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The Season
of Lent 2008
Dear People of the Pacifica Synod,
I hope the grace of God is overpowering
for you each day during this season of Lent.
In this packet is the promised
promotional B2B2B materials regarding the new home base for the Pacifica Synod,
a place that will be known as the Lutheran Center for Mission & Learning. The
first brochure tells a bit of that story. These same documents may be downloaded
from the www.pacificasynod.org website and can be reprinted in 8 ½ x 11" or 11
x 17." The second brochure tells the story of our Companion Synod in Ethiopia,
the story of their new building project and how Pacifica is connecting the two
building projects together. We have raised significant dollars to get us well
on the way with our new Center, but now we are at the fund-raising phase that
seeks a one-time donation from every member of the Pacifica Synod. We know that
if every Pacifica congregation challenged its membership to give $20 per member
for this one-time effort, we would have our new building debt free; we would build
the new building in Ethiopia, and we would scholarship the training of hundreds
of lay evangelists in our companion synod for the next several years. After raising
most of the funds for the new Synod Center from generous individual contributors,
to complete this project and undertake the mission opportunity in Ethiopia, we
now want to give every member an opportunity to offer a gift of any size, with
the hopes that more than 50,000 baptized members within the Pacifica Synod will
contribute a total of at least $1,000,000. You can read much more about this in
the brochures in this package.
We are asking you, as the leaders of the congregation and as B2B2B teams, to take
the following or similar steps:
 take a few minutes to read
this material, pause for reflection, and pray about this request
make you own financial commitment to B2B2B and be ready to share it with your
congregation present
this opportunity to your Church Council for their support and approval
ask each Council member to make a B2B2B commitment for themselves and their families
appoint a B2B2B team of five
or more people to carry this effort into your congregation
set a minimum monetary goal
for your congregation to raise for B2B2B
make a B2B2B thermometer showing the congregation how the fundraising is happening
print some promotional materials
each week from the synod website and tell the stories
share with your congregation how the pastoral staff and Church Council have made
commitments
watch for more materials on the website, on email, and from your fax machine
record the name of every donor so the synod may recognize each gift that is given
think
of some creative and enjoyable ways to help raise the funds (dinner, concert,
carwash)
include the children and the youth
know that the name of every donor will become part of a permanent donor's display
at the Center
invite someone to come to
your congregation as a guest speaker to help tell the B2B2B stories
please send or fax the B2B2B
information page to the Pacifica Synod
feel free to call or e-mail
for more information Thank
you for your partnership. May the light of Christ shine brightly over you these
days! Bishop Murray D. Finck and the Planning Team of the Lutheran Center for
Mission & Learning
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