You Have Many Ways to Become Involved!

Throughout the year, St. Joseph offers various requests to support our outreach programs, facilities and administrative operations and programs.  Please be generous in your financial, spiritual and participation giving - see below on ways that you can give. We are a community of great support, let us continue to make a difference.

Each Fall, parishioners receive a mailing that provides an overview of St. Joseph's mission, the annual Stewardship Report and highlights from the year.  Included in the packet is a letter from the pastor asking each of us to be thankful, reflect and be generous in our yearly commitment of prayer, participation and financial giving to St. Joseph Catholic Community. See our annual  Stewardship Report.

Parishioners are asked to complete the:
1) Census and Annual Generosity Pledge,
2) Interest Inquiry, and
3) Financial Giving Form(s) from the mailing packet or by submitting the associated online forms on this page. 

Please contact us if you would like to learn more. We thank you for your continued and growing support!
 
A Simple Philosophy ... 

We love our homes, we love our family, thus we take care to ensure we are providing for both of them.

Our church is no different.  We love our church and the community that it is made up of.  The church provides for us through weekly Mass, internal and external programs, and communications.  The church is there when we need a place to be consoled, to pray, to learn, to connect, and to celebrate.

With the gifts that God has bestowed upon us and as valuable members of the church, we are called to provide and give back as we would with our own families.  Stewardship:
 

• Through Prayer for those in need or show our appreciation.
• Through Participation in group activities, events and/or volunteering that builds friendships and the community that we see each week.  Complete an Interest Inquiry to assist you in finding the right program for you! 
• Through Generosity from you that is planned and prioritized for the church, to ensure the church family, programs and facilities are sustained well into the future. Support us in providing assistance to our partner organizations like such as PRISM and the other programs that we have budgeted for this year. 

Planned
Growing in generosity means being intentional about our prayer, participation and giving. Planning our giving means that we intentionally set aside 1) time for prayer and going to church, 2) time to join a small group to connect with members, and 3) money from our budget to give away. An efficient way to plan our giving is to give electronically.

Priority
Making giving a priority means giving it first place in our lives and our budgets. Growing in generosity requires 1) fully committing to a group and welcoming the interactions with others, and 2) that we don’t give financial leftovers or what might be in our pocket/purse that day. We give our “first fruits” back to God by planning and prioritizing.

Percentage
In planning our gifts, we are to purposefully identify a percentage to contribute to the church, keeping in mind the biblical standard of the tithe or giving a percentage back to God. 

Progressive
Our goal over time is to increase the percentage of our income that we contribute to assist others.  As God blesses us financially we should recognize that we have been blessed and that we are called to give back as part of God's calling..

Documentation will be provided to those who have contributed $250 or more to St. Joseph’s during the year. If you have given less than $250 and you itemize deductions, please call the Parish office to request a copy of your applicable tax year statement.

NOTE:  Monetary and stock contributions qualify for charitable gift deductions on your income tax. The IRS no longer accepts your canceled checks on gifts of $250 or more as proof of contribution, however, a statement is acceptable, so please keep your statements with your tax records. Under IRS regulations, a donation must have been received in the church or postmarked by December 31 of any given year in order to be considered a donation for that year.