The Special Offerings are the single, largest way Presbyterians join together to make a lasting impact in the world.
Let’s be the Church, together.

New for 2026!  The Presbyterian Church (USA) has adopted a program of three special offerings:

• World Communion Offering — Offering season Sept. 6–Oct. 4, 2026
  • Causes supported: racial justice, gender justice, peacemaking, global
    witness, ecumenical and interfaith relations
  • As part of this Offering, a grant program is being created that allows
    any council of the PC(USA) — session, presbytery or synod regardless of
    participation in the World Communion Offering — to apply for funds to
    support their own efforts to do ministry around these cause areas.

• Christmas Joy Offering — Offering season Nov. 29–Dec. 19, 2026
  • Causes supported: children-at-risk, youth and young adults, leadership
    development for people of color, Presbyterian-related schools and
    colleges equipping communities of color, servants of the Church in need
    through the Assistance Program of the Board of Pensions. 

• One Great Hour of Sharing — Offering season Feb. 10–March 28,
  2027
  • Causes supported: disaster, hunger, poverty, climate change,
    immigration, migration and refugees

Your Mission and Justice Committee also invites you to visit the Narthex to see a series of photos and the story sent with them.

They tell of one small moment in our church’s extended history of mission work in Haiti. You’ll see how our initials, FPCCS, are literally written inside a heart that sits at the center of a Choukoun we helped fund in Gwo-Jan, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.

In Haitian culture, this Choukoun is intended as a place where people can come together, in peace, to discuss, teach, learn, and make community decisions. In a place beset by natural disasters, gang violence and intimidation, and racked by poverty, where work is scarce and a full-day’s pay only equates to about 1 U.S. dollar, this little Choukoun sits like a small island of peace.

Perhaps a more hopeful metaphor would be to compare it to a seed that if tended, can grow like the mustard seed in one of Christ’s parables.

During the time of each special offering, we will provide details on how each year’s donations will be used.

Donations can be made using special envelopes are in the pews, or you can simply add a note on the memo line on your check or online donation through the church’s website. We hope you will give generously, as you always do.  And donations are always accepted for our mission work Thank You.