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~identityWe are an open community

of Christians gathering to seek,

celebrate, live and share the

love of God for all creation.

~vision We envision being transformed

by God and transforming the

world into a compassionate,

just, inclusive,

Christ-like community.

~method We experience God’s

unconditional love,embrace hope, grow in faith,

and become empowered by our

passion for ministry and

service in the world.

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Dr. Kent Millard, Lead Pastor

Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, They shall mount up with wings like eagles,

They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. ( :)

THE PAST DECADE: -

A DECADE of Worship

On Easter Sunday we had our first worship service in our new sanctuary—even though it was

not finished! Some of you will remember that on the Saturday before Easter we had to clean the

sanctuary from all the construction mess, haul in white folding chairs, bring in an electronic

organ (the new organ was not installed yet) put up colorful ban-

ners to hide the bare unfinished walls, and bring in a portable

pulpit and microphone to conduct our overflowing Easter services.

It was a memorable, exciting and moving service.

Then we had to move everything out again on Easter Sunday after-

noon so construction workers could finish the job. We moved in

to the new sanctuary permanently in June .

We talked about how these new worship facilities would provide

space for all the people who wanted to worship with us on Sunday

mornings, and we saw our worship attendance increase from ,

per Sunday before the new sanctuary was built to , at the end

of —an increase of % in attendance over the past decade at

the main campus.

Our satellite off-site ministry, The Garden, had a worship atten-

dance of in and has grown to in , an increase of % over the past decade.

Total worship attendance at St. Luke’s in all services increased % from , in to , in

, an increase of per Sunday.

In our official membership was ,. At the end of our membership was ,, an

increase of , or a % increase in the number of people who call St. Luke’s their church home.

The Prophet Isaiah tells us that those who trust in God will

find their strength renewed, will rise up with wings like

eagles, and will run the race before them without weariness

or fainting.

For this Annual Report, I would like for us to rise up

on the wings of eagles and look at the ministries of St. Luke’s

from a higher and wider perspective. Eagles are reported to

be the birds with the keenest sense of vision, able to see

details on the earth from high in the sky.

I would like to invite us to rise up like eagles and look at

the ministries for St. Luke’s from a larger perspective.

Rather than just looking at our ministries for the past year,

let’s look over and give thanks for what God has done

among and through us for the past decade.

Sanctuary, Easter 1999.

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A DECADEof Capital Expansion

During the decade of to , St. Luke’s had

to build additional facilities to accommodate the

worship and educational needs of our growing

congregation. During the past decade we have

added a new ,-seat sanctuary, a new educa-

tional and music building, remodeled parts of

Robertson Chapel to become a new prayer chapel

and spiritual life center, remodeled children’s

classrooms, built Luke’s Lodge, installed a

new heating and air conditioning system,

and greatly expanded parking.

During the decade we conducted these

Capital Campaigns: EXPECT A MIRACLE;

WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE;

POWERFUL POSSIBILITIES; and the

anniversary MIRACLE MONTH OF MARCH

which raised one million dollars in one

month to build Luke’s Lodge for our Youth

Ministry.

The total cost of all of the capital campaign

projects in the past decade was million.

These capital campaigns have raised

million, so we currently have an indebted-

ness of million. We have about ,

on hand to pay the mortgage for the next

two years but will then need to develop a

plan for mortgage payments after 2011.

A DECADE of Mission Giving

In the generous people of St. Luke’s gave about , in mission giv-

ing to projects in our community, nation and world. By the generous

people of St. Luke’s had more than doubled that amount to ,,. Over

the past decade it is estimated that we have given over million above our

budget and capital campaigns to mission giving beyond St. Luke’s.

A DECADE of Clergy

In our full-time clergy staff consisted of Kent Millard,

Linda McCoy, Richard Moman, Carolyn Scanlan and Dennis

Flaugher, with Al Nunery part time.

In , our full-time clergy staff consisted of Kent Millard,

Linda McCoy, Marsha Hutchinson, Marion Miller and Stan

Abell, and Adolf Hansen part time.

