Thank you all for the fantastic response to our Stewardship Appeal. All the forms have now been processed and the results are:This is a marvellous result and we should be thankful to God for his provision and to thethe church fellowship for their great generosity. Last autumn the DCC faced a difficult choice. We were determined that we shouldn't budget for a deficit and we were also keen to avoid the kind of cost-cutting that would restrict our investment in the Alpha Course and other mission opportunities. So we committed ourselves to a budget that included a significant increase in giving. And we prayed.
13 new people joined and 4 left resulting in a net gain of 9 members. Those people and the existing members pledged to give £51,704, an increase of £6,749 (15%) over last year. This is an amazing result. Congratulations and enormous thanks to you all. This amount of giving will enable us to claim £10,922 tax back from the HM Revenue & Customs.
We have received a congratulatory letter from the Archdeacon which is displayed on the notice board.
With this wonderful result of our stewardship campaign, a rise in the amount of income tax we can recover, and a better than predicted income from our lettings, we should cover our commitments and move forward in 2009.
We seem to be celebrating good news quite a lot just now. Praise God for all that is good.
