St. Aidan 2020 “A Future Full of Hope”
Step Two: Move to NEW Online Giving
It’s 2020, You are now receiving our emails and you are following us on social media, right? What’s next is updating your giving method. In 2018 we were abruptly told that our free Electronic Donation services were going to be eliminated and we jumped on the Our Sunday Visitor electronic giving platform like so many parishes. Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) is a printing company who provides us with our envelopes. While they have provided a satisfactory service for us, we have learned, there are far better alternatives.
Thankfully, Fr. Kevin sent me away to the International Stewardship Conference in Chicago. I selected eight workshops and came back with eight pages of things we need to improve. As I started tackling them with our councils and reading follow up emails from the conference, the solution came down like a tongue of fire. There is a vendor that can not only make our electronic donations easy, secure and cost effective, but one that can also improve our game in the stewardship world. There is much more to come in 2020, but if you are already signed up to give electronically, we need to break away from the old (OSV) and move on to the new (Pushpay) before the end of March. Watch the bulletin, the website and in your email boxes this upcoming week.
If you are not already making your donations electronically, NOW IS THE TIME. I don’t think I have ever used “all caps” in a bulletin article before, so hopefully, it carries great weight. For those of you who like your phone, text the word “Aidan” to 77977. Capital A. It will send you a link to our new mobile giving platform. If you like to stretch out on the widescreen monitor of a desktop, go the parish website, and under serve, select give. Find the Make a Gift button and set up your recurring donations. This is where you ask the bookkeeper “What is best?” And his response is select “Every Month” for the frequency.
As always, with change, patience is required. And with anything prayer is helpful. It was prayer that took me to the stewardship conference and prayer that helped me discern this direction.
Thank you for your continued generosity,
Paul Pyrkosz
Bookkeeper
It’s 2020, You are now receiving our emails and you are following us on social media, right? What’s next is updating your giving method. In 2018 we were abruptly told that our free Electronic Donation services were going to be eliminated and we jumped on the Our Sunday Visitor electronic giving platform like so many parishes. Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) is a printing company who provides us with our envelopes. While they have provided a satisfactory service for us, we have learned, there are far better alternatives.
Thankfully, Fr. Kevin sent me away to the International Stewardship Conference in Chicago. I selected eight workshops and came back with eight pages of things we need to improve. As I started tackling them with our councils and reading follow up emails from the conference, the solution came down like a tongue of fire. There is a vendor that can not only make our electronic donations easy, secure and cost effective, but one that can also improve our game in the stewardship world. There is much more to come in 2020, but if you are already signed up to give electronically, we need to break away from the old (OSV) and move on to the new (Pushpay) before the end of March. Watch the bulletin, the website and in your email boxes this upcoming week.
If you are not already making your donations electronically, NOW IS THE TIME. I don’t think I have ever used “all caps” in a bulletin article before, so hopefully, it carries great weight. For those of you who like your phone, text the word “Aidan” to 77977. Capital A. It will send you a link to our new mobile giving platform. If you like to stretch out on the widescreen monitor of a desktop, go the parish website, and under serve, select give. Find the Make a Gift button and set up your recurring donations. This is where you ask the bookkeeper “What is best?” And his response is select “Every Month” for the frequency.
As always, with change, patience is required. And with anything prayer is helpful. It was prayer that took me to the stewardship conference and prayer that helped me discern this direction.
Thank you for your continued generosity,
Paul Pyrkosz
Bookkeeper
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St. Aidan Catholic Church
17500 Farmington Rd. Livonia, MI 48152 Phone: 734-425-5950 [email protected] Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 AM |
