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Pledge Day: So, what is this all about?

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The spirit of generosity is foundational to our vision of community where love is abundant and joy is in the heart.


You are accepted for who you are.  Not for being your best self, nor your less than perfect self, but simply for being yourself.  It is you who makes community happen, through the connections you create with others like you and still more who are not like you at all.  These are relationships deep in spirit and true in the love of neighbor.

Your Pledge Day Committee.
From the left: Diane Mandile, Lee Reid, Lee Bona,
Seth Popinchalk, Steve Knox, Ellen Foley,
Ken Mandile, Rick Silva and Rev. Sarah Stewart.
You are generous in your acceptance of the many who are different than you, because you are bound together in the same aspirations:  caring for those within the church community and for the many within the greater community in which our church resides;  seeking justice for those denied equal opportunity;  providing shelter for families who are homeless, and refuge for the marginalized;  teaching strategies of non-violent conflict resolution to our youth;  giving your talents to organizations dedicated to making a better world.  It is your generosity that makes these aspirations realized.

The spirit of generosity is foundational to the experience of First Unitarian, to our vision of community where love is abundant and joy is in the heart.  It is out of that vision that your Stewardship Committee worked through the summer to plan for our first ever Pledge Day, filled with generous contributions from every quarter, a day filled with fun, fellowship and the joy of giving freely to each other.

Come for breakfast, brunch or dinner.  Drop by to recycle your obsolete electronics, pack a Hygiene Kit for a third world child, or give a First U dignitary a bath in the Dunking Booth.  Our children will play Quidditch, and our older youth will present a multi-generational (non) Talent Show.   Relax with a chair message and then have your photo taken dressed in a wild costume.

And make your 2016 pledge at your entrance to this Pledge Day celebration.  Be generous in your giving, for it enables the many ministries of our church to do the work of bringing our vision of abundant love and caring community to the many who long for that experience.

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