Fall Stewardship Program

Be the Light – Grow, Serve, Shine!

A Letter to Our Community

In deep gratitude, we thank you for sharing your abundance in support of the Center for Spiritual Living – Olympia. You give the meaning to our fall program, Be the Light: Grow, Serve, Shine!

Thanks to the giving hearts and spirit of our members, this year the Center was able to reach out into the community, to serve in the Interfaith Works Council, Crop Walk, Kinship Family, Thurston County Food Bank, and the SideWalk homeless intake center, to name just a few.

The Center relies on member talents and financial contributions to offer programs like accredited Science of Mind classes, Sacred Circles book study groups, Visioning Core, Practitioners for counseling or prayer, a growing children’s program (which doubled from an average of six children to up to 17 children per week), and special concerts like the Tibetan Singing Bowls and m-pact.

In the last year, membership grew 15 percent — from 56 to 62 pledged members. Sunday attendance has grown from 60 guests to more than 90 on average. In 2012, we want to grow 25 percent to at least 82 members.

As a member, you will have a voice in how the Center for Spiritual Living – Olympia grows and evolves. Members can vote at the annual membership meeting and other ballots. You will get a discount on certificated courses and receive a free, annual spiritual check-up from one of our Practitioners, and more.

We invite you to shine in full participation as a pledged member to expand the Center’s vision to serve its members and the community in 2012. We ask you to join with us in commitment to the Center by making a renewing member pledge or becoming a new member. By committing to a pledge gift, you will consciously invoke the law of circulation: as you give you will receive.

Your pledge gift will help reach our 2012 budget goal of $140,720:

• Staff committed to promoting programs and events for the Center and community (minister, accounting and audit services, youth coordinator, sound technician)
• Musicians and song leaders, including special guests
• Building and facilities (annual $22,000 rent)
• Printing and business expenses
• Sound system, audiovisual and media equipment

Our intention is to have at least 62 pledges on file by the end of the Community Conversation Café on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Please mail your completed 2012 pledge form or place in a sealed envelope in the offering basket or pledge box on Sunday.

Thank you.

In Gratitude, Light, and Abundance,

Sherry Nelson, Council Vice President, 2011 Fall Program Chair
Michael Stuart, Council Treasurer, Pledge Goals Leader

Download fall program pledge letter [PDF]

The Center for Spiritual Living – Olympia is a non-profit 501(c)(3) registered spiritual organization. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.