A Report from President Richard J. Mouw:

Leading Change Campaign Meets $148 Million Goal,
One of the Largest Ever for a Theological Seminary

Dear Friends,

How gratified I am to share with you this concluding report on Leading Change: The Campaign for Fuller Theological Seminary. It's all great news! We took a bold, groundbreaking step with Leading Change, by far the largest and broadest fundraising campaign in our seminary's history. As this grand undertaking concludes, I am thrilled to report that the results have met and even exceeded our expectations!

Eight years ago we launched an extensive, prayerful strategic planning process--with input from many people across the Fuller community--to identify our most important priorities going forward into the 21st century. From this emerged the Leading Change campaign, a comprehensive plan of eight initiatives--from new programs to new buildings to new scholarships--designed to help Fuller effectively equip new generations of Christian leaders to address the needs of a changing world.

What a leap of faith it was! Our total campaign goal, $148 million, was one of the largest ever for a theological seminary. To many, such a goal seemed almost unattainable.

Yet God is abundantly faithful--and over 4,000 individuals, churches, and foundations were abundantly generous in partnering with us to meet this goal. I can joyfully report to you today that the Leading Change campaign raised, in cash and pledges, an extraordinary total of $148,320,206.

This number represents so much more than dollars. It represents Fuller's deep desire to take the healing message of Christ to a changing world that presents us with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. It represents our desire to not just recognize these challenges, but to anticipate them with new programs, people, facilities, and resources. It also represents Fuller's desire to reach out to folks around the globe with an invitation to partner with us in building our future.

Indeed, since launching the "public phase" of the campaign in May 2005, we have shared the story of Fuller's plans and dreams through regional campaign events in more than 20 cities across the U.S. and in Korea. In addition to our kick-off events in Pasadena, California, we traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Phoenix, Arizona; Washington DC; Jackson, Wyoming; Medford, Oregon; Twin Cities, Minneapolis; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Honolulu, Hawaii; Seattle, Washington; Houston, Texas; Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, Indian Wells, San Diego, Costa Mesa, Santa Barbara, and San Joaquin Valley, California; and Seoul, South Korea! We also held an event in Pasadena for the Korean-American community, and concluded with a special event at the Skirball Cultural Center in West Los Angeles, California.

Through these events and other campaign communications, more than 1,000 individuals decided to partner financially with Fuller for the first time!

We celebrate the accomplishments of Leading Change, which have laid an important foundation for Fuller's continued growth into the 21st century. Below, I'd like to share more specifically about each of those campaign accomplishments:

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT   $24.9 MILLION RAISED
Our faculty at Fuller number among the world's most respected and influential seminary leaders. For us to continue providing intellectual nourishment for the renewal of the Church in the 21st century, we must retain these top evangelical scholars and recruit new ones--and that means offering them competitive compensation. The $24,895,574 raised for this initiative helps us do that, contributing to an endowment that will help raise faculty and staff salaries to appropriate levels as well as creating new chairs targeted to the changing needs of theological education. Four new faculty chairs have been established through these funds: two in the School of Psychology, one in the School of Theology, and one in the School of Intercultural Studies.

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS   $23.0 MILLION RAISED
We have always drawn bright, talented leaders to our campuses, creating that wonderful community of diversity our seminary is known for. But it has grieved me to know that financial barriers have kept some of those promising students from coming to Fuller--and for those who do attend, debt burdens can limit their ministry options after they graduate. Part of the $23,031,125 raised for this initiative has gone to Fuller's endowment to fund annual scholarships and grant-in-aid support for students across our seminary community, helping to lower the cost of tuition for students enrolled in all three schools as well as those attending our six extension campuses. Another portion was given directly to students in grant-in-aid during the campaign years.

STUDENT HOUSING   $9.4 MILLION RAISED
Fuller students need a hospitable living environment: one that will not only support their studies, but also encourage the intercultural community building that is foundational to the Fuller educational experience. Yet in recent years, we've had a growing waiting list for our limited student housing. This $9,372,997 went toward the completion of a new 179-unit apartment complex, the Do Won and Jin Sook Chang Student Housing Commons, which opened its doors in 2006. It's a beautiful complex of four large buildings arranged around a central courtyard, with underground parking beneath. The apartments range from studios for single students to four-bedroom townhouses for larger families--energy efficient, soundproof units--with welcoming common areas to promote community among the residents.

