WHY WE GIVE

Bruce & Meg Herman

Meg and I both grew up in non-religious Episcopal families. I know, that’s a strange sentence. But it’s true. Church was just part of your social training, and a church was a beautiful building with stained glass and an important organ. Despite our upbringing we were married on the beach in this photo, and we lived a kind of hippie life until we entered our 30’s, finally returning to church to raise our children, hoping to find some sense of meaning and belonging. That was forty years ago. But unlike the Episcopal Church of our childhood, Christ Church is not just a beautiful building with the right social club––it’s the Body of Christ––and that’s what matters to us. We give out of gratitude for our life together as a body of believers in a wounded world. We have the sense that God’s people at the church are truly trying to find a way to make a difference—not just for each other but by becoming agents of healing in a time of trouble. Our monthly financial giving is symbolic of that gratitude—and we believe that supporting the staff and the buildings and the programs at CCHW is a first step toward that reality of this church becoming a place of welcome and hope.


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Giving Options

Sharing the resources God has entrusted us with is an important part of our ministry and mission.  Thank you for your gift!


Three ways to give:

  1. Click the button below to make a one-time or recurring gift via our secure online donations system.*
  2. Set up electronic payments directly through your bank.
  3. Give cash or by check.

Online Giving  

Online giving is built into our existing church database, Realm, so all your contact info, up-to-the-minute giving history, and pledge management is in one spot.


Set Up Your Annual Pledge

  1. Log in to our church database here.*
  2. Click “Giving” in the left-hand menu, then the blue “+ Give” button at the top.
  3. Enter your pledge details (e.g. amount, frequency, start/end dates, credit/debit card).

*If you haven’t already set up your Realm account: 

  • Update your contact info and upload a photo - this helps put faces with names!
  • Click the lock icon and change your privacy setting to “Everyone in Our Church” so other parishioners can look up your contact info like a regular church directory. (Pledge/payment information is not viewable.)


If you have any questions about making a gift to Christ Church, please contact the church office at 978-468-4461 or [email protected]