Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Worshiping God, living in community, reaching out to the world.

Tag: Stewardship

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    Church of the Redeemer
    PO Box 82677
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    Tell Out My Soul

    Pledge to Church of the Redeemer

    You may pledge your support to Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at any time during the year. However, the ingathering of pledges for the 2026 calendar year is Sunday, October 19, 2025.

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    Acknowledging that we tell out my soul, I/we promise the following for ministry at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.

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    With gratitude we accept the many gifts of our members as volunteers, servers, ambassadors, and friends in and outside our community. Thank you for all you do.
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    Thank you for making a financial pledge of stewardship to Church of the Redeemer.

    Proportional giving

    When you make a proportional gift:

    • You set aside your first fruits, dedicating a portion of your wealth, works, and wisdom to God. This is a sacred act.
    • Your financial gift rises and falls with your income. It is right-sized to your income.

    Giving back to God is a life-time journey. Setting a percentage allows you to step up your giving over time.

    Pledge as a percentage of annual income

    Annual Income2.5% of Income5.0% of Income7.5% of Income10.0% of Income12.5% of Income15.0% of Income
    $15,000 $375 $750 $1,125 $1,500 $1,875 $2,250
    $30,000 $750 $1,500 $2,250 $3,000 $3,750 $4,500
    $45,000 $1,125 $2,250 $3,375 $4,500 $5,625 $6,750
    $60,000 $1,500 $3,000 $4,500 $6,000 $7,500 $9,000
    $75,000 $1,875 $3,750 $5,625 $7,500 $9,375 $11,250
    $90,000 $2,250 $4,500 $6,750 $9,000 $11,250 $13,500
    $105,000 $2,625 $5,250 $7,875 $10,500 $13,125 $15,750
    $120,000 $3,000 $6,000 $9,000 $12,000 $15,000 $18,000
    $135,000 $3,375 $6,750 $10,125 $13,500 $16,875 $20,250
    $150,000 $3,750 $7,500 $11,250 $15,000 $18,750 $22,500
    Determine your annual pledge as a percentage of your annual income by finding your approximate annual income in the left column, then find find your annual pledge amount on that row. Your annual percentage is whatever column it is in.

    Pledge as a percentage of monthly income

    Monthly Income2.5% of Income5.0% of Income7.5% of Income10.0% of Income12.5% of Income15.0% of Income
    $1,250 $31 $63 $94 $125 $156 $188
    $2,500 $63 $125 $188 $250 $313 $375
    $3,750 $94 $188 $281 $375 $469 $563
    $5,000 $125 $250 $375 $500 $625 $750
    $6,250 $156 $313 $469 $625 $781 $938
    $7,500 $188 $375 $563 $750 $938 $1,125
    $8,750 $219 $438 $656 $875 $1,094 $1,313
    $10,000 $250 $500 $750 $1,000 $1,250 $1,500
    $11,250 $281 $563 $844 $1,125 $1,406 $1,688
    $12,500 $313 $625 $938 $1,250 $1,563 $1,875
    Determine your monthly pledge as a percentage of your monthly income by finding your approximate monthly income in the left column, then find find your monthly pledge amount on that row. Your monthly percentage is whatever column it is in.

    Pledge campaign graphics and materials come from The Episcopal Network for Stewardship. TENS retains all intellectual property rights for this material.

    The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, reaching out to the world.

    Church of the Redeemer

    Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

    Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

    The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

  • Stewardship Reflection: The Trees that Hold up the Roof

    Stewardship Reflection: The Trees that Hold up the Roof

    This week’s reflection comes from Fr. Jed Fox.

    This fall, we took a trip through the Oregon and California redwoods. As I started to look at my relationship with the church, I began to realize that the church is very similar to those redwoods, and my relationship with the church affects much more than just the church itself.

    Trees take in water and sunlight to make the tree grow. The impact to the tree’s surrounding environment is huge. Just a few are: Oxygen for us to breathe, a place for plants to flourish beneath their branches, a place for critters to live amongst their branches, and even support to other trees against strong winds. There is more plant and animal material affected by the tree than the material that makes up the tree itself.

