Pure Endowment Campaigns

Pure Endowment Campaigns

Horizons has long been a major proponent of adding endowment to campaigns for facilities. A great many of our clients put 10% of any campaign for a building into an endowment to care for the building going forward.

First United Methodist of Texarkana, Arkansas wanted to have a campaign designed 100% to fund an endowment for their 10-year old downtown church. They knew that after 10 years, major maintenance issues could start surprising them every year and hamper ministry. They contacted ministry strategist Mike Hedges and asked him to prepare such a campaign working with the pastor and an excellent lay team. Mike designed a unique campaign that had great appeal to the membership. Over $1,000,000 was raised just for endowment. This amount will go into an account that will produce $50,000-$100,000 a year. These funds will come out of the operating budget probably forever and free leaders to focus on ministry not maintenance. This is an extremely far-sighted church. Well done all!