27 Pleasant Street, Concord, New Hampshire, (603)224-2521
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SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC 27 Pleasant Street, Concord, New Hampshire, (603)224-2521 |
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Contribute FundsSouth Church depends on the generosity of its members and neighbors to meet the expense of a downtown ministry, including our ministries to community, the hungry and homeless, as well as our Sunday ministries. All donations to South Church's operations and missions receive a tax receipt at year's end.Each year, members of the congregation are asked to complete a pledge card, an estimate of giving, during our stewardship campaign. The pledged funds provides the basis of our annual budget. Watch for news of our stewardship campaign in the fall, usually September-October. But if you missed the campaign and still would like to pledge your support, we accept pledges throughout the church year. Just contact Mae by email or at the Church office to include your support. But stewardship is only one opportunity to support our ministries! While we need and encourage annual support of our programs through the stewardship campaign, we also understand that folks have specific interests they would like to support through designated donations and memorial gifts. We segregate and apply those funds strictly according to your wishes. We do encourage you to consider the broader reach that a general, undesignated, gift provides. Here are eight ways you can give: 1. Automatic electronic payment If you have automatic electronic payments from your bank account to pay for insurance or your mortgage, then you understand the automatic payment principle. It means regular and automatic monthly contributions throughout the year. This contribution method allows us to plan our budgets more accurately, because the automatic donations guarantee us a steady income stream. If you'd like to arrange an automatic electronic payment, you should: decide the amount of your monthly offering fill in a pledge card letting us know the amount of the payment and the day of the month you expect your bank to pay it for you set up South Congregational Church as a payee on your bank web site using their "Add payee" link 2. Credit Card (Visa, American Express, MasterCard) Complete a Pledge Card indicating which credit card you wish to use. Include your card number and expiration date, the dollar amount you want charged to your credit card and when you wish to have it debited to your account. 3. Postdated Checks Supply postdated cheques, made payable to “South Congregational Church, UCC”. We will hold your cheques in the church office and deposit them on the cheque date. Note: for the above three methods of giving you will receive a year's supply of Offering Cards which you may, if you wish, place in the offering plate each Sunday, indicating you give electronically or via postdated cheques. 4. Offering Envelopes - Check or Cash Offering Ask us for an offering envelope number and a year's supply of offering envelopes in which to put your check or cash offering. If you are visiting or do not have or want a supply of these envelopes please use the envelope located in the church pews. Fill in the front portion and place on the offering plate. 5. Gifts of publicly traded securities (stocks, bonds, shares, mutual funds) Deliver your certificates to the church office signed over to “South Congregational Church, UCC”, along with a letter stating you are donating them to South Congregational Church. Please advise us where you want these funds designated. We will send these securities to our broker and issue you a tax receipt for the closing price of the security for the day on which our broker receives it. 6. Planned Giving You can secure our ministry for future generations and save taxes with gifts of stock, life insurance, annuities, trusts and bequests. All it takes is a word to your estate planner to include a gift to “South Congregational Church, UCC” in your will or trust. The church’s ministries benefits, and your estate receives the tax benefit of the donation. In addition to bequests in your will, the IRS provides tax advantages to living trust arrangements in the form of a qualifying Charitable Remainder Trust. Under this type of arangement, property or money is placed into a particlular kinf of trust. You and your designated beneficiaries continue to use the property and/or receive income from it while living, and South Church gets the benefit of the trust upon your death. You avoid any capital gains tax on the donated assets, and also get an income tax deduction for the fair market value of the remainder interest that the trust earned. In addition, the asset is removed from the estate, reducing subsequent estate taxes. Charitable Remainder Trusts can be either a charitable remainder annuity trust (which pays a fixed dollar amount annually), or a charitable remainder unitrust (which pays a fixed percentage of the trust's value annually). In years past, the generosity of members just like you in these ways helped grow the endowment that has sustained the church's ministries through the leaner years. If you don't have an estate planner, speak to one of the ministers, who can introduce you to one of our members who practices this kind of law work. 7. In Memoriam Gifts This is a truly meaningful way to acknowledge that you remember someone close to you, and to express your sympathy and respect to surviving family members and friends. We will notify the family of your donation. 8. Commemoration of a special occasion A gift to South Congregational Church is a caring and significant way to honor a friend, relative or colleague is to recognize a special occasion in their life with a gift of faithful stewardship. |
