THE MASSACHUSETTS CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

SUSTAINING PASTORAL EXCELLENCE ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN

Newsletter

August 2011

 

 

 

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After more than a year of lining up early donors, recruiting ambassadors and producing informational materials, the Massachusetts Conference has officially kicked off the Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Endowment Campaign.

 

The $3.5 million dollar campaign is aimed at creating an endowment fund to provide a permanent source of income for the Pastoral Excellence Programs that for the past nine years have been funded through the Lilly Endowment.
 

During its quiet phase, 100 percent of the Conference Board of Directors, Executive and Program staff and Pastoral Excellence Program group facilitators committed to the campaign, raising more than $610,000 in pledges and donations by the public kickoff at the 212th Annual Meeting in Sturbridge in June.

 

"The early positive response to this Campaign is tremendous!" said Andy Gustafson, Associate Conference Minister for Stewardship, adding that the campaign has already raised twice as much from individual donors as was raised from the entire The Gift and The Promise, the Conference's last capital campaign which took place in the late 1990s.
 

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Rev. Jan Gregory-Charpentier: 

PEP has allowed me to be a better pastor! 

Rev. Jan Gregory-Charpentier didn't need to be talked into joining one of the Massachusetts Conference, United Church of Christ's Clergy Community of Practice groups. "I was one of the early adopters of the initiative," Gregory-Charpentier said, "probably 6 or 7 years ago. I was involved for three years, the period of our initial covenant. Then I was asked to facilitate a new clergy community of practice, for another three years." The benefits of her involvement, says the Rev. Gregory-Charpentier, "have been many."

 

She went to the Duke School of Theology through the MACUCC's support and participated in a program called Foundations of Christian Leadership. She was also involved with at least two or three other church members in colloquies. And, Gregory-Charpentier notes, the MACUCC "was gracious enough to offer some financial support through the Pastoral Excellence Program for a retreat for clergywomen. These have been wonderful experiences of community, collegiality, learning, support."

 

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Jan Gregory Charpentier

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Wrap-Around Capital Campaign

 

Should Our Church Conduct a Wrap-Around Capital Campaign?

 

Did your boiler just quit? Did your rotting foundation cause the steeple to be removed? Do you need to add on the church? Does the church need a new roof or a big interior/exterior renovation?

 

Find out more: Wrap-Around Capital Campaign 

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Join Reverend Jan Gregory-Charpentier and the United Parish of Upton in making a pledge to this Campaign!

To make and online pledge or gift:  Donate

Or contact Andrea Bellarosa at [email protected] to obtain a pledge form.