Become a Member
If you have begun worshiping with Holy Faith and feel moved in your spirit to make your membership official, we want to celebrate your decision.
Every January (usually the 2nd Sunday of January), the congregation welcomes new members. This is an occasion to be introduced by name and to receive a blessing. After worship, it is our custom to celebrate with a festive coffee hour, in joyful thanksgiving for the new gifts you bring to our community as we seek to love God and our neighbors.
If you wish to participate in the next New Member Welcome, or if you would like to know more about membership, please contact the clergy.
Membership begins with the January worship service, but it doesn’t end there. Membership means belonging – belonging to a community that worships, prays, and serves together, that encourages and learns from one another, and gives back by building up the church through the gifts God has given us.
These outward and visible signs of belonging are often summarized by the three “T”s:
Time
Members are faithful in prayer and worship. They dedicate time to attending weekly worship to be fed in word and sacrament, so that we might serve a hurting world.
Talent
Members take their place in the Body of Christ by putting their gifts, talents, skills, passions, or life experience to work by participating in one of our various ministries, building up the congregation so that we might help build the Kingdom of God.
Treasure
Members make a financial commitment – commonly referred to as an annual pledge – to support the mission of the parish. By giving through a pledge, we turn our giving into a spiritual practice that helps us make God a priority in our life.