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SUSTAINING
A COURAGEOUS COMMUNITY OF LOVE


Jubilee! Community's Pledge Campaign for 2021

Hi Fellow Jubilants,

This is a time of year that our wild and wonderful Jubilee! Community gets practical. We do what’s needed to keep the magic flowing.  We pledge financial support for the next year.

I realized recently that Pledging = Solidarity.

Isn’t that what it comes down to?  Solidarity.  Committing to financially support Jubilee! Community is a way we show our solidarity with this amazing community. “Solidarity” says that we are one with the Jubilee! Community.  We don’t just “attend” Jubilee! (in person pre-Covid and virtually now) or support Jubilee.  We are the Jubilee! Community.

Our 2020 pledge drive theme reminds us that by pledging, we are “Sustaining a Courageous Community of Love.”  Courageous love is both our identity and our mission. 

Our community of courageous love blesses those of us who are insiders.  Think of all the times that the hugs, smiles, music, tears, helping hands and messages have kept you going on your journey of healing, forgiving, being forgiven, being transformed and learning to keep hope alive.   And our community of courageous love blesses everything and everyone we touch – like the hungry folks we’ve fed recently with Bounty & Soul, and our homeless neighbors who’ll have a “warming center” at Jubilee in coming weeks (https://wlos.com/news/local/homeward-bound-warming-center-now-open-for-those-in-need), or neighbors who’ll be able to pay heating bills thanks to Jubilee.  Courageous love is highly contagious.

How are we doing in our pledges?  Drumroll please…  As of Thanksgiving, 65 Jubilants have pledged a total of $125,000.  We are on our way! But, we only have a few weeks left to reach our goal.

The $296,000 in pledges at the start of 2020 anticipated a normal year.  This year has been anything but.  Staff have accepted reductions in compensation, and Covid-distancing has pushed out some staff roles, e.g., our children’s nurture programs.  Some fixed expenses go on, though; mortgage, utility, insurance, etc.  

What do we need to thrive in 2021?  We have no way to foresee whether or when in 2021 we will be able to resume meeting at 46 Wall Street, but our Jubilee! Community of courageous (and resilient) love will evolve and thrive as we have in 2020.  Our tentative 2021 expense budget is $300,000.  Pledges to date will cover 42% of those expenses.  

You are a vital part of this Community.  Without you we are not complete.  If you’ve hesitated to pledge because your income is limited or uncertain, consider taking a courageous leap of faith to add your YES to help Sustain this Courageous Community of Love.  Follow this link (https://jubileecommunity.org/make-a-pledge/) to make your pledge today.

With warm regards,
W. Michael Smith
Jubilee Board Member
 

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Please donate to the hunger baskets or Jubilee!'s operating costs or both.  Jubilee! continues to have expenses to keep running.  And know all hunger basket donations are going to Bounty & Soul and other organizations providing COVID relief.
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