    The church takes in us, our pledges, our time, and our talents to make the church grow. The impact to the church’s surrounding environment is huge. Just a few impacts are: A place to meet for many groups all throughout the week. Support to the many ministries listed in our weekly bulletins. Support to other churches through the Diocese, as well as us receiving support from the Diocese. There are more people affected by our Church than the size of the Church’s congregation itself.

    Until I thought about this, I didn’t think about how many people our family’s stewardship affected. It’s like the water and sunlight to the tree. It turns our pledged money into ministry for hundreds of people. Looking strictly at a budget, we see salary, heat, lights, water, etc. But those elements are just the trunk, branches and leaves of the tree which support all of the flora and fauna around it, just as pledges to the Church of the Redeemer support all of the ministries around it.

    Why, even our church itself is made of huge trees. They go all the way from the foundation to the roof. Our family’s stewardship, our pledging and volunteering provide more than just support for these trees. It provides support for all of the people affected by the trees holding our building up.

    Tree holding up roof at Redeemer

    Church of the Redeemer

    Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

    Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

    The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

  • Grow into greater stewardship

    Grow into greater stewardship

    We are currently smack-dab in the middle of two of my least favorite autumnal observances. One, the church calls a holy day, but the other is assuredly not. I am talking about Columbus Day Indigenous People’s Day and Thanksgiving Day.

    The mythos surrounding both of these commemorations, that the noble Europeans came and discovered and brought light, civilization to a few benighted savages, just as God willed. These narratives, that until very recently were commonly accepted in the church and in society, have always troubled me—not because of the picture that they paint, but because not only are the pictures that they paint false but because the false narrative then gives us a false sense of self, and incorrect interpretation that things are fine and have always been…no genocide to see here. The truth is far harder. Disease, displacement, and outright war were the means used by Columbus and Plymouth Colony members (not to mention many, many other colonizing occupations from Europe) to carve out for themselves a place in the history books at the expense of millions of innocent lives.

    The church itself is not immune to this truth. Many of the church buildings, Episcopal or otherwise, on this continent were placed on lands that were swindled, swarmed over, and outright usurped from the from the people who had been in relationship with that particular patch of creation for thousands of years, deep relationship, the kind of mutual care and interdependence that is the mark of true stewardship, a standard which the church has failed to upkeep.

    We cannot change the facts of how we came to be stewards of the land—none of us has a time machine (and even if we did, Ive seen enough sci-fi shows to know that we’d probably just make things worse). We can, though, acknowledge the fact that we are inheritors of a stewardship that is not our own. We are not the sole owners—in fact, not owners at all, of this place that we refer to as Redeemer. We meet, Sunday by Sunday, on land by the Coast Salish nations have been in relationship with for Generations. We join in caring for this land with them, late comers to this relationship. We are now responsible that kinship relationship  that they have held sacred for generations upon generations.

    It may seem like a little thing, acknowledging the truth of where we are of who was here before, but its a start. And here’s another thing. For a few years now, we have been praying, during the prayers for those in authority, for Marie, Cecile, and Brian. Marie Zackuse is the Chairwoman of the Tulalip Nations, Cecile Hansen is the chairwoman of the Duwamish Nation, and Brian Cladoosby is chairman of the Swinomish Tribe and had been the President of the National Congress of American Indians. We pray for them, and the Tribal nations that they guide forward into the future. This is a beginning, an opening, another opportunity to grow into greater stewardship, a deep and equal relationship among kin, with the gifts—land, and especially people—God has given us.

    —Fr. Jed Fox, Rector

    Marie Zackuse of the Tulalip Tribes (2017) Cecile Hansen of the Duwamish (2011) Brian Cladoosby of the Swinomish Tribe (2012)

    Church of the Redeemer

    Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

    Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

    The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

     

  • Stewardship Reflection: Maren and Peter Donley

    Stewardship Reflection: Maren and Peter Donley

    This week’s reflection comes from Maren and Peter Donley

    When Peter was just a toddler, we were at church (as usual) and it was time for the offering.  At our congregation, ushers passed offering plates through the rows of chairs beginning in the front of the congregation and then brought the offering to the altar before communion.  I don’t remember how, exactly, but the plates passed Peter before he realized it was time to make his offering.

