Dear Hope East Church,

Below please find our annual giving report for 2025. Thank you to all our members for your financial contributions and allowing us to sustain ourselves as a ministry and community of faith. We are excited for what the Lord is going to do in 2026!

OUR YEAR OF GIVING

We are grateful for all those who gave this past year! Our 2026 Total Annual Giving was $670,488.41. This includes our Extending Hope Giving Campaign where we raised $129,183.00 ($10,000.00 goes towards our Missionaries Jane and Kevin Moore; and $119,183.00 was for our move to the Viscardi Center in 2026).

The total expenses for 2025 came out to $575,104.71. Of that amount $327,757.56 went into personnel (three full time staff and five part time); $77,169.68 local and global missions giving; $89,323.00 the cost of facility rental (Sunday rental + Viscardi Center first month rent/security deposit); $63,070.19 ministry expenses; $9,223.49 administrative costs (includes insurance and accounting firm); $4,810.44 Sunday Service operations needs (meals, hospitality, etc); $2,975.55 special services (Christmas Eve, Good Friday, Easter); and $774.80 equipment purchases (worship and hospitality).

It has been a tremendous joy to work with our staff and church council. I love this church, and I believe that is the primary reason God has called us Christians to build our community, in order for us to love it. We are called to love, not because our community is perfect (it certainly is not), not because it doesn’t have its challenges (it most definitely does), but because God has first loved us. I pray that 2026 will be another year filled with His love!

In Christ,

David Jung

“We love because he has first loved us.” - John 4:19