Many of our parishioners have learned the gift of Electronic Fund Transfers (EFT) as a way of benefitting our parish.  It provides a regular gift and helps considerably in our planning.  It also saves time and money in terms of writing checks or finding ourselves short of cash on Sunday.  I myself do this as a part of my responsibility to the parish.

The funds can come through a direct transfer from a checking account--I find this most helpful--or it can come through a credit card.  Many like this because they can get mileage points or other benefits as well as gift the parish.  Thank you to those who have been doing this!  

We now have a new way of gifting the parish.  You can now go online and contribute through our new web-site.  You can do a one time gift or set up a regular gift and maintain it yourself at any time--making whatever changes you might feel necessary.  You can trade off different credit cards, update when a card expires and you receive a new one or change the amount you want to donate.  You can designate what you want your gift to go to--plate, special donation, AMA, Family Fund etc.  Access is through your email address.  

We would like all who wish to donate electronically to do it through our site and to give yourself control of your gift, even if you have already giving electronically.  It will work a little differently for those who are already giving and for those who choose to do it for the first time.

If you already donate electronically, please send me your email address--the one you would like to use for this purpose.  I will enter it into the system and let you know when I have done that.  Then, when you go online you won’t have to re-enter card numbers or bank checking and routing numbers and your records will be in one place.  You will be given a password which you will then change for yourself.

If you are doing it for the first time, just go to the site.  Enter your email address at the site.  You will be sent a password.  Once you have that return to the site, enter your password, change the password to one you will remember and then enter your information.

Pray about this.  It is a way to assure a consistency in your gift and it is a great help to the parish.  All your gifts are recorded and you will receive the appropriate tax documents at the end of the year.  Thanks!