Thank you to all who have responded to the 2025 Stewardship appeal by returning a pledge card with your estimates of giving for the coming new year. Please watch for announcements of pledge totals throughout December. A final tally will be reported in the January Messenger.
In the meantime, it’s not too late for you to reach out to share God’s gifts in the world and to care for our neighbors by returning your pledge card if you haven’t already done so. Remember, what we give here helps not only our church and our South Jersey neighbors, but also goes out into the world, helping more and more people as it grows.
Returning a card is more than providing an estimate of giving for what you and your household hope to provide in offerings toward God’s work in the world through Our Savior’s ministry. It is also a symbol of being members of the body of Christ and participants together in the mission we share through baptism.
Pledge cards can be mailed to the church office or emailed to the LCOS Financial Secretary, Shannon Foskett, at sgfoskett@yahoo.com. Shannon will directly record your estimate of giving in our church database.
Closing Out 2024
The LCOS community has been diligent and generous in General Fund offerings this year. At the end of October offerings were slightly below expectations, and it is our hope that with generous support in these last weeks of the year Our Savior will be able to end the year in the black and also contribute toward the work of the larger church closer to what the Synod originally requested in 2024 Mission Support.
For the last two years this congregation has only been able to give 5% of our income to the NJ Synod’s Mission Support Fund, not our usual 10%. If in this season of giving you are able not only to maintain your giving, but go a little beyond your usual year-end offering, we will once again be able to carry our share of this responsibility, for as Bishop Tracie Bartholomew said in her sermon on Nov. 10, God’s love flows through us.
Thank you for your support so far this year and in these remaining weeks.
May God bless you richly in the holiday season and beyond.
