Giving in Gratitude

Each year, during the month of November, Hennepin Church participants make their financial pledge estimate for the coming year. Already you have received a color information brochure, and soon you will receive your pledge card by mail. You can also click here to download the pledge card now

Please mail, email, or bring your response to church. If every household at Hennepin would pledge, we could fully fund all our 2010 ministries!

Never pledged before? Why not start now? Every gift of every size is important! May your gratitude guide your giving for 2010.

Marla Tipping, Stewardship Chair
Chris Jackson, Minister of Administration

A Letter from Bruce Robbins:

Dear Hennepin friends,

A couple of years ago, I placed a painting on my office wall that included a saying I wanted to remember: Attitude of Gratitude. I probably feared that I took too much credit for my own accomplishments, or maybe I was afraid that I felt—deep down—that I deserved abundance of life that surrounded me.

One way to “fix myself” was to put up such a saying so that I would look at it daily and try to remember. But more importantly I began to realize what a hold my “good life and possessions” have on me. Then I wanted to learn how to let go, without losing my grip on the important things! What is the best way to let go? One theologian calls it a “theology of relinquishment.” I like a different approach. I like joining you to find ways to serve and make the world a better place, a more beautiful place, a more just place.

Can Hennepin Church help you and me to have an attitude of gratitude? Can you see this church as a place that helps us catch a glimpse of the incredible gift of life and abundance we have been given? Can the church give us opportunities to serve and love others—people and issues we may not have come to know on our own? I believe so. And I hope, quite simply, that the church can instill the love of God in our hearts, through the wonderful Christ.

Our church lives through the people who love it and support it. It is fragile because all of us are imperfect disciples, trying and sometimes failing to heed God’s call. But we have had many saints before us, and they are examples for us.

Several years ago I began to tithe to Hennepin Church. At first it was hard; now it is part of my life. Does it help me? I pray so. Please look at what you have been given. Then look at what you can give. We are grateful to you. We are trying to hold the budget as close to last year as possible. We need your support and generosity.

You may return the pledge sheet to the church, either by mail or place in the worship offering. The pledge sheet is also on this page of the website.

Hennepin Church is an amazing place that God has blessed. We are gathering gratitude and finding a myriad of ways to be thankful in this holy place.

Grace and peace,

Bruce Robbins, pastor

On behalf of all the clergy, staff, and finance leaders of the congregation