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The article in Church Life! was writtn by Bill Benedict.

The summer issue of Church Life!, the magazine of the Epsicoal Diocese of Ohio, reported in its summer 2010 issue on the successful capital campaign conducted by St. Peters, Lakewood, OH.

For more than 100 years St. Peter's has served as the sprititual home for its members.  It's current building was completd in 1927 and exterior restoration work condoucted in 2008 earned an award from the Lakewood City Council.  The members of the congregation continued to dream about how to further improve its facilties, making them safe, accessible, effiecient, and sustainable for the future, but the work already completed left them with a debt to pay.

Read about how St. Peter's partnered with ECF to set priorities, engage the entire congregation, and set an attainable campaign goal.  Not only did St. Peter's meet that goal of $1 million, but exceeded it, raising $1.7 million in pledges.