Online Giving
We are excited to inform you that we now offer online giving! As a church that seeks to serve, we wanted to provide you the convenience of being able to give the way you want, whenever you want. Online giving offers you the opportunity to make secure, automatic contributions from your bank [or credit/debit card] account to our church. Online Giving costs you nothing and provides many advantages to you and the church:
Benefits for You
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No check writing or ATM stops before church
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Safe, secure, and confidential transactions
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Use your checking/savings account or credit/debit card
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Schedule recurring or one-time donations
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Change a gift or account anytime you like
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Choose offertory, special funds, pledges
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View your giving history anytime
Benefits for the Church
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Provides sustained giving that helps parish budgeting and ministry planning
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Reduces check processing fees
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Allows staff more time to focus on ministries
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Creates peace in knowing your data and auto-deposited gifts are secure
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Accommodates special funds
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Provides giving history for tax statements
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Reaches a wider demographic of givers
Secure
SECURITY IS OUR TOP PRIORITY.
That’s why Online Giving:
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Meets all the strictest PCI/DSS security stands and is PCI compliant
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Uses SSL certificates and encryption
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Has intrusion detection, and transaction security
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Is committed to keeping your data safe at all times
How To Give
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Planned – Growing in generosity means being intentional about our giving. Planning our giving means that we intentionally set aside money from our budget to give away. An efficient way to plan our giving is to give electronically.
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Priority – Making giving a priority means giving it first place in our budgets. Growing in generosity requires that we don’t give leftovers. We give our “first fruits” back to God.
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Percentage – In planning our gifts, we pick a percentage to give away, keeping in mind the biblical standard of the tithe or giving ten percent back to God. Identify a percentage of your income to give away. A suggested way to tithe would be 5% to the local parish, 1% to the local church (the Annual Diocesan Appeal), and 4% to other worthy charities or needs.
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Progressive – Our goal over time is to increase the percentage of our income that we give away. As God blesses us financially we recognize that we have been blessed to be a blessing.