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Transcript of Annual-Report-2009
. Street • Indianapolis,
Telephone: -- • Fax: -- • www.stlukesumc.com
~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
by th
e num
bers
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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
. Street • Indianapolis, • Telephone: -- • Fax: --
www.stlukesumc.com
Some of our new members in 2009.