Legacy of a Lifetime

ROBERT SESSUM is a retired Episcopal priest with fifty years of ordained ministry. He served small and large congregations in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Bob was instrumental in instituting a variety of stewardship campaigns throughout his career, including a highly successful planned gifts program. L. PENDLETON ARMISTEAD has thirty-five years of resource development experience for not-for-profit organizations. During his career as a consultant, he has raised over $750 million. A “Cradle Episcopalian,” Pendleton has been actively involved in many volunteer capacities including managing planned, annual, and major gifts campaigns and conducting strategic planning initiatives.

“Bob Sessum and Pend Armistead have published the tools that they employed successfully at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Lexington, Kentucky. The full campaign was accomplished solely by the members of the church in leadership roles without outside consultants.”—Kathy Gross, Former Senior Warden, The Church of the Good Shepherd, Lexington, Kentucky