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Give Joy

We can do More Together

Support our Mission to Welcome, Worship, Learn, & Serve

We thank you for choosing to give the gift of joy. Your gift of joy will help us continue to come together to achieve our mission. Whether its building wheelchairs or expanding our facilities, every dollar helps us spread joy.

Listed below are options to consider when making your gift.

Direct Contributions

Donations can be made by cash, check, or credit card. Checks can also be mailed to our office at 18300 Upper Bay Rd
Nassau Bay (Houston), TX 77058. Please make your check out to St. Thomas Church.

For your convenience, you can give online via our paypal button below.

Pledges

Please consider joining others in making a recurring gift to help keep St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church here for years to come. Our office can set up a system so that your pledge will be charged to credit card or automatically deducted from your checking or savings account.

Please contact our office at 281-333-2384 or contact us online for more information

Stocks or Securities

Transferring stocks and mutual funds offer additional tax savings. You avoid capital gains taxes and receive a tax deduction. Please call our office for more information 281-333-2384.

Altar Flowers

Consider giving the gift of Altar Flowers. Read more here.

End of Year Giving

Thank you to all you who have paid and continue to faithfully pay your pledges. Help us stay on budget by paying your annual pledge before the year ends.

Tax deductible contributions must be claimed in the year they are delivered to St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church. IRS rules recognize a contribution on the day of delivery.
  • MAIL: postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2018.
  • BY HAND: received by the church office no later than Dec. 31, 2018. Any gifts dropped off after the office is closed will be treated as 2019 gifts.
  • ONLINE: submit via paypal using our button on www.sttaec.org/give-joy/ any time, but no later than December Dec. 31, 2018.
You must have records to prove you made a tax deductible contribution to St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church.
  • For individual cash, check or online contributions, St. Thomas will provide a contribution statement to you listing each contribution. You will need this statement to file your Federal Income Tax Return. Statements will be sent on or before January 31, 2019.

The address for mailing, shipping, or hand-delivery of your check:

St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church

18300 Upper Bay Rd

Nassau Bay (Houston), TX 77058

Please contact our office for more information 281-333-2384 or contact us online today.

Amazon Smile

Support St Thomas while shopping on Amazon
Amazon Smile donates .5% (yes that’s .005…but it can add up!) of your eligible purchases to a charity of your choice. St Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church is one of the charities that you can set your account to accumulate donations for.

Click here to change your charity to St Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church.

Manual Setup

When setting the charity that you want the donations to go to, you will need to use the Amazon Smile app.

  1. Sign in to smile.amazon.com on your desktop or mobile phone browser (not the mobile Amazon app) using your normal amazon id and password.
  2. If it is the first time you’re logging in on the Amazon Smile website, it should ask you to identify the charity you’d like the money to go to…in this case it is St Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church
  3. If it does not ask you: from your desktop on smile.amazon.com, go to Your Account from the navigation at the top of any page, and then select the option to Change your Charity. Or, from your mobile browser, select Change your Charity from the options at the bottom of the page.
  4. Select St Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church.

That’s it, no need to do it every time, just set it once.

From then on, when shopping on the pc, make sure you’re going to smile.amazon.com to shop and checkout. (Sometimes I forget and start shopping in regular Amazon, but remember to switch to the correct Amazon Smile url and all of the items are still in my cart.)

If you shop on your cell phone/tablet, you can change the default Amazon app to Amazon Smile by:

Open the normal Amazon app and find ’Settings’ in the main menu (☰). Tap on “see all programs” and then ‘AmazonSmile’ and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone. It’s a one time switch. The Amazon Smile app is identical to the regular Amazon app, same inventory and prices. There are some things that are not eligible for the charitable donation, but very few that I’ve seen.

There’s nothing else that needs to be done. Amazon Smile will distribute all accumulated donations to STTAEC quarterly. And, if after a year, $5 hasn’t been raised for STTAEC, Amazon donates $5 themselves.