Giving to Christ Church

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Generous and sustained regular giving by the church family helps us to meet the costs of our many outreach and discipleship activities, including funding our clergy, staff team, meeting spaces, online ministry, youth and children's ministry, work with Christians Against Poverty, other outreach activities in the community, encouraging renewal in other local Church of England churches under the Bishop’s Mission Order for Truro and our gospel partnership initiatives locally and internationally. 

We would love you to become a partner in this work by contributing financially if you can afford to. 

If you could commit to regular giving, it would really help us budget for the day-to-day running of our church and for our growth plans as we seek to live out our vision to see God transform lives in Truro and beyond. 

God has shown his great love for us in giving us so much, supremely in his Son. Having received such undeserved generosity, it is our joyful response to give our lives to serving him. Giving is not limited to our finances, God wants us to be generous with our time, energy, skills, property and homes. If we have received God's abundant grace then we all have something to give generously.

Abundantly God's word tells us of the abundant nature of God's gifts to us so that we might give abundantly in response. While the Old Testament commanded a tithe (10% of income), the New Testament is far more radical: it calls us to give in a sacrificial way. Some will give far more than 10% of their income, others less. 

Thoughtfully and prayerfully Each of us should give what we have decided in our heart to give. We need to think carefully about the resources we have been given, not just give what we have spare, but give in a planned and regular way. 

Joyfully It's easy to give for the wrong reasons - to relieve our guilt, to avoid other avenues of Christian service, or to be seen to be generous by others. Instead, God loves a joyful and big-hearted response to all that he has lavished on us.  

Please use the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS).

Most people at Christ Church use this simple and secure scheme for their giving. It’s really easy to sign up. You get to choose whether to give monthly, quarterly or annually and you can even inflation-proof your donation, which helps us to plan with confidence as our own running costs increase with inflation. You can give anonymously if you prefer. 

By giving via the PGS, you improve our cashflow and save our volunteers a lot of time and effort. This is because individual donations made via the PGS are consolidated into a single, predictable, monthly payment each month and this is followed by a second, equally predictable, monthly payment of Gift Aid on your giving that the PGS claims back for us from HMRC. 

The PGS is also the safest form of giving to Christ Church because it is covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee. It is much easier for our volunteers to administer than giving by standing order. 

The PGS is open to all regular donors. If you are a UK taxpayer, Gift Aid is automatically claimed back for us, adding 25p to each pound that you generously give. But you don’t have to be a UK taxpayer to give via the PGS. It is open to all regular givers. 

It shouldn't take more than ten minutes to sign up with the PGS online. 

If you find online banking daunting - you can just as easily set up your regular giving by phoning the PGS. Its team is really helpful and they will guide you through the process. 

If phoning’s not for you, simply click on the ‘Request a giving pack’ link and we’ll send you a giving pack and form to complete and return to us. 

Remember, whichever way you choose to give, you’ll need your bank account number and sort code to hand. 

Click on this Parish Giving Scheme link to take you to St Kea’s page at parishgiving.org.uk then click ‘Give now’ and simply follow the instructions on screen.

Use your smartphone to scan this code, which is unique to St Kea and simply follow the instructions on screen. 

Call the Parish Giving Scheme on 0333 002 1271 (9am-5pm on weekdays) and its team will guide you. You'll need to give our parish name (St Kea) and our nine-digit parish code 390 639 119. 

Click on this link to request a giving pack, insert your address and bank details, sign it and post it to the address on the form. 

Just email our Parish Giving Officer in confidence using the link, or search for ‘Parish Giving Officer’ on ChurchSuite.