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Congregational Meeting Recap
This past Sunday our Board of Trustees led our annual Congregational Meeting, after Service. You can view the annual Congregational Meeting at the YouTube link above. The meeting starts at 01:20:30. Included in the meeting were reports by the Board and the Minister, an update on our financial position, and our 2025-2026 Stewardship Campaign. Our congregation offered gratitude to our outgoing Board President Tonie Scullion for her outstanding work. Presented during the meeting were the Congregational Goals for 2025-2026. They…
A Final Report, From Stewardship
Dear WellSprings family, With grateful hearts, the Stewardship Ministry is wrapping up this year’s pledge campaign. Thank you to everyone who already made a pledge commitment for our next fiscal year (July 2025 – June 2026)! Each dollar you pledge lights the way for everything we do together – singing with the band, gathering in Bell Hall and online, caring for our children and teens, supporting our ministers and staff, and serving our wider community. Because 95% of our budget comes…
Don’t Miss Belonging Sunday, This Weekend!
This Sunday will be an exciting one as we observe two big events at WellSprings: the welcoming of new members and the final day of our 2025 Pledge Drive. It all happens during a special, annual service we call “Belonging Sunday” – a celebration of our WellSprings community, where we also recognize and welcome all the new members who have joined in the previous year. Belonging Sunday is an all-ages service, so the Big Blue Rug will be out on…
Together We Can: A Message From the Stewardship Ministry
Greetings WellSprings! The Stewardship Ministry is kicking off our annual pledge campaign for the fiscal year July 2025 through June 2026. We are inspired by our congregation’s generosity and sincerely thank everyone who supported WellSprings with a pledge commitment for the current fiscal year July 2024 to June 2025. Our pledge campaign theme this year is: Together We Can! The pledge drive begins now and concludes on April 27th. Our FY25-26 stewardship goal is: $250,000 in pledges to cover…
Announcing Our New “Future Fund”
At our Installation service in September, our former ministerial intern – the Rev. Beth Monhollen – announced the creation of a new fund at WellSprings. The Future Fund is an investment in WellSprings’ future, created on the occasion of our first ministerial Installation, and intended to honor our congregation’s founding era by planning for the era to come. Gifts given to the Future Fund will not be used for our normal operating budget, but for future-oriented projects that help sustain…
Farewell Jessica, Congregational Meeting Recap, & A Report from Stewardship…
This past Sunday we celebrated Jessica Heichel’s last day on Staff as our Membership & Communications Coordinator – and, our Board of Trustees led our annual Congregational Meeting, after the service! You can watch all of Sunday’s events at the link above – including a special New Member Welcome for Jessica and her husband Dan! The Heichels decided to become members of our congregation, following Jessica’s time on Staff. We also gave Jessica a parting gift to thank her for…
A Final Report, From Stewardship
Greetings WellSprings! The Stewardship Ministry is wrapping up our annual pledge campaign, and we would like to thank everyone who generously made a pledge commitment to WellSprings for the fiscal year July 2024 to June 2025. Our pledge campaign, Building Our Beloved Community, supported the following stewardship goals: 1. to increase member pledge participation from 70% to 90% 2. to increase the overall pledged amount by 16% to meet the planned budget of $250,000. To measure member pledge participation, we used a base…
Don’t Miss Our Big Belonging Sunday, this Weekend!
You won’t want to miss this Sunday, as WellSprings observes three big events in the life-cycle of our congregation: the welcoming of new members, the final day of our 2024 Pledge Drive, and the announcement of results in our congregation’s vote, to call Rev. Lee Paczulla as our first-ever settled minister. It all happens during a special, annual service we call “Belonging Sunday” – a celebration of our WellSprings community, where we also recognize and formally welcome all the new…
Building Our Beloved Community: A Letter from the Stewardship Ministry
Greetings WellSprings! The Stewardship Ministry has begun work on our annual pledge campaign for the July 2024 through June 2025 fiscal year. We are inspired by our congregation’s generosity and sincerely thank everyone who supported WellSprings with a pledge commitment for the fiscal year July 2023 to June 2024. Our pledge campaign theme this year is Building Our Beloved Community! At WellSprings, pledges are a commitment to give throughout the coming year. They allow us to plan for how WellSprings will…
A Welcome to Some New Leaders
Welcome New Leaders! We are grateful to have some new leaders joining our Senior Leader Community at WellSprings in 2024! In January the Board announced that Chris Rieder has been appointed as a Board Trustee to fill the seat recently vacated. Chris is also a member of the Tech Team. Sarah Costa also recently joined our Stewardship Ministry. Sarah has volunteered in YouthSpirit, and you may recall that she led an “Off the Fence” Soul Bite, this past fall. Jenn Nettingham and Samantha Weber have also been actively participating in our YouthBridge Ministry – as…
A Letter From Our Stewardship Ministry, at the End of Our Pledge Drive
Greetings WellSprings! The Stewardship Ministry is wrapping up our annual pledge drive, and we would like to provide an update on the results. We are inspired by our congregation’s generosity and sincerely thank everyone who made a pledge commitment to WellSprings for the fiscal year July 2023 to June 2024. Our stewardship goals were: We have now received $206,383 in pledge commitments, which is 78% of the way to the requested goal. We have given the total pledge amount to…
A New Member Welcome, and an Update from Our Stewardship Ministry
This past Sunday, we celebrated Belonging Sunday, where we welcome new members who have joined our congregation over the past year. We were happy to welcome five new families, as well as two individuals who joined us the prior year, in 2022. Each new member is given a gift bag with a few symbolic gifts: a little Energizer Bunny to represent our charged-full mission; and sunflower seeds, to represent how we hope our members will come to us on “rainy…
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