#PledgeYourPassion

Did you know it costs over $260,000 a year to fund our programs, staff salaries, building maintenance, and outreach? That’s a lot of money—but God has a gift for using everyday people to do extraordinary things.  

This year’s stewardship theme is “A New Passion for Old South,” and we are inviting everyone to dedicate their pledge to the areas of our church budget they are most passionate about.

All parts of our budget support the whole of our work. Each of our worship services, programs, and ministries require staff leadership, communications, administrative support, a clean and heated building, and supporting infrastructure (i.e. internet, printing and copying, insurance, etc). A correlating percentage of each of those will make up a large part of each of each category. 

Ready to Pledge? Go ​#PledgeYourPassion!

Not sure what your passion is? Here are some of our favorite things...

Worship & Music

Includes percentage of the salaries and expenses for our minister, choir director, organist, office manager, nursery attendant, and janitor; worship supplies; the music ministry budget; building maintenance and snow removal; costs of telephone, internet, copier, insurance, maintenance, and utilities

Mission & Community Outreach

Includes a percentage of the salary and expenses for our minister, director of youth & children’s ministries, office manager, communications director, and janitor; Our Church's Wider Mission dues; a portion of the diaconate and outreach, justice & witness budgets; administrative materials, telephone, internet, copier, insurance, building maintenance, and utilities.

Children & Youth Programming

Includes a large percentage of the salary and expenses for our director of youth & children’s ministries; a (much smaller) percentage for the minister, office manager, communication director, and janitor; and costs of curriculum materials, art supplies, books, telephone, internet, copier, insurance, building maintenance, and utilities.

Adult Programming

Includes a percentage of the salary and expenses for our minister, office manager, communications director, and janitor; costs of curriculum materials, art supplies, books, telephone, internet, copier, insurance, building maintenance, and utilities.

Maintaining our Historic Buildings

Includes building maintenance, heating and other utilities, snow removal, custodial care, capital improvements, insurance, and groundskeeping for both the church and the Holman Parish House.

General Fund

Pledges to this category will be designated wherever there is need. 

What's next?

After you've decided which area (or areas) you are most passionate about, it's time to pledge your support!
  1. Fill out your pledge card and send it in—electronically, in the offering plate, or through the mail.
  2. Figure out how you want to send your pledged money. You can drop it in the offering plate, mail it to the church office, set up an electronic funds transfer, or set up an account through Online Giving to make payments online. 
  3. Watch your passion thrive.