Giving

The 2012 Every Member Canvass Read or listen to the Rector's sermon, "Put Me to the Test"

pledge online or print pledge card     and mail it

Thanks to everyone who Made a "tile." Read more here.

Reminder about year-end contributions to Saint Thomas Church:  All donations, including cash gifts, must be postmarked by December 31, or received in the Finance Office by noon on December 30, to qualify as a deduction for 2011 tax purposes. Likewise, gifts of stock must be received in the Church‟s investment account by December 30, 2011. For stock transfer instructions or other questions, please contact Ann Hall Kaplan. If you have not yet made a pledge to the 2012 Every Member Canvass, please consider doing so now. Many thanks to all who have given so generously to Saint Thomas Church.

Saint Thomas Needs Your Financial Support

Maintaining an educationally outstanding choir school and a vibrant church in the middle of Manhattan is an expensive proposition. The church and choir school both continue to make deeply felt cuts to their budgets, indeed cuts upon cuts for the last several years, because pledges and plate donations, even in a recordbreaking year, still cover only 15% of the annual operating budget. We are forced to take the remainder from our invested funds, which are being drawn down at an unsustainable rate.

Please give generously. The gifts you make to your church in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ are like no other gifts you make. Imagine your life without this parish. Imagine New York City without it.

Whether you are a longtime parishioner, a newcomer, a friend of the parish, someone who comes in to sit and pray in the middle of a weekday afternoon, someone who worships via the webcasts in the south of France or in South Africa, we need your support regardless of who you are and where you live.

On this website, you can read about several opportunities to give:

• The 2012 Every Member Canvass, which contributes to the general operating expenses of the church and choir school annually.
  
  

• The Capital Campaign for the replacement of the great organ and the restoration of the stained glass windows, projects which ensure that as we keep our doors open 365 days a year to the world, we can shine forth the glory of God through the Anglican tradition and our unique choral heritage.
  
  

• Planned Giving opportunities, which allow you to remember Saint Thomas in your will and in other forms of long-term planning.
  
  

• And of course we welcome those who can give their time through various outreach initiatives, ranging from the Soup Kitchen to the knitting of prayer shawls.

Thank you.