I know many of our friends across the country have been faithfully praying for our Dominate campaign. For that reason, now that I’ve had the opportunity to share the results with our congregation, I’d like to share them with the rest of you as well. Rejoice in the Lord with us today. God has done something truly phenomenal here in Charlotte.
Injoy Stewardship Services, the company we worked with throughout the campaign, projected that $3 million over a 3 year campaign would be an extremely ambitious goal for a less-than-2-year-old-never-done-a-campaign-before church like ours. Especially when you consider that we didn’t even have a specific project to raise money for. You can read the details about that here.
Furthermore, we decided to shorten our campaign to a 2 year time span, a move that was also very likely to decrease our total amount. But we sensed the leading of God, and we asked Him to do something so enormous and accelerated through our campaign that everyone would know that it could only be God.
We fasted, prayed, cast vision, and stretched our faith to the limit.
Honestly, there was nothing that could have prepared us for the outpouring of generosity that we experienced:
The incredible people of Elevation pledged a total of over $6,400,000 to our Dominate campaign!
I don’t think any of us saw that one coming. We knew God was going to show up big, but man! Over 6 million dollars in total pledges… it could only be God.
The most encouraging statistic of the entire campaign is the sheer number of families and individuals who participated. Injoy told us that the percentage of our people who participated was in the top 1% of all the campaigns they’ve ever conducted (they’ve conducted quite a few). In other words, we didn’t really have a bunch of fat cats making this thing happen. The success of our campaign is a testimony to the power of everybody. Commitments ranged from kids who gave all of their Disney World money (they had been saving for a year), to people who cashed out their retirement accounts. We all did all we could do. We reached our corporate tipping point.
And now, God will receive all the glory.
Oh, and you gotta check this one out. During the Dominate series, our attendance went up. I don’t understand it either. Our highest attended series in the history of the church was our capital campaign. It could only be God.
Now, Elevation is strategically positioned and resourced to Dominate our city with the Gospel and grace of Jesus. We are positioned to engage with any opportunity for expansion that God brings our way. The vision of 10,000 by 2010 will come to pass as we continue trusting God with a revolutionary faith.
I am so proud of you Elevation Church. And the best is yet to come. All glory to Jesus!