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MEETING AGENDA

• INTRODUCTION

• KITTERY POINT PLAN (DEB AND ALI)

• NEXT STEPS (DENNIS)

• VISION CASTING (PASTOR BRUCE)

• ADJOURNMENT

CAMPAIGN GOALS

• 1ST PRIORITY: RENOVATE AND OPEN KITTERY POINT CAMPUS BY SEPTEMBER, 2017. – ESTIMATED COST OF $750,000 WHICH INCLUDES

$150,000 OF CONTINGENCY FUNDS

– TO COMPLETE THE RENOVATIONS ON TIME AND UNDER BUDGET.

• 2ND PRIORITY: PAY OFF BETHANY’S MORTGAGE OF @

1.2 MILLION NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER, 2018 THUS FREEING UP APPROXIMATELY $135,000 ANNUALLY, MOST OF WHICH WILL BE USED TO FUND KITTERY POINT OPERATIONS.

Kittery Point Campus

Renovation Plan Update

Renovation Criteria Description of Criteria

Health & Safety Ensure that the building is compliant from a Health and Safety perspective.

Projects such as; fire systems, security and alarms, ADA Compliance, handicap

accessibility, elevator, moisture management, structural engineering, etc., are

included in this category.

Create Fellowship

Spaces

Create spaces that promote and encourage “Essential Engagements” - working

together to become disciples who make disciples. Examples of such spaces are

Fellowship Hall, Classrooms, and Meeting Rooms.

Create a Multi-use

Room Configuration

The building floor-plan will be configured in such a manner as to maximize the

space available for both small gatherings and large gatherings. A flexible floor

plan will afford the opportunity to meet a wide variety of congregation and

community needs.

Sound, Reliable and

Efficient Building

Systems

Building systems will be cost effective and efficient. The current building

systems are functional as is. However, further detailed inspections have

revealed that they are inefficient as compared to today’s available technology

and will likely require maintenance, repair and replacement within the next 5 +/-

years.

Technology That

Supports Worship Style

Sermons will be pre-recorded in Greenland. The AVLA configuration must be

such that congregants enjoy the same level of worship service in each of our

Campuses - including Kittery Point.

Financial - Good

Stewards of Financial

Assets

The cost of renovation must meet certain financial criteria in order to ensure that

we are being good stewards of the financial assets that we have been blessed

with.

Renovation Objectives

Proposed Building Upgrades • Upgrade Building Systems for greater

efficiencies:

– Plumbing

– HVAC

– Electrical

• Insulate Building - walls, ceilings and floors

• Replace Siding

• Replace windows

• Add an elevator for improved accessibility

• Add exterior decking for improved accessibility

Fellowship Hall & Exterior

Health & Safety: • Add bathrooms that are

handicapped accessible. • Relocate front entry to create

better access and additional parking.

• Add an elevator to improve accessibility.

Create Fellowship Spaces: • Create a combined Cafe, Resource

Center and Guest Central Area. Multi-Use Room Configuration: • Create a welcoming space that can

be used for small group meetings and community gatherings.

Efficient Building Systems: • Replace windows to improve

building heating and cooling efficiency.

Technology: • Install an AVLA system in order

to deliver the same worship service quality as enjoyed at other Bethany campuses.

Multi-Use Room Configuration: • Create a welcoming space that

can be used to celebrate life events such as; weddings, baptisms, dedications, etc.

• Reconfigure the platform to accommodate the Bethany style of worship music.

Efficient Building Systems: • Replace windows to improve

building heating and cooling efficiency.

Sanctuary

Annex - Third Floor

Multi-Use Room Configuration: • Create classrooms and open

spaces that can be easily configured to accommodate a variety of small group meetings and student classes.

• Create a worship arts room that our musicians can use to store instruments and to prepare for worship services.

Health & Safety: • Add an elevator to improve

accessibility. Technology: • Add classroom technology

designed to enhance the classroom experience.

Elementary 1 -4

Preschool & Kindergarten

Elementary Small Group

Stage

Annex - Second Floor

Technology: • Add classroom technology

designed to enhance the classroom experience.

Multi-Use Room Configuration: • Create classrooms and open

spaces that can be easily configured to accommodate a variety of small group meetings and student classes.

Health & Safety: • Add an elevator to improve

accessibility.

Bathroom

Annex - First Floor

Technology: • Add classroom technology

designed to enhance the classroom experience.

Health & Safety: • Remediate the moisture issue in

the first floor of the annex. • Create a second Utility Closet to

accommodate upgraded plumbing.

• Expand and update bathroom. • Add an elevator to improve

accessibility. Create Fellowship Spaces: • Update the 68 Hours of Hunger

space.

A GUIDE TO GIVING

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

WHY GIVE?

HOW MUCH TO GIVE?

HOW TO DONATE?

HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?

• ANY AND ALL OF THESE OPTIONS:

– PRAYER

– DONATION OF TIME

– DONATION OF TALENT/SKILL

– DONATION OF GOODS/MATERIALS

– DONATION OF MONEY

WHY GIVE?

