FREEDOM
FOR THE FUTURE
IS HERE!
Dear Nativity Family,
Thirty months ago, we envisioned a debt-free future. We launched the Freedom for the Future Campaign to eliminate the mortgage on our campus, as well as make improvements and dream for the future. The mortgage was money we needed to double our acreage, create an additional (and safer!) entrance on Buck Shoals, set up a modular classroom building, and acquire a parsonage. We've been using all of these assets in our ministry ever since, but we've also been paying for them monthly until the debt would be eliminated. We've been looking forward to the future, when more of our resources would be freed for ministry to Make Christ Known.
We have wonderful news to share:
Freedom is here!
Acting on a vote from the Congregation Council, on Wednesday our bookkeeper Gene Hoemann made our final mortgage payment, eliminating our debt! Hallelujah!
Thank you to everyone who has given so generously to free us from our debt! Your giving allowed us to pay this debt off months early, saving interest payments and freeing capital from mortgage payments for ministry opportunities.
We'll enter into this newfound freedom by burning the mortgage in celebration of its completion. We'll have this ceremony on Sunday October 29, after the 11 o'clock service, as we begin the Reformation 500 event.
We invite you to come share in this celebration!
(Reminder: tomorrow is the deadline for lunch RSVP's.)
Now we are freed for the future! We have cash on hand in the Freedom Fund for making improvements to our campus, including finishing roof repairs and paving the parking lot (both part of our original Freedom for the Future goals). All remaining Freedom for the Future pledge fulfillment or gifts will go directly to this fund, for improvements and future ministry.
Freedom is here! Thank you for your ongoing support of our ministries and mission at Nativity, as we continue to Make Christ Known!
+ Congregation Council and your Pastors