STUDENT SERVICE CENTER   $4.5 MILLION RAISED
This initiative contributed $4,473,393 toward our Leadership Development and Student Life Center, an attractive and efficient 38,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors in 2004. This center at our Pasadena campus--which we were providentially able to acquire and then renovate very cost-effectively--is a strategic center of support for students both locally and around the globe! It houses our Horner Center for Lifelong Learning, through which we are innovatively reaching out to leaders worldwide via six regional campuses and an expanding online program. It is also another important place of hospitality for students, conveniently bringing together 10 different student service departments--previously in 11 different buildings--under one roof, and providing three new classrooms equipped with the latest technology.

DAVID ALLAN HUBBARD LIBRARY AND COLLECTIONS   $26.2 MILLION RAISED
This new library, most fittingly named for Fuller's beloved past president David Allan Hubbard, will stand as a strategic Pacific Rim learning resource, benefiting not just the Fuller community but the Church worldwide. The $26,223,566 raised for this initiative is being applied toward construction of the new library--currently under way and scheduled to open in May 2009--as well as new collections, and the renovation of our existing adjacent McAlister Library. The new building will offer 51,000 square feet of needed space, allow us to expand our learning materials to about 1.4 million items, and provide for more than 200 new study spaces. This resource of scholarship is essential for our PhD students, and will reach beyond to many in the global Christian community.

WORSHIP AND ARTS CENTER   $24.8 MILLION RAISED
Fuller Seminary is increasingly seen as a leader in the study of worship and the arts, particularly through the work of our growing Brehm Center. Yet we have no worship center on our campus! The $24,824,020 raised thus far for this initiative will help fund a new Worship and Arts Center at our Pasadena campus. Its "green" design will be flexible, including a main chapel area usable for worship, performances, and other gatherings. And as Fuller draws increasing numbers of students to its worship and arts programs, this center will also offer dedicated spaces for the instruction and practice of preaching, music, dance, drama, and other performing arts.

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT   $29.7 MILLION RAISED
This $29,675,585 supports the development of a number of exciting programs and initiatives under way at Fuller, including: the work of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts, which seeks to empower and equip a changing generation of church leaders through the arts, media, and creative engagement of contemporary culture; our Center for Youth and Family Ministry, which helps today's youth and their families by equipping church youth workers with a new level of practical resources, training, and research; Leadership Development through the work of the De Pree Leadership Center, and through Fuller programs that are reaching out to leaders globally with accessible education--such as our Master of Arts in Global Leadership degree, a flexible online program leaders can complete from any location in the world, and other expanded degree offerings through our Horner Center for Lifelong Learning.

TECHNOLOGY   $1.2 MILLION RAISED
The $1,190,375 raised in this category has served to improve and enhance our seminary's technological capabilities in several ways. A network upgrade has vastly improved our infrastructure, providing for greater reliability, security, and faster computing performance for users around campus--and building a good foundation for future technology development. Ten upgraded, "smart" classrooms are now fitted with audio/visual technologies to enhance teaching and learning, offering faculty uniform, simple, and reliable equipment to use during instruction. Gifts in this area also allowed us to replace more than 40 faculty computers used for teaching and research.

UNDESIGNATED GIFTS AND CAMPAIGN COSTS   $4.6 MILLION RAISED
The Leading Change campaign also received gifts totaling $2,997,776 which are as yet undesignated for specific needs. In addition, $1,635,796 was given toward campaign costs.

The extraordinary success of this capital campaign simply would not have come about without the partnership--sometimes sacrificial--of so many individuals. Our trustees provided significant leadership and abundantly generous financial support to the cause of Leading Change. And many, many folks worked very hard to take our campaign message far and wide. I am deeply grateful to Pete Harkema, who expertly served as our director of Leading Change and vice president for advancement from the campaign's beginnings through mid-2007. I'm also truly thankful to our current vice president for advancement, Joe Webb, who has been very important in bringing the campaign to a successful conclusion. And I am exceedingly grateful to Lucy Guernsey, our recently retired director of alumni/ae and church relations, who so ably and enthusiastically led the campaign's public phase, taking the Leading Change message to an ever-broadening Fuller family. And, of course, thousands of friends, both old and new, stepped forward with the monetary gifts you see reflected above!

Several years ago, when Leading Change was still in its formative stages, Pete Harkema and I met with David Winter, former president of Westmont College, to learn from his experience in conducting a large campaign. I still remember his message to us, which went something like this: "Through this process," he said, "God will encourage and bless you in ways you couldn't have imagined at the outset." This has indeed been the case for me, as it has been for so many of us in leadership at Fuller. Ours is a faithful God! To him be the glory!

Richard J. Mouw
President