• THE BIBLICAL IMPERATIVE:

MATTHEW 28:19

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

WHY GIVE?

• THE BIBLICAL IMPERATIVE:

– 2 CORINTHIANS 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

WHY GIVE?

• THE PRACTICAL IMPERATIVES:

– EARLY GIVING ACCELERATES KITTERY RENOVATIONS

– GENEROUS GIVING PROVIDES EARLY MORTGAGE RELIEF AND RELEASE OF FUNDS TO KITTERY POINT OPERATIONS

WHY GIVE?

• THE PERSONAL IMPERATIVES:

– GET YOUR JERSEY DIRTY!

GET IN THE ARENA

“It is not the critic who counts; not the

man who points out how the strong

man stumbles, or where the doer of

deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is

actually in the arena, whose face is

marred by dust and sweat and blood;

who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

WHY GIVE?

• WE CAN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!

HOW MUCH TO GIVE?

• FACTS:

– ONE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS ARE IN ADDITION TO CURRENT GIVING TO THE ANNUAL FUND.

– CURRENTLY, 940 GIVING UNITS; WE WOULD LIKE TO DOUBLE THAT!

– ANNUAL TITHES AND OFFERINGS= $2.2 MILLION

– THUS, EACH GIVING UNIT DONATES $2400/YEAR ON AVERAGE

HOW MUCH TO GIVE?

• FACTS: – LAST CAMPAIGN (RAYMOND) NETTED $2.7 MILLION

DURING WORST RECESSION IN MODERN HISTORY.

– THE ONE CAMPAIGN GOAL IS 30% SMALLER

– OUR GOAL IS TO: • TO HAVE ALL MEMBERS AND REGULAR ATTENDEES

PARTICIPATE IN THE GIVING PROCESS.

• HAVE CURRENT GIVING UNITS INCREASE THEIR GENEROSITY BY AT LEAST 43% FOR TWO YEARS.

• THIS INCREASE WOULD AVERAGE $1030/YEAR OR $86/MONTH OR $20/WEEK.

HOW MUCH TO GIVE?

• THE IMPACT OF A 43% INCREASE:

– $2400*43%= $1032 ANNUAL INCREASE

– $1032 ANNUAL INCREASE*940 GIVING UNITS= $970,080

– $970,080 INCREASE*2 YEARS= $1,940,160 (OUR GOAL!)

HOW MUCH TO GIVE?

• IF YOU NOT CURRENTLY GIVING, CONSIDER USING THE BIBLICAL TITHE (10%) AS A GUIDE:

– EXAMPLE:

• INCOME = $50,000

• INCOME X .1 =$5000 FOR GENERAL FUND

• INCOME X .043= $2150 FOR TWO YEARS FOR ONE CAMPAIGN

• TOTAL GIFT FOR NEXT TWO YEARS=$7150, THEN BACK TO $5000

HOW MUCH TO GIVE?

• IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY GIVING:

– EXAMPLE:

• CURRENT ANNUAL DONATION TO GENERAL FUND=$2000

• DONATION X .43= $860 PER YEAR FOR TWO YEARS FOR ONE CAMPAIGN

• TOTAL GIFT FOR NEXT TWO YEARS=$2860, THEN BACK TO $2000

HOW TO GIVE

• OUR GOALS ARE:

– TO ENSURE THAT YOUR GENEROUS GIFT IS CREDITED TO THE CORRECT ACCOUNT (WE DO NOT WANT TO CONFUSE YOUR ONE CAMPAIGN GIFT WITH YOUR NORMAL GIVING)!

– WE WANT TO BE SURE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH ACCURATE RECEIPTS AND REPORTS FOR YOUR TAX PURPOSES.

HOW TO GIVE

• GIVING GUIDE AVAILABLE TO TAKE AWAY, AND IS ON LINE AT BETHANY.COM

• WAYS TO GIVE: – AUTOMATIC WITHDRAWAL (PREFERRED METHOD)

– PERSONAL CHECK

– CASH USING DESIGNATED ENVELOPES

– ON LINE

– APPRECIATED ASSETS

– GIFTS IN KIND

– ESTATE PLANNING OPTION

PLEDGE CARD INSTRUCTIONS

NEXT STEPS

• COMPLETE PLEDGE CARD NOW IF YOU ARE READY TO DONATE

• IF NOT, PRAYERFULLY COMPLETE THE PLEDGE CARD AT HOME AND RETURN TO CHURCH ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 4TH. ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME.

• PRAY FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE CAMPAIGN AND FOR THE GENEROSITY OF THE CONGREGATIONS.

• AWAIT, WITH GREAT EXPECTATION, TO CELEBRATE TOGETHER THE SUCCESSFUL OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH AND THE BURNING OF OUR MORTGAGE!

AVAILABLE TAKEAWAYS

• ONE CAMPAIGN PLEDGE CARD

• ONE CAMPAIGN CASH ENVELOPES

• GIVING GUIDE

• GIVING SUGGESTIONS BASED ON INCOME AND CURRENT GIVING

• FAQs (if needed)