Welcome to the 2025-26 Stewardship Program!
This year's small information meetings are offered in-person. If you prefer to attend via Zoom, please let us know, and we can set that up for you. As always we will try to keep the meeting to a half hour. It’s a chance for you to share why you support our community, hear the latest budget and pledge information, ask questions with your fellow members, and make an informed choice about your pledge for the 2025-2026 church year. If you’re not able to join us for your scheduled meeting, you can always join us for a later meeting. We look forward to seeing and talking with you soon!
Schedule of Stewardship Information Meetings for 2025-26:
All meetings are in person unless noted otherwise. If you are not comfortable meeting in-person, please let us know via email here, and a Zoom meeting will be arranged. If you are not sure of your scheduled meeting, you can contact admin@lcuuc.org, you can find the list posted in the social hall (when available), or you can login through the Member's Access section to find it (when available.)
Stewardship Program 2025-26
2025:
October 5
October 19
November 2
November 16
December 7
Makeup December 16
2026:
January 4
January 18
February 1
February 15
Makeup March 1
2025-26 Meeting Notes
How to make a pledge:
There are two ways of making your pledge:
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Submit your information online using the electronic 2025-26 Pledge Card. Remember, when you have finished filling out the online pledge form, please click the SUBMIT button at the bottom of the page to make sure it gets to us. You will immediately receive a 'thank-you' message.
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Print out the downloadable Pledge Card complete, and mail it to: LCUUC, W299N5595 Grace Drive, Hartland, WI 53029.
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You can find the paper version in the office on top of the lock box on the desk. Fill it out and drop it into the lock box.
The information submitted through this online process or through postal mail will be received only by the LCUUC Administrator and continues to be processed with privacy as the highest priority. Please contact the office at admin@lcuuc.org with any questions or concerns.
To the right is a link to the charts that will be presented in the stewardship meetings (updated charts and notes for this new year will be uploaded when available). Feel free to download and print these out using the download link below.
Thank you for participating in the Stewardship Program!
As always, the stewardship task force is very grateful for all the ongoing member contributions, especially to those who increased their pledge last year to successfully reduce the deficit. We are also grateful not only for financial contributions but for time, talent, and leadership contributions.
Our community is a refuge for those people who feel bombarded by all those negative public messages that challenge our values. It is a place that provides an outlet for people to put their values into actions, with our active social justice and environmental action groups. We’re happy to report that last year we gained in membership over the previous year. Our Board has funded more marketing for local outreach. Rev. Matt starts his third year of full-time ministry at LCUUC, and LCUUC benefits from that continuity and his presence.
Expenses: Staffing is the largest part of our budget. The budget for this year reflects 3% COLA increases as well as additional needed funds for music and marketing. After staffing, the annual mortgage expense of $27,630 is the largest single expense. The mortgage will be renegotiated in Nov ’26, and is anticipated to be at a higher interest rate. The membership expense is mainly UUA fair share.
Income: Pledged contributions are still by far the greatest source of our revenue. Generous pledge increases and new membership last year helped reduce the annual deficit. We are still highly dependent on the top contributors that fund half of the pledges, but it is encouraging that the second and third quartiles both gained last year.
Dividing the total pledges by the number of members, the average contribution per member is now $1,861/yr.
As a minimum, to continue to cover 3% increases in our expenses, our goal is to see pledges increase by $8600, which is $70/yr per member, or less than $6/month. Small increases by large numbers of people adds up! Please do what you can to help make a difference!
As you consider your pledge amount, think about how this community enriches and supports your life and the lives of others, offers benefits to the wider community, and how your generosity is its lifeblood now and into the future.
As always, the Fair Share Contribution guide is another view of determining what to give.
We were up to the challenge last year, and if we all pull together, thanks to you this year will be no different!