Gifts for the Gospel: Pledges
Friends, we’re encouraging everyone to be part of our pledge process for 2025.
What is this pledge?
A pledge is a commitment to do something. In this case, we’re committing to offerings.
God calls us to offer him our best in thanks and praise for all he has done. We do that together at Peace through offerings. We are providing this pledge process so that we can all consider our gifts and offerings.
We’re offered a two sided card you can fill out here or on site for this pledge. Download pledge card here
How do we complete these pledges?
Christians have generally followed the practice of proportional giving. What that means is we look at our income and we give a portion of it to the Lord. In the Old Testament era, this amount was often 10% and occasionally exceeded 10%. Jesus never gave a portion. The apostle Paul simply said, “Give in proportion to your income”.
We practice proportional giving instead of needs based giving or random giving. Our offerings are our firstfruits.
The provided card is set up to lead participants through proportional giving. The back of the card lists the percentages (1-12%) for certain local incomes. Using this table, you can select a pledge amount that works for you. Or write in your own!
Turn in the card in the basket on site so they can be offered to the Lord on March 2nd.
When is this pledge process?
We’ve started it now. Pledges should be turned in by March 2nd. We’ll present them as an offering to the Lord that day.
What will we do with these pledges?
These pledges will be used to compare with budgeted giving, but council and the pastor will NOT see individual amounts.
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