A Change in giving at Karis Church
Karis Friends and Family,
We’re excited to announce our transition into a new giving platform - PCO Giving. Starting today, you can give to the Karis General Fund, Karis Family Fund, and to all our missionary partners around the world on this new platform.
For our members and regular guests, we highly recommend you download the Church Center App onto your smartphone. You’ll notice a new icon at the bottom of the home screen for giving. For the local folks that already use PCO, you’ll use the same log-in and password as you would for the other applications we use in the PCO suite.
For everyone, and especially those who don’t have smartphones or who don’t attend Karis regularly, you’re welcome to visit the Karis website here and select Give in the upper righthand corner. You can also go here to visit our new online giving page directly.
So why the change? For 2019, we saw a little over $840,000 in donations pass through our current donor platform at GivingFire. We stand to save around 1.5% of that amount in lower ACH and credit card processing fees with our new rates on PCO Giving. Which means around $10,000 in newly available funds for ministry each year.
A few additional details about this change:
GivingFire will still be available to all our donors until June 30th. After that, all giving records and opportunities to make a donation will be found exclusively on PCO Giving. Access to GivingFire can be found here.
For those that have a recurring donation set-up on GivingFire, you’ll need to manually disable the donation, then manually set-up a new donation on the new platform.
With the reduced processing fees, we stand to save a substantial amount of your donation dollars, so we encourage everyone to make the switch right away.
Previously, processing fees were nearly identical for donations made by credit card, debit card, and checking. With the new platform, donations via ACH are now just a flat fee of $0.25, regardless of the size of your donation. So consider, as part of this transition, making your donation via ACH to maximize our savings.
Finally, with this transition, now is a great time for all members and regular guests to review your regular giving to the church. As you familiarize yourself with the new giving platform, take time over the next few weeks to work through your personal/family finances, discussing what faithful giving looks like for your household.
For questions about this transition or how to use our new giving platform, you can email Pastor Rob at rob@karischurch.org.