign Stats
The Fellowship Development’s unique, hands-on campaign management model, combined with our world-class grant writers and creative fundraising strategies, allowed us to exceed goal.
Goal
1100000
Raised
1273709
Percentage of Goal
116
A Customized Approach
Our firm is founded on the belief that the best capital campaign is one that is customized and executed by one team, under one roof. When you hire Fellowship Development, you eliminate the need to contract with additional vendors for services like copywriting, graphic design, grant writing, video production, website development or wealth screening. We reject the one-size-fits-all approach to fundraising and embrace every opportunity to design a capital campaign plan that will maximize our client’s fundraising potential.
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