Campaign Update

Through our congregation’s generosity and funding commitments from other sources, we have fully funded five of the six elements of the Transformed capital campaign.   Fundraising continues to complete our new Community Youth Center at the St. Luke’s Gethsemane campus in our Gulfton neighborhood. Costs of this facility increased substantially due to inflation and the supply chain issues experienced since the campaign launched in 2021.

We acknowledge with gratitude, all Transformed gifts received to date from members of our congregation, as well as from five family foundations, 15 private foundations (one of which is a $2 million challenge grant paid only once the entire gap is closed), one government grant from the Southwest Houston Redevelopment Authority, and a contribution from St. Luke’s Foundation. The remaining gap to complete the final element of the campaign, the Community Youth Center, now stands at $560,000. Last mile gifts from those wanting to ensure the challenge grant is met, can help us make up this funding difference and bridge the gap!

The Bible’s story of God’s love for us begins in a garden but it ends in a city – the City of God. Here at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, all our family of ministries share the same vision – A City Transformed by the Love of Jesus. We believe we are here for a reason: to be sent by Jesus, motivated by his love, to bring about God’s preferred future for the city in which we have been placed, and to invite people to be a part of the City of God. Houston is our primary mission field. God tells the prophet, Jeremiah, to “seek the welfare of the city to which I have sent you.” Houston is our home, and we love this city, and our calling is to be an instrument of its transformation.