Giving
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” - Acts 20:35
CUMC Offers Easy Online Giving
We want to thank everyone who donates. Your good gifts will be used to help our church continue doing its wonderful work as we answer the call to nourish by helping others and spreading God’s love to a world that so badly needs to know that God loves all people.
Covenant United Church of Christ is a 501(c)(3) organization so any gift you make is 100% tax-deductible.
Our Online Giving Option
If you would like to make a one-time or reoccurring gift by using the Online Giving option, use the form below.
“The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.”
Blessed by your Giving
As part of our faith family, your generous gift will continue to build this web of caring and community for all. With thankful hearts and as blessed people, please reflecting on your pledge this year to our beautiful church. We appreciate your support and love of our spiritual family and its call to spread a message of love, joy, peace, and hope for all.
The button below will allow you to make your 2024 pledge online.
Qualified Charitable Distributions from IRAs
The “tax Cuts and Jobs Act” passed in December 2017 makes donations from IRAs directly to charity an even more powerful way to give money. Why? Because the Act nearly doubled everyone’s standard deduction beginning in 2018. The “standard deduction” is the amount all taxpayers can deduct from their taxable income instead of itemizing deductions. The percent of taxpayers itemizing deductions dropped from 30% in 2017 to approximately 10% beginning in 2018. What this means for many seniors who are 70 ½ or older is that the only way to reduce their tax bill is to make charitable donations directly from their IRA. For more information, click the button below. If you would like to download a IRA click on Form.
Endowment Fund
“One generation shall extol your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts.” Psalm 145:4
Help us build a Legacy of Faith for future generations. This Fund is the means through which gifts will become a living memorial and a perpetual source of financial support to benefit the church and its programs. It is the vehicle for receiving and managing gifts that looks to the future, and it enhances the ability of the church to promote its ministries and care for its property. By making a gift to the CUMC Endowment Fund in the Online Giving Form above, you are able to praise God’s work to future generations…
Mail-in Giving
Contributions can also be mailed to:
Covenant United Methodist Church
4410 Duval Road
Austin, TX 78727
How We Give Back
These are some of the ways that we bless others with the gifts God has blessed us with: Food Pantry, Crop Walk, Preschool Ministry, Table of Grace, and Other Ministries.
As Gracious Givers, We Express The Three G’s
Grateful - CUMC is a congregation of Grateful people. Grateful for our experience of the love of God and transformative living, and for the resources God has entrusted to us for serving God and humanity.
Generous - Our Gratitude leads to Generosity; a desire to bless others because we have been blessed. Generous: with our time, with the financial resources God has entrusted to us, with our energy and skills, with our love and caring.
Giving - Our Generosity shows itself in Giving. What does one person give to another? They give of themselves, of the most precious they have, they give of their life - (Erich Fromm rephrased)
These three G's lead us into a deeper, more inspiring relationship with God, the Great Spirit, the maker and sustainer of heaven and earth.
These three G's lead us into prayerful mission to bring God's Good News of love, freedom and peace to all people.
Give the three G's a try and discover that, like love, blessings are something that only multiply when you give them away.
Thank You for Your Continued Support
We appreciate your help as we at CUMC do our best to answer the call to Nourish Others.