Gifts, Memorials & Remembrances
How do we say "thank you" for a birth, a life, an experience or a memory?  The Church provides many such ways through symbol and substance for us to do precisely that.  For the Church, as God's agent, is the conduit for good in this world.   Therefore it can create or capture that means which best matches the wish and wisdom of the donor.

The Reformed Church of Bronxville offers several avenues of expression.  Within each of these options there is a broad flexibility which allows a full range of selection and definition.

The Endowment Fund
The Endowment Fund is unique in that it ensures the future vitality of our great Church. 

In today's complex and fast changing world, there is an element of uncertainty as one looks forward.  In a very real sense, then, the Endowment Fund might be seen as a rock ensuring stability over the long term.

Currently the Endowment Fund is divided between four separate funds:  the Property Maintenance Fund; the Christian Education Fund; the Mission and Outreach Fund; and the Youth Activities Fund.

The Fund accepts contributions of money, securities, real estate, or other assets convertible to cash and is administered by the Consistory.

Special Funds
Monetary gifts made to the Special Funds may be designated for use in one of several specialized areas of concern:

• Minister's Discretionary Fund -- for use by the Senior Minister for persons, programs or projects which are unbudgeted.
• Music Enhancement Fund -- provides for guest artists, instrumental support and choir items which otherwise would not be available.
• Outreach Memorial Fund -- focuses primarily on the full or partial support of programs for the poor, the young, the aged, the infirm as well as mission and minority interests both foreign and domestic.
• Specific Memorial Funds -- substantial gifts named for a person or family or organization, the interest from which each year is used for the support of a designated project.  For example, the tuition of a seminary student; the needs of a particular missionary; the purchase of books for the Church library; annual concerns on Christian Education; the support of a lectureship; the perpetual upkeep of all landscaping about the Church.  Such funds are set up to guarantee the intention of the donor.

Special Gifts
Most often there is a desire to specify a precise gift.  Under the direction of the Church's Memorials Committee there exists a full spectrum of possibilities which are suited to gift size.  No gift is too small or too large to secure that which bespeaks the goal of the donation.

The professional staff is at the disposal of all potential donors to discuss the vast possibilities of choice. A periodically updated list is available from the Memorials Committee.

All memorials and remembrances are permanently recorded in the parish "Book of Remembrances" which resides in the Narthex.

Those who are interested in considering a gift, memorial or remembrance are encouraged to contact the chairperson on the Memorials Committee or any of the Ministers.  Those contacts can be expedited through the Church office (914-337-6776).