Ahavah Gardens Sustaining Circle

Ahavah Gardens has been built through community.

Through the people who gather here, serve here, teach here, pray here, learn here, share their gifts, and continue showing up for one another. As our community grows, so does the work required to sustain the spaces, programs, ministry, and opportunities that allow Ahavah Gardens to continue flourishing.

The Ahavah Gardens Sustaining Circle is our monthly giving community, an opportunity for those who feel called and are financially able to help create a more dependable foundation for the mission we are growing together.

By choosing a recurring monthly contribution, Sustaining Circle members provide something incredibly valuable: stability.

Instead of relying solely on occasional donations, predictable monthly support helps Ahavah Gardens plan ahead, care for our community, invest in meaningful programs, and continue building for the future.

Whether your contribution is $11, $22, $44, $88, $108, $222, or another amount that feels meaningful to you, every recurring gift becomes part of the collective support that helps tend the Garden.

This is not about how much you give. It is about choosing to help sustain something you believe in.

Earth. Seed. Soul.

The Sustaining Circle is rooted in the three principles that guide Ahavah Gardens.

EARTH

Tending the place.

Earth represents the foundation that allows Ahavah Gardens to exist.

Your contribution may help support the sacred and community spaces where we gather, along with the practical and operational needs that make our ministry possible. This can include maintaining our spaces, covering administrative and operational expenses, supporting the resources needed for gatherings and programming, and helping create a stable foundation for the work we do.

When we tend the Earth, we care for the foundation beneath everything else.

SEED

Planting what comes next.

Seed represents growth, possibility, and the future we are creating together.

Monthly contributions can help support education, ministry, community programs, outreach, scholarships, teachers, facilitators, educational resources, and the development of new offerings within Ahavah Gardens.

Your support helps us plant seeds that may continue growing long after they are first sown.

SOUL

Nurturing the people.

Soul represents the heart of why we are here.

Your contribution can help support spiritual practice, ceremony, connection, integration, education, healing, service, and opportunities for people to gather and deepen their relationship with themselves, one another, the Earth, and the sacred.

It can also help Ahavah Gardens work toward greater community access through scholarships or reduced-cost opportunities when possible.

When you join the Sustaining Circle, you help tend the Earth, plant the Seed, and nourish the Soul of Ahavah Gardens.

Where Does My Contribution Go?

Sustaining Circle contributions help support the ongoing work and future growth of Ahavah Gardens.

Depending on the needs of the ministry, monthly giving may help us:

• Maintain and care for our sacred and community spaces

• Support ministers, teachers, facilitators, and programming

• Provide spiritual education, integration, and community resources

• Create gatherings, events, and outreach opportunities

• Offer scholarships or reduced-cost access when possible

• Develop educational materials and new resources

• Support the administrative and operational work that keeps the church functioning

• Develop new programs, offerings, and ministries

• Build greater financial stability and reserves

• Prepare for the continued growth and future of Ahavah Gardens

When signing up, members may also have the opportunity to direct their contribution toward the area of the Garden that speaks most deeply to them:

Where Needed Most
For the greatest flexibility to support the areas currently needing care.

Earth — Sacred Space & Operations
Helping sustain the physical and operational foundation of Ahavah Gardens.

Seed — Education, Growth & Outreach
Helping support learning, new programs, outreach, and the continued growth of our ministry.

Soul — Community Access & Ministry
Helping nurture spiritual connection, community programs, ministry, and access for those who may otherwise be unable to participate.

No matter where your gift is directed, it becomes part of the greater ecosystem that helps Ahavah Gardens continue to grow.

How the Sustaining Circle Works

Becoming a Sustaining Circle member is simple.

Choose a monthly contribution that feels comfortable and meaningful for you:

$11 • $22 • $44 • $88 • $108 • $222 • Other

These amounts are suggestions, not membership tiers.

Someone contributing $11 per month is just as much a Sustaining Circle member as someone contributing $222 or more.

We intentionally do not connect financial contribution with spiritual status, access, or belonging.

There are no Bronze, Silver, or Gold levels here.

There is simply:

An Ahavah Gardens Sustaining Circle Member.

Your contribution can be adjusted as life changes. Members may increase, decrease, pause, or cancel their recurring contribution as their circumstances change.

Because generosity should always have room for real life.

And whether someone supports Ahavah Gardens financially, through service, prayer, creativity, presence, or love, all belong in the Garden.

More Than a Monthly Donation

We don't want the Sustaining Circle to feel like just another automatic payment.

We want our sustaining members to feel connected to the living, growing community they are helping support.

As the Sustaining Circle grows, members may receive meaningful expressions of gratitude and connection throughout the year.

This may include a welcome offering when joining the Circle, an annual Earth. Seed. Soul. gift or piece of sacred artwork, occasional surprises, seasonal blessings, handwritten notes, prayers, mantras, or other small reminders that your support is part of the story of Ahavah Gardens.

These gifts are not rewards for a certain level of giving, and they are not products being exchanged for donations.

They are simply offerings of gratitude.

Some members may choose to receive these expressions of appreciation, while others may prefer for their entire contribution to remain focused on supporting the ministry.

Both choices are honored.

Why Monthly Giving Matters

The power of the Sustaining Circle does not come from a few people giving everything.

It comes from many people choosing to contribute what they can.

A small recurring contribution, multiplied across a community, can create meaningful and dependable support.

That consistency allows Ahavah Gardens to do more than simply respond to immediate needs. It gives us the ability to plan, grow, serve, create, and dream for the future.

It helps create a ministry that is supported by its community and sustained by the people who believe in what is being built here.

Some may give $11.

Some may give $108.

Some may give more.

Some may not be in a position to give financially at all.

All belong.

For those who are able and feel called to contribute, the Sustaining Circle is a simple way to say:

I believe in this.
I want it to continue.
I am helping tend the Garden.

Join the Sustaining Circle

Choose a monthly contribution that feels right for you and become part of the community helping sustain the present and future of Ahavah Gardens.

Tend the Earth.
Plant the Seed.
Nourish the Soul.