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Mother's Day Blanket Sale:
May 2 and 9 For the next two weeks, the Missions and Outreach Committee is collecting donations for Church World Service blankets. You can mail a check to the church, designated for CWS, or give to CWS through our church's online giving webpage. Just $10 will purchase a warm blanket that will be given to someone fleeing their home or recovering from disaster. Honor your mother this Mother's Day by blanketing the world with love! |
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We Can Help Erase Medical Debt!
Medical debt is an economic justice issue. It causes people to cut back on necessities, lose needed medical services, and sink into a poverty trap. Together with the other 600 churches across the new Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ, our Payson Park Church can help fight this injustice. Working with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt, our Conference participated in two debt buys at the end of 2020.
The first debt purchase bought $8.4 million in debt in 65 counties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. That purchase wiped out all of the debt available in this region in the secondary debt market at the time of the buy, helping 7,175 households, with the average forgiven being $1,171.
A second purchase funneled $107,000 of the church donations into a new fund created to respond to COVID-19, and eliminated another $17.8 million in debt for 12,144 health care workers and first responders across the United States. Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan and Georgia were the top four states represented, with average debt forgiven being $1,466.
From its first buy in May, RIP’s Helping COVID Heroes Fund has already wiped out $46 million in debt for 36,662 people working on the front lines of the pandemic. The UCC is one of the first 10 organizations contributing to this fund.
RIP Medical Debt continues in efforts across the country. Click this link to learn more.
We Can Help Erase Medical Debt!
Medical debt is an economic justice issue. It causes people to cut back on necessities, lose needed medical services, and sink into a poverty trap. Together with the other 600 churches across the new Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ, our Payson Park Church can help fight this injustice. Working with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt, our Conference participated in two debt buys at the end of 2020.
The first debt purchase bought $8.4 million in debt in 65 counties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. That purchase wiped out all of the debt available in this region in the secondary debt market at the time of the buy, helping 7,175 households, with the average forgiven being $1,171.
A second purchase funneled $107,000 of the church donations into a new fund created to respond to COVID-19, and eliminated another $17.8 million in debt for 12,144 health care workers and first responders across the United States. Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan and Georgia were the top four states represented, with average debt forgiven being $1,466.
From its first buy in May, RIP’s Helping COVID Heroes Fund has already wiped out $46 million in debt for 36,662 people working on the front lines of the pandemic. The UCC is one of the first 10 organizations contributing to this fund.
RIP Medical Debt continues in efforts across the country. Click this link to learn more.
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Make a decision to support a community that makes a difference.
Make a decision to support a community that makes a difference.
Tommy McCauley is the co-Leader of our Stewardship effort this year. Click this button to read his letter!
Instead of mailing an envelope back to the church office, you may submit your 2021 Pledge online, your commitment to give to the ministry of Payson Park Church for 2021. We are Growing with God, for the Good of the World.
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Why We Give to support the ministry of Payson Park Church.
Our Congregation has SO MUCH to be THANKFUL for!
✚ In a Pandemic year,
our faithful team never stopped serving monthly home-cooked meals to
the hungry & homeless of Bristol Lodge.
We thank you leaders!
With our many faithful volunteer chefs and delivery drivers.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
We ADDED a new outreach ministry, to The Outdoor Church.
Thank you leaders for coordinating our efforts,
With our faithful sandwich makers, we assembled dozens of homemade sandwiches every
two weeks for the hungry and homeless in Cambridge.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
When it is so difficult to reach and share with others our caring church community, we added three new members!
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
While every church around us shut down their choirs, and gave up on singing together again
until the world is past the coronavirus, our choir kept singing weekly.
Online. Together. In full throated harmony.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
When school children are already overcome with too much screen time,
Our teens shared their faith in worship on Youth Sunday. Twice! Seven different teens.
Speaking about their lives, Covid and anti-racist protests, and God’s Word.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
When after the killing of George Floyd our society grappled with racism in a new way,
Our Table Talk discussion group encouraged Council to take visible action.
Council added a public statement “We are an anti-racist church” to our website,
And Table Talk continues to lead our congregation in education towards concrete actions.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
We once again held a Sunday worship of Appreciation for our First Responders.
We added in Social Workers, and frontline health care workers, to our previous mix of
Police, Fire, and EMTs. Police Chief MacIsaac and BC Social Work Prof. Ximena spoke in
worship, addressing systemic racism and praise for all First Responders, as our congregation
gave thanks to God for our Police, Fire, EMTs, Social Workers, Doctors, Nurses, and more.
