Grace Church Bainbridge Island

Finance & Stewardship

 

Grace is blessed with a generous congregation. Pledged contributions of $550,000 will help support the 2014 budget of approximately $685,000. To supplement pledge income, we rely on proven success with fundraising events including a gala dinner auction and rummage sale.

 

We typically have 65 to 70 percent participation in our annual pledge drive. This year, for the first time, we asked members to consider pledging for two years. The average pledge is just over $2,000.

 

As participants in the Diocesan Clergy Residency Program, we receive partial salary support for our Associate Priest.

 

We have conducted two capital campaigns. The first raised funds to buy our property and to construct our building. The second, in 2007, gave us the financial resources to pay off the debt we had incurred as well as to set aside funds toward the building of a chapel, part of our master plan.

 

Grace has recently started a small endowment fund, which we will work to grow in the years to come.

 

Read our current Annual Report