During the past decade we have also been blessed to also

have Gene Merrick, Jean Wilson, Brent Wright, and Brian

Durand (full time) and Max Case and Don Griffith (part

time) serve as pastoral leaders on our staff.

We are delighted that DAVID WILLIAMSON and JAMALYN

PEIGH WILLIAMSON (see left) have joined our clergy team

starting January , , bringing a new generation of

clergy leaders to serve our congregation in Children’s,

Family, Men’s and Missions ministry areas. Adding these

two new young clergy persons to our team is an exciting

way to launch our next decade of ministry.

A DECADE of Giving

In total giving at St. Luke’s from all sources (pledges, identified and cash gifts, capital

gifts, Garden income, endowment and missions giving) was ,,.

In total giving at St. Luke’s from all sources was ,,, an increase of ,,,

or a % increase in giving over the past ten years.

I thank God for the long-term generous giving of the people of St. Luke’s in supporting

God’s work through this congregation.

1999 2009

WORSHIP ATTENDANCE: 2,359 2,940 (25% increase)

MEMBERSHIP: 4,328 6,299 (45% increase)

GIVING: about $4 million about $6.2 million (56% increase)

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THE NEXT DECADE

I don’t know if eagles can see into the future, but the eagles on our Governing Board have sought

to look into the future to discern where God is leading during this next decade. Here are the four

visions areas as seen and discerned by our Governing Board in consultation with the staff and lay

leaders of our congregation. It is our belief that as we pursue these visions God will continue to

bring new L.I.F.E. to our world through the ministry of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church.

1. Leadership: During the next decade we want to train and develop a new and younger core of

clergy, lay and staff leaders to lead St. Luke’s into the future. We are aware that we will transition to

new lead pastors at St. Luke’s and The Garden before the next decade is over. Our Governing Board

is preparing for that transition by developing a profile of our congregation and profiles of the gifts

and graces we are looking for in future leaders.

2. Impact: St. Luke’s has always made a significant impact in the greater Indianapolis area as a

leading public congregation and in mission outreach throughout our nation and our world. We are

in the process of determining how we can increase our impact beyond our congregation so that we

can move closer to God’s vision for St. Luke’s, which is to “be transformed by God and transform-

ing the world into a compassionate, just, inclusive, Christ-like community.”

3. Foundation: The foundations which support all of St. Luke’s ministries have to do with

providing and maintaining the necessary facilities and finances for worship, education, fellowship,

outreach and service. We thank God for the leaders of our Administrative Committees (Staff

Parish, Finance, Trustees, Stewardship, Lay Leadership and Endowment) who provide the under-

girding support for all of the ministries of St. Luke’s. We celebrate that our Endowment has reached

about . million in assets, of which the earnings provide about , each year to support

St. Luke’s ministries.

4. Engagement: One of our primary visions is to engage more people in all of the ministries of

St. Luke’s. Our Servant Day last August and our Open House in January helped us engage many

more people in the mission and ministries of St. Luke’s.

Our vision is that all of our ministries would focus on one or more of these vision areas and help

us move in these directions to continue to allow God’s spirit to breathe L.I.F.E. into our congregation,

our community and our world. We continue to accomplish these goals through our ongoing

T.I.M.E. initiative—being Together In Ministry Everyday. In that way, we spend our LIFE TIME

being conduits of God’s never-ending love.

l.i.f.e.

looking forward...

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MAJOR SPEAKERS Coming in 2010

We are delighted to help host these major national and international speakers during 2010:

1. A.J. Jacobs—bestselling author from New York who has written THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLI-

CALLY will speak at St. Luke’s at 7PM on Wednesday, March 2.

2. His Holiness the Dalai Lama—will be hosted by the Indianapolis Interfaith Hunger

Initiative, the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington and the Indiana

Buddhist Center in Indianapolis at Conseco Fieldhouse at 9:30AM on Friday, May 14. St. Luke’s is

a vital part of the Interfaith Hunger Initiative bringing the Dalai Lama to Indianapolis.

