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Giving |
2006 Canvass - Open Minds, Big Hearts
Neighborhood Church is your spiritual home. And like every household, it costs money to support not only the structure but those efforts and activities we know to be important to sustain us as a community.
Neighborhood Church programs, facilities, and operations are funded by your annual financial contributions as members and friends. While no one will tell you how much to pledge, and no one will be turned away, an annual commitment of financial support is requested of everyone. We ask only that you make your pledge responsible and significant.
Neighborhood Heritage Society
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NHS members have provided for Neighborhood Church in their estate plan or intend to do so. Currently, the organization has 54 individual members. They have decided to or intend to make a bequest to the church on a restricted or unrestricted basis or have entered into a lifetime gift such as a Charitable Gift Annuity or plan to do so. The Planned Giving Committee was formed two years ago at the request of the Board to develop a future stream of revenues for the church through the estate plans of members. We developed a Gift Acceptance Policy, an Endowment Policy, a brochure, pledge card, and flyers on how to make a bequest or a lifetime planned gift. For more information, please contact committee chair Tom Petersmeyer. |
Patio Sales Committee
| The Patio Sales Committee staffs a table inside the Cole House after services each Sunday, with a variety of items for purchase. Aprons, Equal Exchange Fair Trade coffee, and scrip for dozens of businesses that give generously to Neighborhood Church. Fill out the brightly colored order sheet available at the table, make out a check for the amount of scrip you are purchasing, and your scrip will be waiting for you on the next Sunday. |
Electronic Shopping
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By using some of the electronic donation sites that have become available, you are also able to give to Neighborhood Church through your online shopping purchases.Register at iGive.com and eScrip.com, two of many sites available. (For example: Vons, Pavilions, Wild Oats, Bristol Farms, each participate in eScrip!) Click here for the current order form for Neighborhood Scrip participants. If you discover more, please send the information to the church office, so that we can make sure to include "Neighborhood Church" among the recipients of their generosity. Ralphs shoppers can register their Ralphs' card number at the scrip table. |
Senior Minister's Discretionary Fund
| Members and friends of the church periodically experience financial emergencies; community causes we support sometimes have urgent projects needing timely funding not available from other sources; special church projects that have not been budgeted are made possible by this fund. The fund has been used this year in all of these ways, and is in need of replenishment. Your contributions are invited. Checks payable to Neighborhood Church and marked on the memo line: "Senior Minister's Discretionary Fund" may be sent to the church office or dropped in the plate on Sunday. |
Tapes
| Volunteers sell audio tapes of our Sunday services on the patio just minutes after they are recorded, so it is possible to share our worship with shut-ins, relatives and friends on the same day. |