A pledge can be adjusted throughout the year if your circumstances change. We suggest that you pledge responsibly, based on your best estimate of the year's income. A pledge can be increased if your circumstances change.

Loose funds collected each week do help to support the ongoing life of the parish. However, pledges are very important because they enable us to plan responsibly and to establish a parish operating budget for the coming year.

Returning your pledge card is simply a promise to pay. Once you've made your pledge, you can fulfill it in as many payments as you wish throughout the year. The stewardship office offers monthly or weekly pledge envelope booklets designed to help you with your payments.

Pledges are gratefully received throughout the year.

Trinity accepts cash (when included in a pledge envelope), checks, MasterCard, or Visa. If you use a credit card, consider adding an additional three percent to your pledge to cover bank processing costs.

You may also make a pledge payment of stock or other securities. In most cases, such a pledge payment may be considered a charitable deduction to avoid capital gains on the appreciation of the stock. Please contact Brenda Rufo at 617-536-0944 to learn how to make a gift of securities.

Corporate matching gifts are welcome. Giving through the Trinity Boston Foundation makes it possible for companies that are unable to give to churches to help support Trinity. If you have questions about matching gifts, please contact Brenda Rufo, 617-536-0944.

Proportional giving is based on the premise that the first fruits are given back to God in grateful response to what God has given us. It refers to a conscious effort to determine an appropriate level of giving. We ask each parishioner to consider making an annual pledge in proportion to income. It is the teaching of the Episcopal Church and the Biblical norm to give 10 percent of one's income. For more information on proportional giving, click here.

We believe strongly that our standard of giving should reflect our standard of living. We ask each parishioner to consider making a pledge that is both responsible and significant based on his or her financial situation.

Annual pledges are just one part of the practice of generosity and stewardship that undergirds our parish life. An annual pledge supports Trinity's annual budget. Planned giving is a gift or series of gifts that can help secure the church's ministries beyond our individual lifetimes. Special gifts fund additional parish priorities such as building renovation, fine arts preservation, and program and endowment support.

Our Stewardship Prayer

Gracious and generous God, everything we have and all that we are comes from you, and you call us to be faithful stewards of our time, talent and treasure.

Help us ground our daily lives in thankfulness for all your gifts and mindfulness of how these gifts shape our material and spiritual well-being, our parish, community and world.

Help us return to you for your work a generous proportion of all your blessings to us, and grant us the courage to give according to your teachings with the Holy Spirit as our guide. 

Help us take the next step together to discern and grow into a fuller understanding of what it means to be good and faithful stewards of our time, talent and treasure.

We ask this in the Name of Jesus, our Companion on the Way.  Amen.

What ministries does the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts support?

• College chaplaincy work at MIT, BU, BC, Northeastern, Framingham State, and Harvard
• The new Relational Evangelism ministry geared toward young adults, led by Arrington Chambliss
• Camp and youth ministries
• MICAH students who spend a year in the diocese exploring their call to formation
• Hispanic ministries in Salem, Lawrence, Chelsea, and Hyde Park
• A Chinese ministry
• The B-Safe program, attended throughout the summer by more than 450 elementary and middle schoolers in addition to 92 teen staff members, and also supported by partner churches across the diocese who provide lunches and field trips
• The Jubilee Committee, which provides funding for 7,500 AIDS orphans, education for 500 students in Uganda, and home health care, training, and kits for families in Tanzania
• Pastoral ministry provided by the bishops
• An urban resident program which provides salary and benefits to urban residents serving area churches
• Funding advocacy work directed toward affordable housing in the state, immigration matters, and the issue of casino gambling

Annual pledges support everything we do and are at Trinity Church. Our yearly budget is driven by the generosity of our parishioners through annual pledges. These pledges support all the operating costs of our ministry programs as well as our building and staff operations, and expenses such as heating, outreach grants, worship leaflets, and nursery caregivers.