No other area church held a Sunday Appreciation for our First Responders.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
In Christ’s name, we helped the hurting and the poor;
Not only through The Outdoor Church & Bristol Lodge, but also through -
Chelsea One,
common cathedral,
Cradles to Crayons,
local food pantries,
RIP Medical Debt,
. . . . and more.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
we continue to offer faithful and lively weekly Bible studies, TLC (Theology, Literature & Coffee) monthly, worship of God every Sunday, caring and outreach to our homebound and sick, regular contact with Sunday School children, creative new offerings such as Lawnchair Evening Prayer, and much more.
We are Growing with God, for the Good of the World!
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
our faithful team never stopped serving monthly home-cooked meals to
the hungry & homeless of Bristol Lodge.
We thank you leaders!
With our many faithful volunteer chefs and delivery drivers.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
We ADDED a new outreach ministry, to The Outdoor Church.
Thank you leaders for coordinating our efforts,
With our faithful sandwich makers, we assembled dozens of homemade sandwiches every
two weeks for the hungry and homeless in Cambridge.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
When it is so difficult to reach and share with others our caring church community, we added three new members!
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
While every church around us shut down their choirs, and gave up on singing together again
until the world is past the coronavirus, our choir kept singing weekly.
Online. Together. In full throated harmony.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
When school children are already overcome with too much screen time,
Our teens shared their faith in worship on Youth Sunday. Twice! Seven different teens.
Speaking about their lives, Covid and anti-racist protests, and God’s Word.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
When after the killing of George Floyd our society grappled with racism in a new way,
Our Table Talk discussion group encouraged Council to take visible action.
Council added a public statement “We are an anti-racist church” to our website,
And Table Talk continues to lead our congregation in education towards concrete actions.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
We once again held a Sunday worship of Appreciation for our First Responders.
We added in Social Workers, and frontline health care workers, to our previous mix of
Police, Fire, and EMTs. Police Chief MacIsaac and BC Social Work Prof. Ximena spoke in
worship, addressing systemic racism and praise for all First Responders, as our congregation
gave thanks to God for our Police, Fire, EMTs, Social Workers, Doctors, Nurses, and more.
No other area church held a Sunday Appreciation for our First Responders.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
In Christ’s name, we helped the hurting and the poor;
Not only through The Outdoor Church & Bristol Lodge, but also through -
Chelsea One,
common cathedral,
Cradles to Crayons,
local food pantries,
RIP Medical Debt,
. . . . and more.
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
✚ In a Pandemic year,
we continue to offer faithful and lively weekly Bible studies, TLC (Theology, Literature & Coffee) monthly, worship of God every Sunday, caring and outreach to our homebound and sick, regular contact with Sunday School children, creative new offerings such as Lawnchair Evening Prayer, and much more.
We are Growing with God, for the Good of the World!
Despite the Pandemic, we are holding STEADY and we are THRIVING.
Why We Give.
Because. . . . We Are Invited by God to Give.
Because. . . . We Are Faithfully Serving the Community.
Because. . . . We Are Growing with God, for the Good of the World.
Because. . . . We Are Faithfully Serving the Community.
Because. . . . We Are Growing with God, for the Good of the World.
Support your Church in this Time of Need.
Our doors are closed to groups but a passionate team of staff, ministers, musicians, and congregational leaders continue to work behind the scenes to care for our beloved community; this means continued outreach to youth, to seniors, to the most vulnerable among us, and to the hungry and unhoused in our wider community. Please help us with a either a one time donation, or a decision to give regularly, a pledge.
Our Finance Committee offers you three ways to donate:
Our doors are closed to groups but a passionate team of staff, ministers, musicians, and congregational leaders continue to work behind the scenes to care for our beloved community; this means continued outreach to youth, to seniors, to the most vulnerable among us, and to the hungry and unhoused in our wider community. Please help us with a either a one time donation, or a decision to give regularly, a pledge.
Our Finance Committee offers you three ways to donate:
- DESKTOP USERS: Please click the link at the top of this page, or right here: Online Giving Please Click Here.
- MOBILE USERS: Download the App 'Give Plus' and search for Payson Park Church.
- OR mail a check in an envelope through the US Post Office.
Payson Park Church
United Church of Christ
617-484-1542
office@paysonpark.org
365 Belmont Street, Belmont
Serving Waltham, Belmont, Watertown, and beyond.
United Church of Christ
617-484-1542
office@paysonpark.org
365 Belmont Street, Belmont
Serving Waltham, Belmont, Watertown, and beyond.