Pine Lake Covenant Church Pledges $1.3 Million for Outreach

Pine Lake Covenant Church Pledges $1.3 Million for Community Outreach

By Debora Buerk

SAMMAMISH, WASHINGTON — Pine Lake Covenant Church in Sammamish announced that its congregation has pledged more than $1.3 million through a capital campaign drive.

Brad Board, chairman of the Accelerate the Vision Capital Campaign, announced the congregation has pledged more than $1,311,000 as the six-month campaign concluded. Board thanked the 200 people from the congregation who helped conduct the campaign and recognized the 15 campaign leaders who spearheaded the effort.

“I’m gratified by the results of the campaign as I think about the next ten years for our church and how we can better grow as followers of Christ, and in our relationship with our neighbors,” said Board.

The capital campaign was conducted to help provide resources for the church’s five-year strategic plan. The 2020 Vision is built around five values: outreach, discipleship, intergenerational life, diversity, and stewardship.

“The Accelerate the Vision Campaign enables us to move with a measure of urgency in these areas, particularly community outreach,” explained Mark Meredith, lead pastor at Pine Lake Covenant Church.

“Accelerate the Vision is primarily about leveraging existing resources for ministry expansion, not building expansion,” Meredith continued. “But even more, it’s about faith expansion,” he added.

Specifically, the $1.3 million dollars pledged will free up about $60,000 a year for new outreach programs through mortgage reduction. Fifty percent of the monies raised will reduce the church’s $1.53 million mortgage. Forty percent of the funds raised are earmarked for updating and repurposing existing space for ministry development. Finally, $130,000, or ten percent of the amount raised, represents a tithe for global and local missions, such as providing a clean water system in Kodera, Kenya.

At the church’s annual meeting in June, the congregation will elect a team to oversee the allocation of the funds to specific projects and programs.

The congregation will fulfill their 128 campaign pledges over the next three years. The church has already received more than $245,000 in contributions, according to Meredith.