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Mission 4/1 Earth: 50 Great Days...Are YOU In? With just a little over a month until the start of Mission 4/1 Earth, we need to know if you and your church will join us in a shared resurrection to witness for Planet Earth during 50 great days of greening up, powering down, and shouting out for the environment! Mission 4/1 Earth has three goals over the course of 50 days: Goal #1: Participate in 1 million hours of engaged earth care Goal #2: Help us plant more than 100,000 trees Goal #3: Write 100,000 advocacy letters on environmental concerns to elected officials How can you let us know if you plan on joining us? Simple, just CLICK THE IMAGE below and fill out a short online pledge form. If you have any questions about Mission 4/1 Earth, check out the website:  ucc.org/earth

 

 

 

 

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Celebrate and Honor 217 Years
of Faithful Ministry

"Help Burn the Mortgage
of Your Vermont Conference Office"

As you may remember, about seven years ago the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ sold its office in Burlington and built a new office in Randolph. It's a building that was carefully designed to meet the needs of our ministry, and it serves us well. The current assessed value of our facility is $490,000. We assumed a 15-year mortgage that has a balance of about $160,000 and eight years of payments remaining. We currently make monthly mortgage payments that total about $25,000 a year.

We celebrated our 217th Annual Meeting this year, representing 217 years of the faithful ministry of our Vermont churches. To celebrate and honor that anniversary, the Finance Committee and Board of Directors proposed, and the delegates enthusiastically endorsed, a campaign to "burn the mortgage" of the Vermont Conference Office at 36 N. Main Street in Randolph. We are asking for gifts of $217 each from individuals, churches, or associations within the Vermont Conference. We hope to receive 1,000 of these designated gifts so that we raise $217,000 total.

If and when there are gifts committed beyond the amount necessary to pay off the
mortgage, use of the balance will be decided by the Board of Directors to meet the goals of the Conference. Possible uses include funding long-term maintenance of the building, depositing additional resources in the Unrestricted Fund, or funding church revitalization or new church starts. This becomes a win/win situation ... we are able to pay off our mortgage, freeing up $25,000 a year to support the mission and ministry of the Conference, AND we are able to infuse our Conference with an additional $57,000.

If you would like to help celebrate 217 years of faithful ministry by the Vermont Conference, please see this letter which includes more information and a pledge form. Your entire gift need not be paid all at once, but we're hoping to finish the campaign by next year's Annual Meeting.

The quickest way to participate is to click on this button:

 

which will take you to our on-line donor page where you can now designate your contribution to the Celebrate 217 fund. You can even set it up on-line to make 10 payments of $21.70 per month to meet your pledge.

Thank you in advance for celebrating the 217 years of ministry of the Vermont Conference!