Newsbrief: PIP Pledge Dedication

We’ve been building toward this Sunday for quite a while.

We’ve sung the song. We’ve chanted the refrain. We’ve heard the stories. We’ve read over the letters. We’ve seen Bob the Builder all over our church campus. We’ve had our congregational meeting. We’ve prayed about it.

This Sunday we will dedicate our Property Improvement Project Pledges.

Hopefully you received your PIP Pledge Card in the mail a few weeks back. Hopefully you have been praying for God’s guidance and God’s generous hand to lead us through this project.

We are seeking capital donations and pledges of $120,000. It is no small amount of money, but then again it is no small plan. We’ll be doing much needed updates and repairs to our church campus to help us continue to live into the mission and ministry that God has in store for us at FCC Scottsdale.

I’m extremely excited about our Property Improvement Project, and I am so grateful to our Property Improvement Team who has been guiding us through the whole process. In fact, I am so excited about it all that we are not going to waste any time on Sunday morning! The very first thing we’ll do in worship together this Sunday (right after the announcements) is receive and dedicate our PIP Pledges. Members of the Property Improvement Team will use fresh paint trays as the collection plates to receive your pledge cards and then we’ll offer a special word of prayer over those pledges, over the construction work that will begin shortly, and over the entirety of First Christian Church that we might be a place of blessing reaching out into the world.

So don’t forget to fill out your PIP Pledge Card. And if you forget to bring it with you on Sunday (like I always do!), don’t worry because we’ll have extras here waiting for you (I’ve already filled out a spare one!).

Our scripture reading this Sunday reminds us that Christ demanded, “My house shall be a house of prayer for all people.” Come join us at our House of the Lord this Sunday and help us celebrate all that God is doing with us and through us!

Yours in the Journey, Rev. Brian