2024 pledge for the 2025 parish operating budget.
To submit your pledge for 2025 online, click here.
To download a printable pledge form, click here.
To arrange for direct debit from your bank accounts, click here and select General Operating Fund
For the pledge booklet, click image above
“Pledging to the parish is categorically different from giving to charities. Both involve the donation of money, or time, or talent, but what such giving signifies is totally different.
“When we give to charities of one sort or another we are giving in support of some good work they do. When we pledge and give to our parish we do have in mind the good works the parish does (formation, fellowships, outreach). All these are good and important. But prior to all of those good works our parish holds open the place and time and historic liturgy for our encounter with God. This encounter with God touches us at a depth that addresses our whole selves, and includes the whole of everything, all our living, all our dying, our loved ones and our enemies: the cosmos. Pledging is not about supporting a good work, it is about saying Yes to the God of Jesus Christ who comes to us in the Holy Eucharist, towards which all of parish life is ordered and from which all of parish life flows.”
—The Rev. Robert Fruehwirth, Rector | The Sunday Forum - October 13, 2024
Online giving is the most direct way to support St. Matthew’s.
Your contribution directly supports our day to day ministry. We are stewards of an amazingly beautiful campus, a rich and varied community, and of a life-changing Christian faith, the Gospel and Sacraments, offered here for 200 years in the Episcopal and Anglican tradition.
Financial gifts made online may support the ongoing operations of the church, memorials, or capital fund campaigns.
Note: The button above takes you to a secure electronic payment system designed for faith-based organizations, schools, and other non-profits.
Financial Giving Programs
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St. Matthew’s mounts an annual campaign in the fall of the year to ask parishioners for funds to support the following year’s operational budget. The budget is composed of two parts; core expenses (people, program, and property expenses required to “keep the lights on”) and and discretionary expenses (all of the extras, like outreach and increased program support).
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Legacy Giving is support that ensures St. Matthew’s continuation into the future. These non-operational gifts provide the foundation for future generations to worship and celebrate God at St. Matthew’s.
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While pledges have traditionally been paid by check or cash, paying your pledge by transferring non-cash assets such as publicly traded stocks or bonds can be attractive because of the favorable income tax treatment they may bring.
Specific Gifting
Designated Gifts
Designated gifts are non-budgeted funds given for a specific purpose. At St. Matthew’s, gifts may be designated for such things as future building and development (3rd Century), altar flowers, memorials, Faith and Arts, the churchyard, the choir or music program, FeST, the youth program, stained glass windows maintenance, and other areas.
Rector’s Discretionary Fund
On the first Sunday of each month, those funds collected in the offering plates which are not designated as pledged funds are added to the Rector’s Discretionary Fund. The Rector and Associate Rector draw from these funds to respond to specific requests for assistance from parishioners and others in the community.