Dear Friends in Christ,

As Stewardship Season looms, the leadership groups at Zion and St Anne’s are working hard to prepare. Committees are meeting at both churches to consider next year’s budget.  We are asking for input from the groups at both churches that are responsible for discretionary spending: buildings and grounds, music, worship committee, altar guild and various benevolences: Family Promise, Trunk or Treat, Christmas Giving Trees, Food for the Hungry.

We will develop budgets that are realistic but are also asking us to dream a little and consider plans we might have for the future.

When you decide what you are going to pledge so that Zion and St Anne’s can function smoothly in 2026, please consider an additional contribution that will help secure our futures.  Currently both churches depend on bequests given by people who wanted to make sure our churches would survive the inevitable hard times that would occur as our churches served the generations yet to come.   Our bequests  given now will lengthen our futures beyond that which our benefactors have already provided for us.

Your pledge and whatever bequest you might make should be made separately with your intentions made clear as to which is which.

Thank you for being the church.

Faithfully yours,

Rebecca