Giving Options
To ensure that we reach our objectives and potential, all members and those with a special interest in our cause and church are asked to consider special gifts over and above any regular contributions. Campaign gifts can be made in a variety of ways:
Long-Term Pledges are gifts payable over three years. Pledges are easier for most people and are essential to meeting our goal since it would be impractical, if not impossible, to reach our objectives with one-time, out-of-pocket gifts. Gifts may be paid in monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual installments via cash, credit card, or direct deposit. A 10% or more initial investment toward your total pledge is requested.
Non-Cash Gifts* include securities such as stocks, bonds or gifts through qualified charitable distributions such as IRA rollovers; real estate such as marketable land, homes, vacation homes, and rental or commercial properties; or valuable personal property such as precious metals, gems, jewelry, artwork, collectibles and even new or slightly used and classic automobiles, watercraft, and motor homes.
Deferred Gifts* are another way you can support our efforts. These gifts might be given or arranged for now but not received until later. Some examples are new or fully paid-up life insurance policies, certain types of trust arrangements, or gifts through a person’s will by bequest.
Matching Gifts provide a possible way to double or even triple your gift to our cause and church. If you serve on the board, work for, or have retired from a company that matches charitable gifts, check with the company to see if they match gifts to causes like ours.
*All non-cash and deferred gifts must be approved by the church before acceptance.
Giving Opportunities
There are a number of special giving opportunities available to donors of qualifying gift amounts. These show what the church can do with various level gifts. With approval, they also allow for the unique opportunity to dedicate a gift in honor or memory of a loved one.
| Campaign Giving Opportunities | |||
| HVAC System | $ | 125,000 | |
| Organ Restoration | $ | 100,000 | |
| High (Back) Altar | $ | 100,000 | |
| Glass House | $ | 75,000 | |
| Communion Rail | $ | 75,000 | |
| St. John the Baptist Devotional Area | $ | 75,000 | |
| Main (Front) Altar | $ | 60,000 | |
| Outdoor Courtyard | $ | 30,000 | |
| Side Altar Stencils & Painting (2) | $ | 30,000 | each |
| New Church Marquee | $ | 30,000 | |
The gift amounts are not necessarily reflective of the actual cost of the opportunity listed. Rather, they approximate the actual cost of the opportunity and factor in its value, visibility, and prominence, as well as the needs of our campaign and gift abilities as a community.
Naming and recognition rights will be granted once payment for the opportunity is fully received. Donors of these various opportunities will have their names and the names of those they are honoring commemorated in a special way as will donors of all gifts to our campaign.
Please Join Us
Whatever your gift or the method of making it may be, please be assured that your support is both urgently needed and will be greatly appreciated. Through the prayerful, volunteer, and financial support of many, and the extraordinary support of a few, our campaign can and will be a success. Then, our past accomplishments as a church will serve as prologue to an even more promising, prosperous, and successful future.
Won’t you please join us in this exciting and essential effort to better ourselves and our ability to serve God and one another through the works of our church?