As we embody our Story of Generosity, we’re invited to be part of something greater than ourselves.
Faithful Generosity
We believe that generous giving is a significant and meaningful part of our worship life. When we combine our gifts, they multiply to bring hope to our community and beyond.
Annual Stewardship
Stewardship is a celebration of God’s blessings—serving God through our time, talents, and treasures. We give our financial resources through our annual stewardship commitment. Giving is an act of faith, an expression of gratefulness, and a spiritual discipline. Your financial commitment ensures that children and youth are nurtured, adults grow in faith through discipleship and relationships with one another, older adults are upheld and cared for, God’s name is praised through song and worship, the poor are given food, and the homeless receive shelter. All of that—and so much more—is made possible through our giving to the church.
Why pledge?
Practically speaking, a pledge is an estimate of your giving for the coming year, which funds everything we do as a faith community: from paying the salaries of our clergy and staff to supporting our outreach ministries, our pastoral care, our worship, our education programs, our music, and our facilities.
Spiritually speaking, a pledge is your response to the abundant blessings in your life. Pledging helps to transform your giving into a spiritual practice. With a pledge, you make a commitment to God and to your church. When you fulfill a pledge, it becomes a regular spiritual practice like attending worship, praying, studying, and serving the broader community.
How much should I pledge?
There is no right amount to pledge. The decision of how much to pledge should be personal and thoughtful. Each pledge is important and meaningful regardless of the amount.
Some may consider tithing, the practice of sharing ten percent of your income, the standard for Christian giving. That would be wonderful, but we recognize that not everyone is able to do that. The amount of your pledge is a personal decision that should reflect your life situation. We hope that as you consider your pledge, you reflect on the abundance of gifts God has entrusted to your care and give thanks for those gifts by giving back to the church.
How do I fulfill my pledge?
How do I set up a scheduled gift?
Great question! These instructions are here to help.
Member Stories
Our story of stewardship began in the early years of our marriage when we participated in a Bible Study called Crown Ministries. The study focused on the alignment of faith and finances, and we learned that the Bible mentions money and possessions over 2000 times. Turns out, it’s one of the most referenced subjects in the Bible!
One story that spoke to us was Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6. Jesus emphasizes prayerfully giving without expecting praise and the dangers of materialism and false idols. Verse 21 continues to resonate with us today: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
The more we get involved with church, whether it be through Outreach, the Facilities Committee, Congregational Care, Youth Ministry, Presbyterian Women, or anything else, the more we see that each of these areas greatly need our treasures (money, time, and talents). These areas are where our hearts feel most deeply for our church and community. Our church is a place we love and has loved us when we needed it most.
Faithful giving allows our church to do more in the community than we could ever do as individuals. Stewardship is not transactional. Faithful and prayerful giving draws us closer to God and helps us understand that God has a hand in all things through us, the body of Christ.
Julie & Jimmy Grahl
Joined MPPC in 2006
Julie is Co-Chair of the 2026 Annual Giving Campaign
We are incredibly grateful that God led us to Myers Park Pres as a newly married couple. From the beginning, this community offered spiritual depth, vibrant worship, and opportunities to grow in faith.
While we recognized the importance of generous stewardship, we still struggled with a scarcity mindset and worried that we wouldn’t have enough. We wanted to trust God, but that’s much easier said than done!
In 2 Corinthians 9:6–7, Paul reminds us: “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously… for God loves a cheerful giver.” MPPC has helped us live into that truth.
As we have taken this to heart, we have come to truly trust that God will provide. This shift has released us from fear and control and brought us real joy in giving.
Looking back, we can now see we never needed to worry. God is always faithful and our church helped us believe it. As you think about stewardship for the upcoming year, we hope you find joy in giving back and seeing the power of your generosity working in and through MPPC.
Megan & Justin Reese
Joined MPPC in 2009
Megan is Co-Chair of the 2026 Annual Giving Campaign
How much is a Sunday morning worth to me?” I remember asking myself that once, but I now realize that church is so much more than what happens on Sunday. Our church community serves and grows throughout the week. Our collective giving funds everything that the church does from personnel to facilities to Outreach Ministries.
As I consider my personal budget, I include Myers Park Pres because I want our church to continue to minister to our congregation and greater community for the church’s next 100 years. My gift alone won’t make all this happen, but when combined with others, God provides.
Beverly Darlington
Joined MPPC in 1984
Sailing and stewardship came together for us on the Chesapeake Bay when Michelle Thomas-Bush taught us about our church budget, pledging, dedicated offering, and generosity. We are excited to be a part of the pledging season this year. Every little bit helps!
Taylor Brown, Margaret Cowden, Sadie Griffin,
MPPC High School Youth
As members of MPPC, we experience many blessings that deepen our connection to this community and to God, and we give as an expression of our gratitude. By making a pledge a regular practice each year during stewardship season, we reinforce the importance of our faith community in our lives.
This year, as we have witnessed our oldest child complete the 3rd Grade Bible Milestone and the impactful VBS Mission Kids program, we feel a profound sense of humility and appreciation for all those who contribute to teaching and nurturing the faith of our children. This embodies the essence of community, reminding us that it truly takes a village.
We are also thankful for the strength of our church’s collective giving directed toward our Outreach Partners. Together, our contributions amplify our ability to make a significant impact on remarkable nonprofits throughout Charlotte.
Gail & Tim Fischer
Joined MPPC in 2001 & 2013
During our premarital counseling, John Magnuson encouraged us to invest in a community that life would inevitably render necessary. We took that advice to heart and invested, both in time and resources, in MPPC.
In the last two years, the MPPC community has shared the grief of a miscarriage and the joy of the birth of our son. Our investment paid dividends during our family’s deepest sorrow and greatest joy. In both seasons, friends of the church reached out, held us, fed us, and created thin spaces for our vulnerability.
The community we invested in continues to return our gifts to us tenfold in fellowship, learning opportunities, and faith in action.
Mackenzie & William Duncan
Joined MPPC in 2022
Ways to Give to MPPC
Cultivate Capital Campaign
Every so often, our church embarks on a capital campaign. The Cultivate Capital Campaign is about nurturing a new generation of disciples to grow a deep, abiding faith in Jesus Christ. It’s about sowing seeds of hope that all might experience the abundance of God’s beloved community. It is about much more than new classrooms or heating and air conditioning (although those are important too) –it is about building on our foundation.
This capital campaign is an exercise in sacrificial giving; a stretch gift beyond our regular tithes and offerings to cultivate our faith and harvest a better future for our ministry in Charlotte and around the world. It’s an opportunity to consider how you can commit to living out God’s love in life changing ways. Learn more about the Cultivate Capital Campaign and how you can join us as we sow faith, root hope, and reap love. Link to capital campaign page
Cultivate
Faith • Hope • Love
Endowment
The endowment fund is a permanent source of capital that is used to support the ministries of MPPC by enriching and deepening our programs with an eye to the future.