Curious about our Capital Campaign?
Here’s where we are!
Current Step: Quiet Phase
We are starting with early gifts (quiet phase) this summer. We have families who hold leadership positions in the church, including Session members, Deacons, the Admin Committee, and Campaign Cabinet members, who will be asked to make an early investment due to their role. Additionally, we have families who, through the feasibility study, indicated a willingness to step forward early in the campaign, before the full congregation is invited to make their commitments later this fall. In fact, we have already received several gifts and pledges. Please be in prayer as this phase of the campaign begins!
More Information
Campaign Priorities
Case for Support
Campaign Leadership
Meet our Consultants
Process Overview
What can I do?
Foundations of Faith Campaign Priorities
Campaign Goal: $4.0-4.2M
Based upon the congregation’s thoughtful feedback in our Feasibility Study, our campaign will focus on three main priorities:
- Stewarding Our Church Home
- Replace HVAC and upgrade to four-pipe system
- Replace sanctuary windows
- Refresh sanctuary (painting, refinishing, new carpet)
- Welcoming All
- Replace parlor elevator
- Add ramp to the chancel
- Loving Our Neighbors
- 10% tithe of what we raise, to be distributed by the Local Outreach Committee
Case for Support and FAQs
Read all about our goals for this campaign!
Note: If you were part of our feasibility process, you may notice some changes to this document! The size and scope of the campaign were adjusted in response to congregational feedback.
Questions about some of the details? Check out our FAQ document:
Campaign Leadership
Campaign Cabinet (May 2025-present):
Debbie Bevin
John Blythe
Allison Chambers
Megan Crunkleton
Jim Evans
Jay Klompmaker
Anna Rose Medley
Jonathan Robinson
Meg Robinson
Kelly Ross
Bill Whisenant
John Wilson
Ashley Wilson
Ken Younts
Meg Peery McLaughlin (staff liaison)
Erin Collier (staff liaison)
Meet Our Consultants
After a thorough interview process, the Campaign Readiness Committee recommended, and the Session approved, that we hire Armstrong McGuire to be our consulting firm for both our feasibility study and our capital campaign. Meet our consultants!
Mendi Nieters
Mendi Nieters, a Senior Advisor with Armstrong McGuire, will serve as lead counsel, working in partnership with Managing Director, Shannon Williams.
Mendi brings 22 years of development and nonprofit management experience to Armstrong McGuire. Her passion is creating mission-centered, high-performing development teams comprised of staff, board members, and volunteers. Her nonprofit career began at the National MS Society where she tripled her chapter’s annual income, transitioned the board to a strategic fundraising base, and ultimately served as the organization’s Vice President of Development. Mendi also served as the Regional Vice President of Development for the American Lung Association and Director of Development with Alliance Medical Ministry and later Comfort Zone Camp. Mendi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from North Carolina State University.
She is a lifelong native of North Carolina living in Apex with her husband and her two sons. She is an active member and lay leader at Apex United Methodist Church.
Shannon Williams
Shannon Williams joined Armstrong McGuire in 2008, bringing more than two decades of development experience to the team. Today, she serves as Managing Director. Before joining Armstrong McGuire, she worked with independent schools and human service organizations, including the YMCA of the Triangle, focusing on both annual and capital development. Throughout her career Shannon has been a leader of successful capital campaigns ranging from $1 million to more than $96 million. Effectively motivating and managing volunteers, donors and staff has been a trademark of her career.
She is the wife of a Triangle businessman, the mother of two 20-something sons and an active community volunteer. She lives in Chapel Hill where she engages in ministry and worships at the UNC Newman Center.
Capital Campaign Process
What’s Happened So Far:
November 2022: Vision Team is commissioned by Session to consider possible projects for a future capital campaign.
November 2022-May 2024: Vision Team spends time dreaming, researching, and discerning potential project scopes.
May 2024: Vision Team presents their ideas to Session; Session approves the creation of a Capital Campaign Readiness Committee to select a consulting firm to help lead a feasibility study.
June 2024-September 2024: Readiness Committee is formed, consultants are researched and interviewed
October 2024: Readiness Committee recommends to Session that we hire Armstrong McGuire to lead our feasibility study; Session approves
November 2024-present: Armstrong McGuire guides the Readiness Committee in the feasibility study pre-work.
January-February 2025: Feasibility Study (To read a summary of the feasibility study findings, click here.)
March 2025: Scope and structure of the campaign are finalized, based upon Feasibility Study results
April 2025: Recommendation is presented to Session for approval; Session votes to approve
May 2025: Campaign Cabinet is formed
What’s To Come:
Summer 2025: Quiet Phase; Invite early commitments from church leaders and families who have indicated a willingness to consider an early investment (summer 2025)
Early September 2025: Determine final goal number based upon quiet phase response.
Fall 2025: Public Phase; Launch a comprehensive 3-year capital campaign alongside the annual Stewardship Campaign.
Summer 2026: Anticipated timing for most of the construction work
What can I do?
A capital campaign is a big undertaking! Here is how you can help:
Pray.
Prayer is crucial to every step of this campaign! In particular, we ask that you pray for:
- our Campaign Cabinet and consultants as they lead us through this process
- our congregation as we begin to embark on this campaign
- ways in which you might be led to participate in this campaign (volunteering, giving, etc.)
Stay tuned.
We’ll share more as the process continues, including volunteer opportunities!
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