Membership

If you live near New York City and are interested in attending our services, even occasionally you may request to be added to our meeting announcement mailing list. Send us email . There are no required membership dues to attend our services or be on the mailing list.

Three times a year we distribute a newsletter and our schedule for the following quarter. We have two methods of delivering our newsletters and schedules: email notice and US mail. We prefer to send you an email notice when each quarter when the new schedule is available. It contains a link to the schedule on our website which you can print for yourself and return anytime to get a new copy or check for changes. If you are on our email list, you will also get occasional updates if we have a change or special notice. If you do not have access to email or a printer or find this inconvenient we are willing to print our schedule and send it by US mail for those that live in the local area. If you send us email to join, please indicate which method of delivery you are requesting.

However, if you live too far away to attend our services and are simply interested seeing the list of our services, we ask that you do that here on our website or request to be added to our email notice list rather than asking us to mail copies to you.

Contributing Members

Expenses

There are a variety of expenses we must meet to continue our mission:

St Mary's Church - In 2002-2003 we will be meeting in St Mary's Church every week. While the rent at St Mary's is somewhat less than our rent was at St Paul's Chapel, we hope to have access to St Paul's again in the future. It's location on the campus of Columbia University gives us more visibility for students and its acoustics and organ are better for our musical programs.
Advertising - we put notices on bulletin boards on several university campuses in Manhattan and run small ads once or twice a year in campus newspapers to help ensure that students that might be interested in worshipping with us know about us.
Speaker travel expenses - we have guest speakers for one meeting each month. Most of these come from the east coast area (Boston to Washington, DC) and we must meet their train or car expenses. But we try to include speakers from other parts of the country occasionally and if we cannot arrange speakers who are in the east on other business, we must occasionally pay for their plane fare.
Printing & Mailing Expenses - we send out announcements of our services four times a year and monthly reminder cards to a large group of interested people who live in the NYC area.
Web & Message Service - we maintain this website and a dialup message service announcing the next week's topic and location.

Only a fraction of these expenses can be covered by the offerings collected at our services. The rest of our expenses must come from donations. Many of our regularly attending members contribute monthly in addition to offerings. Without such contributions we would not be able to continue this service to the students of the NYC area.

We want to invite others, even those that cannot attend our services, but who are concerned about the religious options for students of the NYC area to help continue our mission. Help us stay in St. Paul's Chapel and continue to serve the needs of these students from NYC colleges and universities by joining as a contributing member of the Forum.

Contributions

Contributions should be by check payable to: Metro New York Adventist Forum and sent to our Treasurer:

Terry L Anderson
24 Hill St
Bernardsville, NJ 07924-2707

Levels of Membership

Any contribution will be greatly appreciated but we will offer the following titled contribution levels:

Mailing List - NYC Area	free; $5 / yr suggested
Friend	$5 / yr (to be on our mailing list from outside the immediate area)
Contributing Member	$25 / yr
Sustaining Member	$50 / yr (cost of one ad, cost of one quarter's mailing)
Hosting Member	$100 / yr (rent for one morning only service, average travel expense for on east coast speaker)
Grand Host	$300 / yr (rent for one full day service)
Patron	$500 / yr (average travel expenses for speaker not from east coast)

Help us continue to provide this service to the students of the NYC colleges and universities.

Last Modified: Friday, 05-Mar-2010 15:00:47 MST