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Just One Step! 2025 This year's canvass theme is Just One Step! Let's all take Just One Step this year and pledge to the support of our church. Pledging your support is part of your membership in our church. When you take Just One Step to pledge, you are "sharing the ministry of the congregation through your gifts of time, talent and money." This is part of our covenant and is part of your membership in our church. As a member, you should be returning a pledge each year. Your pledge can be in any amount, but I encourage you to give as you are able. How do your donations support our church? Your donations go straight to our staff and programs. We are very fortunate that our building mostly pays for itself through $140,000 in annual rentals. That is a very unique position for a church and helps keep our pledging target reasonable. Each year we need to raise about $160,000 in donations to support our staff and programs. That works out to about $1000 for each church member. Are you donating $1000 a year to support your membership? So please take Just One Step this year and pledge your financial support to your church. Canvass runs from January until the end of March. During this time, we ask all of our members to take Just One Step and pledge their financial support for the coming church year. Your pledge directly affects planning for next year's church programs and activities as we have to budget within our means. Please return your pledge before March 31st. Andrew Mills 2025 Canvass Over the next few months I am going to share thoughts of how we can be here together and support our church. I'll do that through newsletter articles, talks in church, with this canvass web site, and through emails and letters that I will send to our donor members and friends.           Pledge Now! Canvass time is when you, the members and friends of our church, tell us what your financial intentions are for the coming year. We need to gather your intentions of support so that we can prepare our annual budgets. Between now and the end of March I will be asking all members (and interested friends) to provide a pledge of financial support which we will use to prepare our budget in the spring. On this little web site you will find a number of helpful explanations that I don't have space to include elsewhere. It is also where you can find the online pledge form, information on how to set up preauthorized deposits, and information on the on-line payment sites we have set up so that you can pay your pledge. Why and how much should you give to UCE? I try to answer that question in a couple of articles on this web site. I also try and post the letters and articles that I use in the canvass here so that you can see what I have sent to people over the course of the campaign. So please fill out your pledge before the end of March. Thank you to www.pexels.com for the free use of their images.