Join the 2025-2026 Pledge Campaign with your pledge today!

What is Pledging?

Pledging to support the ministry of our congregation is a spiritual statement about your values, your priorities, and your vision for our community and world. They help us plan for and deliver on writing our next chapter together. Pledges are financial commitments by members and friends for the operations budget of the church for July-June. Pledges cover around 88% of our annual budget and help make it possible to have this beloved community in our lives.

What Does My Financial Pledge Support?

With your pledge, we will:

  • Add paid CFE support two Sundays per month
  • Assure the long-term sustainability of a robust and comprehensive communications program, including digital marketing
  • Widen our collaboration with local community partners, additional hands-on service projects, and greater outreach
  • Deepen our community character with focused workshops on handling conflict and differences
  • Keep up with costs associated with our growth, including incremental increases in staff hours
  • Continue needed facilities improvements
  • Maintain and support our excellent Minister, Staff, and Volunteer Committees and Teams

What Amount Do I Pledge?

All of us have our own unique circumstances to consider in making our financial commitment to UUSD. Our 2025-2026 Pledge Brochure and its generosity guide are tools to help you determine what your support might be.

How Do I Pledge?

You can submit your completed pledge in several ways. Pledges can be made by individuals or joint households.

  • Complete an online form.
  • Print and complete a paper form and mail it to UUSD, marking the envelope “Attn: Treasurer.”

How Do I Contribute Toward my Pledge?

You can contribute with check or online at Donate on our website. Offering plate cash is non-identifiable and not applied to a pledge.

Checks can be personal or 3rd-party as with a retirement distribution. Make out the check to “UUSD” or “Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware” and include “Pledge” as memo. You can drop a check in the offering basket on Sundays or deliver/mail to the church with “Attention: Treasurer.” If you are contributing with a 3rd-party check from a brokerage/retirement firm, for example, make sure the check is made out to UUSD with your name in the memo line. All checks by those with a current pledge are applied to the pledge unless specified otherwise, e.g., Share the Plate.

Online contributions at Donate can be one-time or recurring. See the FAQs at the bottom of the Donate page. Be sure to select Pledge as the Fund when making an online contribution.

If you need to help with fulfilling your pledge or need to revise your pledge commitment during the year, please contact your Treasurers at treasurer@uussd.org.