{"id":642,"date":"2018-05-16T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:07","slug":"what-im-learning-from-a-capital-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/what-im-learning-from-a-capital-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Learning from a Capital Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never in a million years dreamed I would be leading New Day Church in a capital campaign.<\/strong> I grew up hearing the horror stories of capital campaigns (i.e. the senior pastor was hospitalized during the process due to the stress, the church ran out of money in the middle of the project so construction had to stop, the church became completely focused on begging people for money, etc. etc. etc.).\u00a0As a result of these horror \u00a0stories, I had no interest in moving within 1,000 miles of a capital campaign (despite the encouragement from other leaders that I highly respect to do so).<\/p>\n

So my strategy was\u00a0to simply trust the Lord for the money we need to completely\u00a0renovate our building. <\/strong>Well, long story short, that strategy didn’t\u00a0pan out. And initially, it threw me for a loop. I felt God had let me down. Here I had put\u00a0my trust and faith in Him – because after all, He is Jehovah Jireh our\u00a0Provider – and\u00a0from my perspective, He wasn’t living up to His name.\u00a0I felt irritated with God to be frank.<\/p>\n

Out of necessity, not having the money we needed, I began to interview capital campaign companies and landed on Injoy Stewardship Solutions<\/a> based out of Anderson, SC.<\/strong> I was so hesitant at first, but every step of the way I’ve seen the value and wisdom of hiring such a company.<\/p>\n