    When he saw the plates behind us, he turned to us with a horrified expression, and big tears welled up out of the corners of his eyes.  He started to cry (loudly!) and, before I could comfort him effectively, wailed his distress at not having the opportunity to share.  He yelled, “But Mommy, I didn’t have a chance to GIVE!!!!!”

    Peter’s consternation was real.

    Several adults around us chuckled.  I’m guessing that their laughter was a slightly uncomfortable recognition of the difference between the way Peter approached offering, and their own approach.

    Chris and I managed to calm Peter only when we explained that there would be many, many opportunities to give.

    Peter’s enthusiastic desire to give, and his thrill at the idea that there would be “lots and lots” of opportunities to do so, called the adults around us (myself included) to account—for the reluctance to give, and for an inexplicable lack of joy in this part of the service.

    In his moment of distress, Peter reminded the whole congregation that giving is a privilege actively to be sought.  It’s something that we get to do with the resources we’ve been given, and it’s fundamentally joyful.

    I sometimes require a reminder.

    Stewardship: and of thine own have we given thee

    Church of the Redeemer

    Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

    Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

    The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

  • Stewardship Reflection: Steve Daniel

    Stewardship Reflection: Steve Daniel

    This week’s stewardship reflection is by Steve Daniel.

    Thirty years ago I volunteered for the Kenmore Family Shelter Christmas shopping trip for the first time. I was assigned to drive some residents of the shelter on the shopping excursion. I will admit that I had a preconceived notion about the residents of the shelter who were taking advantage of transitional housing. While driving the residents of the shelter we chatted and I became more familiar with them and their stories.

    I realized that these were people just like me who had experienced some difficulties that had not affected me—job losses, being in the “wrong place at the wrong time,” and such. I came away thinking “but for the grace of God there to I.” All people are the same, but affected by the environment differently. The differences could be in how the economy affects you, where you live, what ethnicity you belong to, family factors; the list is endless.  My experience during the event changed me personally, professionally, and spiritually.

    I came to realize that being fortunate, lucky, or blessed means to me that what we have we got from God. We that get more from God need to share what we have. Stewardship means (to me) being stewards of the world and stewards of the church—give to both what we can.

    Hopelink Kenmore Place Christmas shopping trip in 2017

    Church of the Redeemer

    Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

    Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

    The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

  • Vestry report on stewardship

    Vestry report on stewardship

    My friends,

    First, thank you to everyone who has pledged. We appreciate your generosity and commitment to the Church of the Redeemer. We have received a total of $208,000 in pledges. However, our projected need is $287,000. The 2015 expenses are about $60,000 more than last year.

    Our expenses have increased because in 2014 we had a fulltime priest for only half a year. The office staff also left last year. So we did not have the full cost of these expenses. This year

    • We are paying the salary and benefits for our full time rector this year.
    • We paid for the moving expenses.
    • We plan on hiring an administrative assistant to replace Tim who left last year.
    • We have done some small upgrades to the building including the rector’s office, the nursery and maintenance for our sacred space

    At this time our pledges do not meet our expenses. If you have not yet pledged we urge you to do so. If you have already pledged, please consider increasing your pledge.

    Grace and Peace,

    The Rector and Wardens of the Church of the Redeemer

    Chart showing the current results of the stewardship campaign showing the amount pledged compared to the amount needed for 2015.

Spring forward this Sunday, March 8, 2026. Daylight saving time starts. 

Stop by The Hangar at Kenmore Town Square anytime between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm for Ashes to Go on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

3rd Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 8, 2026. Services at 8:00 am (no music) and 10:30 (music). Christian education for children and adults at 9:15 am. Spring forward one hour for the start of Daylight Saving Time.

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