1.0First Congregational-Christian Churchhttps://www.ngucc.orgadminhttps://www.ngucc.org/author/admin/Friends and members of the Church can now make donations electronically through PayPal.  The following yellow donate link will take you to the electronic donations page at <strong>PayPal</strong>. The church pays 1.99% per transaction plus a $0.49 processing fee, so please consider adding the fee to your donation. <form action="https://www.paypal.com/donate" method="post" target="_top"><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="ARB2MK675DFJW"> <input style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;" title="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" alt="Donate with PayPal button" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image"> <img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0"></form><strong>OR, if you prefer to make your gifts to the ministries of First Congregational Church by mail, you may send your check to:</strong> <address>Treasurer<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3817" src="https://www.ngucc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/charitable-giving-300x97.jpg" alt="charitable giving" width="300" height="97"></address><address>First Congregational-Christian Church</address><address>P.O. Box 114</address><address>New Gloucester, ME  04260</address>You may designate your gift to one of the following active funds by putting its name in the memo line: <ul> <li><strong><span style="color: #008000;">General Fund</span></strong></li> <li><strong><span style="color: #008000;">New Gloucester Food Pantry</span></strong></li> <li><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Emergency Fuel Assistance Fund</strong></span> (helps New Gloucester neighbors in need of heating fuel)</li> <li><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Memorial Fund</span></strong>  (helps the church with purchases for which our annual budget is unable to provide support: e.g. steeple lighting, a projector, pew cushions, library furnishings, vestry acoustics correction...)</li> <li><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Endowment Fund 1804 </span></strong>(an invested endowment which provides an income stream for the General Fund).</li> </ul> If you would like to set up an endowment to fund a more specific focus within the church's ministries, please call or use the contact tab above to ask the Treasurer or Pastor to contact you. We have policies in place for the establishment and management of such endowments. <h1>For whatever way you have helped, we thank you!</h1> <p style="text-align: center;">May God's blessing bring these gifts to life.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">May those they touch find new hope of healing,</p> <p style="text-align: center;">fresh ways of coping, confidence in God's goodness, and trust in God's love.</p> <a href="https://www.networkforgood.org/donate/process/expressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=22-2551240" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> </a>rich