Stewardship 2025

Thank you for participating in our 2025 Stewardship Campaign!

The gifts of your time and your talents make what we do as a church possible, and the gifts of your financial resources support our ongoing work and open the doors for new opportunities along the way.

2025 Pledge Need:

$2.15 million

Three Ways to Pledge

Online Pledge via Realm

In Realm, our online database, you can add your pledge. You can even set up recurring gifts, too!

Need help with Realm? Email upcch@upcch.org.

Online Pledge via Google Form

Don’t have a Realm account? Click here to pledge online via our Google Form.

Written Pledge Card

You can mail in your pledge card (PO Box 509, Chapel Hill, NC 27514) or bring it with you to worship or the church office.

Chancel Choir singing in the sanctuary

Why Pledge?

Stewardship is an invitation to prayerfully give of your time, talent, and treasure in response to God’s grace. Pledging a gift for 2025 both provides you an opportunity to intentionally consider how you may give and helps us plan for our budget in the coming year.

Stewardship Moments in Worship

Hear some of our church members share why UPC matters to them!

From the Co-Pastors

Dear Saints of UPC, 

Praying at a hospital bedside this week, a church member asked me for Bob Johnson’s number.  Bob is his deacon, so the ask made sense, but I was struck by how he described him. “Bob is always there,” he said. If you know Bob Johnson, you know what this man meant. Most Sundays Bob is the one with a smiling face offering everyone a bulletin and a warm welcome into our church home. He’s always there. 

UPC is a church that seeks to be there: 

for our neighbors in need through our local and global outreach; 
for young people as they explore deep questions and make big decisions; 
for every one of us who seeks to remember that the truest truth of who we are is that we belong to God—in life and in death. 

For generations, UPC has been there—a steady presence—in this community proclaiming and living out God’s love in Christ. This is why our Fall sermon series is called Grounded.  For even when the world around us is topsy-turvy and much of our culture is bent on division, UPC equips us to stay rooted in the gospel. 

When we are grounded in the grace of God, we are called to respond with our gratitude—gratitude that takes the form of stewardship.

Our 2025 pledge goal is $2.15 million, a 6% increase from 2024. This increase accounts for inflation and modest building/programmatic increases, while also maintaining our commitment to staff and outreach. 

Pledges are critical to our ministry, and all pledges are appreciated and enable us to be there for our church and our community.

Thank you for prayerfully considering what pledge you can make to our ministry and mission.
And, thank you for being a church that is always there for this community. 

-Revs. Jarrett and Meg Peery McLaughlin

Previous Stewardship Campaigns

Click here to access our archive of previous stewardship campaigns.