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First Quarter Financial Report:

Budgeted Income:                             $113,000

Actual Income:                                  $112,481

Average Income per week:             $8233.00

Average Weekly Attendance:         204

Thank you for your generous support of the ministry of AGCC this year. As you can see from the numbers above we are slightly behind our budgeted income. I want to encourage everyone to regularly ask God to bless this church with the funds we need to continue to live out His mission in ...

On behalf of the Leadership Council, I want to ask you to join us in prayer for our Christmas Offering. The Christmas Offering is a one time offering that goes to fully fund God’s work at Aspen Grove. It is an offering that is over and above our regular gifts to the church. We will be taking up this offering on December 16 in ...

Before I get into the 3^rd objective I want to thank you all for engaging with God about this offering. I have heard a few stories of how God has provided unexpected income to meet the desire He placed in people’s hearts. As I have shared with you before, I talk about generosity not to get funds for this ministry, God will fund the ministry as He sees fit, rather I care about it because I know if you seriously ...

2^nd Objective: By increasing our financial support of Claire Froehlich of Youth for Christ Juvenile Justice Ministry, we can help her be full time in her work of ministering to incarcerated juveniles.

On Dec 16^th we are going to take up a special one-time offering that will go to help fully fund God’s work at Aspen Grove. This is a separate offering from our regular giving. I want to tell you more about our second objective for this offering, to increase ...

This Christmas, we are going to be taking up a special, one time offering on December 16^th that will go to help fully fund God’s work at Aspen Grove.  This is a separate offering from our regular giving.  This year we planned for a deficit as we continue to grow into our new space, and we have been thankful to see giving go way up.  We are currently $40,000 shy of being fully funded this year, so we want to ...

On Monday this week, I was reading through 2 Corinthians 9:10-15.  As I read it, I was moved toward generosity.  I want to share with you three reasons you should give on Dec 16th to The Christmas Offering.

1. When God leads you to give, follow Him. This is the most important reason to act. When you trust                                God in acts of generosity, He will transform your heart.
2. Giving is a tangible ...

Being content with God’s daily provisions.

Phil 4:11-12 “I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”

Paul wrote these words to a church in the context of thanking them for sending him money to support his ministry.  If ...

As a professional fundraiser for Kingdom causes, I make it a priority to immerse myself in great teaching related to stewardship and generosity. The following 10 principles (from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) offer some great thoughts related to the subject. I hope reading and reflecting on them blesses your soul.

Biblical Principles for Stewardship and Fundraising

1.     God, the creator and sustainer of all things and the One “who works within us to accomplish far more than we can ask ...

Did you miss the financial update in church this Sunday (July 29, 2012)?

Download the audio version here:

Financial Update.mp3