Please click above for many giving options:
● HOPE Welcome Circle – help resettle Ukrainian refugees locally
● AMIGOS Welcome Circle – help resettle Venezuelan / South American refugees locally
●UCC Disaster Response (Earthquake Relief in Turkiye and Syria)
● Missions and Outreach
● Current Expense - for ongoing ministry of our congregation.
● Building Improvement Fund
● Memorial - (In memory of loved ones who have passed)
● Deacons (Emergency help for needy)
● HOPE Welcome Circle – help resettle Ukrainian refugees locally
● AMIGOS Welcome Circle – help resettle Venezuelan / South American refugees locally
●UCC Disaster Response (Earthquake Relief in Turkiye and Syria)
● Missions and Outreach
● Current Expense - for ongoing ministry of our congregation.
● Building Improvement Fund
● Memorial - (In memory of loved ones who have passed)
● Deacons (Emergency help for needy)
- 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.
Please click this button:
- 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.
- WE NEED YOUR 2021 PLEDGE - PLEASE SUBMIT HERE!
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- 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. - SPACER
- Support your Church in this Time of Need.
Even throughout the pandemic, 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.
Our Mission & Outreach Committee will match your donations up to $1,000.
Chelsea is in crisis. You may have heard that Chelsea has the highest rate of infection in Massachusetts, on par with New York City. And Chelsea is home to many vulnerable people: newly-arrived immigrants, undocumented families, non-English speakers, and low-income workers and families with children. The economic, social, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were immediate and dire for the many Chelsea individuals and families who live one paycheck away from serious financial hardship. COVID-19 has magnified the challenges this community has long been struggling with: unstable and unaffordable housing, food insecurity, low wages, lack of English proficiency, and high rates of uninsured.
The One Chelsea Fund will provide financial relief to Chelsea individuals and families to meet their basic needs. You have already been so generous, and donated over $1,000! Let’s do more in God's name!
Click the ONLINE GIVING button above and designate the amount of your donation. Thank you for your generosity.
Chelsea is in crisis. You may have heard that Chelsea has the highest rate of infection in Massachusetts, on par with New York City. And Chelsea is home to many vulnerable people: newly-arrived immigrants, undocumented families, non-English speakers, and low-income workers and families with children. The economic, social, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were immediate and dire for the many Chelsea individuals and families who live one paycheck away from serious financial hardship. COVID-19 has magnified the challenges this community has long been struggling with: unstable and unaffordable housing, food insecurity, low wages, lack of English proficiency, and high rates of uninsured.
The One Chelsea Fund will provide financial relief to Chelsea individuals and families to meet their basic needs. You have already been so generous, and donated over $1,000! Let’s do more in God's name!
Click the ONLINE GIVING button above and designate the amount of your donation. Thank you for your generosity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chaplains on the Way
Our special Easter offering this year will be given to one of our long-time partner organizations, Chaplains on the Way. Chaplains on the Way offers a non-judgmental ministry of presence on the streets of Waltham, at soup kitchens, and in shelters. They also work alongside the homeless of Waltham for systemic change on the issues of homelessness, mental health, and substance use.
Our special Easter offering this year will be given to one of our long-time partner organizations, Chaplains on the Way. Chaplains on the Way offers a non-judgmental ministry of presence on the streets of Waltham, at soup kitchens, and in shelters. They also work alongside the homeless of Waltham for systemic change on the issues of homelessness, mental health, and substance use.
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!
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!
Recent Words of Hope
First Responder Appreciation
- Sept 27, 2020
This year we honored many local first responders - police, fire, EMTs, as well as social workers, nurses, doctors, and more. Our two speakers were Belmont Police Chief James MacIsaac, and Prof. Ximena Soto, Boston College, Assistant Dir of Latinx Leadership Initiative, School of Social Work, and also a Belmont resident. We thank God for the gift of our First Responders.
- Sept 27, 2020
This year we honored many local first responders - police, fire, EMTs, as well as social workers, nurses, doctors, and more. Our two speakers were Belmont Police Chief James MacIsaac, and Prof. Ximena Soto, Boston College, Assistant Dir of Latinx Leadership Initiative, School of Social Work, and also a Belmont resident. We thank God for the gift of our First Responders.
Rev. Jim Antal - Oct 11, 2020
Jim Antal is a denominational leader, climate activist, author and public theologian. He serves as Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ.
Antal’s book, “CLIMATE CHURCH, CLIMATE WORLD”, was featured in the Chicago Tribune on Earth Day 2018, and in Christian Century Magazine on Earth Day 2019. Antal received the 2019 Steward of Creation award from the National Religious Coalition for Creation Care.
Jim Antal is a denominational leader, climate activist, author and public theologian. He serves as Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ.
Antal’s book, “CLIMATE CHURCH, CLIMATE WORLD”, was featured in the Chicago Tribune on Earth Day 2018, and in Christian Century Magazine on Earth Day 2019. Antal received the 2019 Steward of Creation award from the National Religious Coalition for Creation Care.
Rev. Amanda Grant Rose - Oct 18
Amanda Grant Rose is the Executive Director of common cathedral, an outdoor congregation, housed and un-housed, sharing God’s love through community, pastoral care, creative expression, and worship on Boston Common. As a social worker, Amanda has provided support to at-risk children in foster care, has developed and implemented comprehensive social services through an urban, faith-based hunger program, and has served as a mental health specialist.
Amanda Grant Rose is the Executive Director of common cathedral, an outdoor congregation, housed and un-housed, sharing God’s love through community, pastoral care, creative expression, and worship on Boston Common. As a social worker, Amanda has provided support to at-risk children in foster care, has developed and implemented comprehensive social services through an urban, faith-based hunger program, and has served as a mental health specialist.
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.