| Planned
Giving Overview |
Over two hundred years ago our beloved Chapel rang with the sound of the Georgetown Academy students, singing a Memorial Service for George Washington. Now it resounds with the voices of today’s children, YAC’s, and adults giving praise in song and prayer. Extended families and friends come to celebrate baptisms, weddings and to gather to mourn loved ones. |
The Parish Center is the workplace of our mission, promoting close collaboration between clergy and laity, ever more effective liturgy, and a close linkage between faith and action. In addition the Parish Center provides us with what we need to support every parishioner’s life at Holy Trinity, no matter what his or her involvements. |
If one’s only connection is Sunday worship, the center is where those liturgies that nourish our spiritual life are planned. The Center is where music is rehearsed and homilies written. |
The Parish Center is home to numerous committee meetings. It is where clothes, food, toys, Easter baskets and school supplies are collected and distributed. |
For over two hundred years, the men and women of Holy Trinity have used their stewardship gifts of time, talent and treasure to found, support and sustain our beautiful church community. |
Today you can
be a part of our history. In addition to annual
giving, the office of Development was established to provide
the Parish with a systematic approach to financial stewardship
with a special emphasis on the cultivation of deferred gifts. Inspired
by an initiative of the late Kitty Nolan, Kitty planned her
generous bequest long before her death. Today her
gift continues to encourage us to attract current and future
gifts for Endowment, Capital Replacement, New Capital Projects,
and Debt Reduction programs.
|
| Endowment, A Vision for the Future |
Two centuries have passed since the Jesuit Community at Georgetown laid out a plan for the establishment of Holy Trinity Parish. Now the Parish has a plan to lay down a financial foundation that will carry forward the Jesuit tradition another two centuries and beyond. Endowment ensures that programs, ministries, and outreach continue to have the financial support necessary for sustaining and expanding our pastoral, spiritual and educational mission long into the future. |
- Our Parish library could be endowed, providing up-to-date reading and resource materials for parish-wide use.
- Music ministry, service and social justice programs, retreat programs, all could be supported by endowment.
- Schoolteachers’ salaries and the Office of the principal could be endowed as well as endowed scholarship assistance.
Funds for Capital Improvements: called as we are to be good stewards of what we have received, we need to be responsible caretakers of the Parish’s buildings and programs.
- New sidewalks and curbs are needed
- Landscaping can be improved
- Theater sound, lighting, curtain and seating need to be replaced
New Capital Projects: large outlays for significant additional and new construction |
Debt Reduction: elimination of existing debt burden and related debt service expenses.
- Eliminate the debt
- Eliminate the interest payment on debt
|
Every aspect of parish life needs our buildings . . . church, chapel, parish center, school and theater, rectory and convent house. And we need everyone’s heart and help to maintain what we have been given and build anew for those who come after us. |
|
The Remarkable Story of
Leave a Legacy |
|
| The Bridge Builder |
An old man, going a lone highway,
came at evening, cold and gray,
to a chasm, vast and deep and wide,
through which was flowing a sullen tide. |
The old man crossed in the twilight dim -
the sullen stream held no fears for him;
but he turned when he reached the other side,
and built a bridge to span the tide. |
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength in building here
your journey will end with the ending day;
you never again must pass this way.
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
why build you the bridge at the eventide?” |
The builder tilted his old gray head.
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followeth after me today
a youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
to that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.” |
| -- Will Allen Dromgoole
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