3. Greg Mortensen—builder of schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan and bestselling author

of THREE CUPS OF TEA and STONES INTO SCHOOLS will be at St. Luke’s speaking to children in

one session and to college students and adults in another on Monday, September 27, 2010.

ST. LUKE’S IS BLESSED TO HAVE DEDICATED

AND COMMITTED LAY, STAFF AND CLERGY

LEADERSHIP who go far beyond the call of

duty daily to serve the spiritual and personal

needs of people in St. Luke’s, in our commu-

nity and our world.

We are especially grateful for the missions to

the people of Haiti which St. Luke’s leaders

have supported for this past decade and

which will need even more support during

the next decade as they rebuild from the dev-

astating earthquake of January , . As

we pray for the many thousands of people

who lost their lives in that earthquake and

the millions injured or displaced, we thank

God for the safe return of our Haiti team

members of Rev. Jamalyn Peigh Williamson,

Gary and Kay Walla, Denise Jean-Claude and

Danny Chin, as well as those team members

from Milroy UMC.

Isaiah reminds us that those of us who trust

in God and surrender ourselves and our con-

gregation into God’s hands will rise up on

wings like eagles. My prayer is that as we sur-

render ourselves and our plans into the

hands of God, we will feel God coming

underneath us and raising us up on wings

like eagles so that we can see more clearly

where God is leading us in the future.

Grace and Peace,

Kent Millard

During , the St. Luke’s congregation continued to generouslysupport the ministries of the church with their financial gifts.

Gifts received for Powerful Possibilities Campaign ,

Other Capital Campaign/Building Fund Gifts ,

TOTAL Capital Gifts ,

Gifts toward Annual Operating Fund ,,

Gifts received for support of The Garden ,

Funds received for Missions/Designated Funds/Programs** ,,

Gifts received for St. Luke’s Endowment ,

TOTAL Gifts received for Operations/Outreach ,,

TOTAL Gifts Received from the St. Luke’s Family in $ ,,

** Sampling of Outreach Ministries receiving assistance in

••• Total gifts and contributions made to world and community groups from UMW, The Garden, Singles, Children’s and other ministries

were over ,.

••• St. Luke’s also contributed , through apportionments to the

work of the United Methodist Church throughout the world.

: The congregation continues to respond to St. Luke’s mission with their Prayers, Presence, Service and Gifts.

# of Families Pledging Total Pledges Average Pledge ,, ,

,, ,

,, ,

,, ,

,, ,

2009

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pledges

Appalachian Project, Hazard, KYBrightwood Community CenterCaring Churches NetworkChanging FootprintsConstruction Ministries (SAWS)D’Iberville Volunteer CenterEarthquake and Flood ReliefFirst Baptist Food BankFletcher Place Community CenterFox Hill ElementaryFresh StartGlobal AIDS InitiativeHabitat for Humanity

(Indianapolis; Collier County, Naples, FL; John’s Island, SC; Ft. Myers, FL)

Haitian Academy training of medical students and agriculture

Heifer ProjectHonduras Medical MissionIndiana United Methodist

Children’s HomeInterfaith Hunger Initiative

IPS School 20 PartnershipIU/Kenya AIDS/Power of OneInter-Faith AllianceJohn Wesley School, Jeremie, HaitiLiberia, AfricaLucille Raines ResidenceManna from HeavenMar EliasMidwest Mission Distribution CenterNeema OrphanageOperation Classroom in

Sierra Leone and LiberiaOutreach, Inc.Sierra Leone, AfricaTree of Life, South DakotaUMCORUnited Christmas ServiceUnited Methodist Children’s Home

in KentuckyVida Nueva Food PantryWorld Missions support of work tripsZimbabwe Water Project

