Cathedral 2025 Faith Filled Financial Commitment
Every year at this time we invite our congregation to make a faith-filled financial commitment for the coming year to support the mission and ministry of the Cathedral.
Ingathering Sunday has been moved to Sunday, December 29. We want to give people ample time post-Hurricanes to assess their situations before making their pledge. If you haven't already pledged online or mailed in your commitment card, you're invited to do so as soon as possible if you are able!
It’s time to invest in our future.
The work that has started to restore the bell tower and re-roof the worship space is an investment. Generations gone by built and cared for this church and now it is our turn to maintain our buildings for the next generation. We look forward to Easter 2025 when the bells will ring out over the city for the first time in many years.
Our bishop has called on us to take on a greater leadership role in the diocese. The future dean of the Cathedral is not just the spiritual leader of our congregation, the dean is also a leader for the wider community and for the entire diocese, just as we are the Cathedral for the entire diocese. It is time for us to invest in that broader role as model, focal point, and gathering place for the city and the diocese.
Last year, many of you participated in our Holy Cow! survey. You told us that your top priorities were pastoral care and healing; growth; and caring for the vulnerable and marginalized. You told us how much you value our excellent music offerings. You emphasized the importance of robust offerings for families, children, and youth. And you told us that friendship, fellowship, small groups, and opportunities to participate in ministry are important to you.
Let’s invest in them.
Every year at this time we invite you to make a faith filled financial investment to the life and work of St. Peter’s Cathedral. Our goal is $950,000 — the same as last year, when we achieved only $790,408 of that goal. What better way to start off 2025 and to show that we are serious about our work as faithful Christians than to achieve (or exceed!) our goal?
We look forward to deepening our faith, enhancing our ministries, maintaining our Cathedral, and growing in faith-filled generosity together as we continue to give thanks for this Cathedral parish and for generations to come.
Complete Your 2025 Faith Filled Financial Commitment
We invite you to also make another kind of commitment to the Cathedral this year. The Holy Cow! survey showed that two-thirds of us are age 65 or older. As a community we need to make a concerted effort at succession planning so that those who have served long and well can pass the baton to the next generation of Cathedral leaders. Won’t you step up and volunteer, get involved, share your gifts and talents, and make an investment of time?
We offer you another opportunity to invest in the future of the Cathedral. If you have not yet made your will — something everyone should do! — we invite you to remember the Cathedral in your estate planning. We benefit from an endowment of over $4-million because generous givers in the past have made bequests to the Cathedral. You can make a future investment — it costs you nothing now! — by remembering the Cathedral in your will.
Our Stewardship Committee will hold an information session on November 17 following coffee hour to explain how you can do this and how you can communicate your wishes and desires to your heirs.
It’s time to invest our work, our wisdom, and our wealth in the Cathedral.
Can we count on you to make an investment in our future?
Yours in Christ,
Lucas Fleming Ray McColgan
Senior Warden Stewardship Chair