Giving

Cooks for Christmas Dinner for Homeless

 

Here we offer some opportunities for charitable giving. Contact church for details.

 

  • Local Church Budget

  • Deacons Fund

  • United Church of Christ Special Missions Offering (Offerings can be accepted at any time.)

    • For Disaster Relief Consider: One Great Hour of Sharing
      • Channels resources for international programs in health, education and agricultural development, emergency relief, refugee ministries, and both international and domestic disaster response, administered by Wider Church Ministries, Global Sharing of Resources.This offering is received on the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
    • Strengthen The Church
      • Re-imagines and builds the future of the UCC. Shared at the conference and national levels, STC largely supports youth ministries and full-time leaders for new churches in parts of the country where the UCC does not have a strong presence. Its also provides support for existing church’s new initiatives.This offering is received on Pentecost Sunday
    • Neighbors in Need
      • Supports ministries of justice and compassion throughout the United States, including the Council for American Indian Ministries (CAIM), justice and advocacy, and direct service projects supported by Justice and Local Church Ministries.This offering is received on First Sunday of October as part of World Communion Sunday
    • The Christmas Fund
      • The Christmas Fund for the Veterans of the Cross and the Emergency Fund is a Special Mission Offering that congregations have been supporting for over 100 years. The offering is administered through the United Church Board for Ministerial Assistance, the charitable arm of the Pension Boards. Funds provide direct financial support to those who serve the church and are facing financial difficulties. Active and retired clergy, lay employees, and their surviving spouses may be eligible for the Supplementation of Small Annuities, Supplementation of Health Premiums, Emergency Grants, and/or Christmas “Thank You” Gift Checks.. This offering is received on the Sunday before Christmas.

Congregational Church of Austin Endowment Fund

The Endowment Fund, which began in 2014, strengthens our church’s ministry and presence in the world, now and in the future. We gratefully acknowledge these contributions to the CCA Endowment Fund by, in memory of, or in honor of: 

Endowment Fund Contributors, Remembered or Honored
Gordon and Alta Bennett Jesse and Lolita Binford Taffy and Herb Bodman
Matt Blackstock Jean Castle Robin Chapman and Tom VandeStadt
Isabelle Cole Maxine Collings Paul Deisler
Louise Froehlich Olean and Andy Garrett Jordan Geer
Olean and Andy Garrett Mabel Lee Hinson Chuck Jackson
Larry Jensen Florence and George Jordan Yoshikuni and Setsuko Kanedo
John McNeely Minerva Miles Bert and Mary Margaret Mille
Nodie Murphy Elizabeth, Sarah, and Margaret Oakes Julia Pantermuehl
Hudson and Dorothy Phillips Doyal and Tommie Pinkard Betsy and Rollin Russell
Marie Scheel Mary Elizabeth Scott Smith Vee, Norma, and Vanessa Tucker
Ben White