2009 Annual Income StatementPledge Income ,,

Identified Plate ,

Loose Plate ,

Christmas/Easter ,

Special Gifts ,

Gain/Loss on Securities ()Prior Year Pledges ,

Facility Rental ,

Church School

Sundays in the South ,

Annual Designated ,

TOTAL Income ,,

Confessions of Faith

Confirmation Class

Transfer from UMC

Other Denominations

TOTAL New Members

Removal of Members

Withdrawn

Transfer to Other UMC

To Other Denominations

Deaths

TOTAL Withdrawn

Net Membership Gain

Membership

Baptisms

Preparatory / Children under 18

Constitutents

Average Worship Attendance

St. Luke’s Worship

The Garden

TOTAL

Board of Trustees ,

Staff Parish Relations ,,

Church Apportionments ,

Program Budgets ,

TOTAL Expenses ,,

Net ,

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Welcoming New MembersDuring we welcomed new members at St. Luke’s and lost members by death, transfers or

withdrawal for a net gain of members. The total membership of St. Luke’s is , at the end of .mem

bership

St. Luke’s StaffST. LUKE’S CLERGY STAFF: Kent Millard, Linda McCoy, Marsha Hutchinson, Marion Miller, Stan Abell, David Williamson,Jamalyn Williamson, Adolf Hansen

ST. LUKE’S STAFF: Kathy Alexander, Administrative Team Assistant; JasonBarnes, Director of AV/Media; Dawn Bick, Assistant Director of Children’sMinistry, Elementary; Betty Brandt, Director of Spiritual Life Center; KristiChamberlain, Childcare Coordinator; Terri Coe, Director of Adult Ministries;Marsha Coyner, Director of Joyful Rhythms; Lori Crantford, Director ofCommunications, Marketing & Development; Kevin Davis, Director of YouthMinistries; Jan Emmons, Finance; Sylvia Forbes, Membership & Care; BertieGilster, Receptionist; Mary Hach, Assistant Director of Children’s Ministry, EarlyChildhood; Adolf Hansen, Theologian in Residence; Leslie Hazelwood,Facilities; Kathleen Headington, Associate Director of Youth Ministries; MarthaHeinrich, IT Manager; Carol Helmus, Special Event/Wedding Coordinator;Sharon Holyoak, Oasis Bookstore Manager; Julia Johnson, Executive Directorof Ministries; Mike Keller, Director of Wesleyan Ringers; Faina Kleyner,Finance; Beth Lammers, Building Scheduler; Erica Lampe, Benefits/Development Assistant; Tujuianna Lockhart, Facilities; Bobbi Main-Jackson,Director of Weekday Ministries; Charles Manning, Assistant Director of MusicMinistries; Linda McGlothlin, Adult Ministries; Bonnie McMenamin, MusicMinistries Assistant; Janet Miller, Children’s Ministries; DeAnna Moran, AdultMinistries Registrar; Rickie Murphy, Facilities; Debra Nethercott, Director ofChildren’s Music; Sarah Nevin, Publications Design; Jan Nichols, Coordinatorof World Missions Projects; Julie O’Connor, Administration & Celebration Team;Matt Peyton, Associate Director of Youth Ministries; Rich Potterf, Building &Grounds Ministry; Brian Schnitz, Facilities; Mary Katherine Schnitz, Directorof Care Ministries; Cara Scott, Receptionist; Kelly Scott, Facilities; WinnieSibotshiwe, Facilities; Mark Squire, Director of Music Ministries; Tara-LynneSinicki, Director of Children’s Ministries; Ben Spillman, Facilities; AlisonStrawmyer, Assistant Director & Registrar, Weekday Preschool & Parent’s Day OutProgram; William Taylor, Facilities; Jayne Moynahan Thorne, Director ofOutreach Ministries; Chris Thornsberry, Associate Director of Adult Ministries;Cheryl West, Director of New Song; Adra Wheeler, Director of Hospitality &Volunteers; Rich Wisman, Facilities.

THE GARDEN CLERGY STAFF: Linda McCoy, Stan Abell THE GARDEN STAFF: Troye Kinnett, Director, The Good Earth Band; Steve Whipkey, Director, Oak Hill Band; Judy Tolley, Administrative TeamLeader; Beth Fried, Communications & Worship; Larry Fletcher, Director ofMarketing & Operations

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Some of our new members in 2009.