Dear Brothers and Sisters of our St Lucas family,
As many of you may know, our church basement flooded 7 years ago. While the flooding issue has long been resolved, we have lost an important gathering space.
A generous donation has been made to renovate the lower level to make it a beautiful and useful space for God’s children – young and old. In the past the basement held church overflow, pre and post church gatherings, meetings, family gathering areas for funerals, wedding banquets and monthly shut in lunches.
While this generous donation will make the area a wonderful, functional space, we are faced with the challenge of transporting those unable to climb stairs to the new fellowship area.
An elevator has been proposed at a cost estimated at about 250,000 dollars. We are thrilled to share that several donors will match commitments dollar-for-dollar up to 140,000 dollars. This means that your contribution of $25 is matched to be 50 dollars. A $100 donation becomes 200 dollars, $1,000 becomes 2,000 dollars, and so on.
Please pray about this opportunity today and, should you be moved to do so, consider a gift in keeping with your ability. With this dollar-for-dollar match, it’s a unique opportunity to make your gift go further.
Should you be moved to take part, please complete the attached commitment card and place in next week’s offering plate. It’s requested that the commitments cards be returned, if possible, by April 1. The actual reception of your gift will not be needed until July 15. With your generous gift matched with the gifts of others, we can make this wonderful new fellowship space available to everyone in Christ’s flock.
Thank you for your prayerful consideration.
Elevating Christ’s Flock Fund
Name_____________________________________
I commit to donate __________________________ for the St Lucas elevator fund by July 15th, 2012. All funds and matching funds will be used for the installation of a new elevator.
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