Administration
Administration
Automate your Tithe to St. Michael’s
As your Treasurer it is my responsibility to monitor the finances of St. Michael’s Church. One of the challenges that we have consistently faced over the years is cash flow. While we are truly blessed with a faithful congregation committed to tithing and financially supporting our Church, the overall receipt of those donations and tithe contributions is spread inconsistently throughout the year. We typically receive strong donations and tithe contributions in the Spring and Fall with a lull in the Summer and a peak at year-end. However our operating expenses for payroll, utilities, insurance, etc. do not fluctuate seasonally. So over the past few years you have seen more and more pleas from the Church asking for consistent financial support through the Summer months and the entire year. This year, we have a new idea for your consideration – EFT. What is EFT? Ecclesiastical Financial Transformation? Evangelists For Tithing? No, Electronic Funds Transfer!!
Many of you probably already use EFT in one of its many forms already. Whether using your bank’s online Bill Pay to submit payments electronically, signing up for bank draft for a utility payment, or using PayPal online to donate to a charity, you are already familiar with the EFT tools. What you may not realize is that all three of these EFT examples are available to you today right here at St. Michael’s Church. If you could use one of these EFT tools for your regular tithe or donation to the Church, and schedule that electronic payment to occur on a regular interval, it would go a long way towards solving our cash flow issue. You could do this by using your bank’s online Bill Pay to send a weekly or monthly electronic payment to St. Michael’s, or signing up for our bank draft service where we could schedule that electronic transaction for you. In doing so you could save both yourself and our Bookkeeper time in the weekly ritual of writing and depositing manual checks. More importantly, if your annual tithe and contributions are split evenly over the full twelve months of the year, St. Michael’s will be in a much better position to fund our ongoing expenses throughout the year.
You may have concerns with this concept. Let me try to address a few right now.
With EFT I’m locked in and can’t change if I need to – not true! You can change your online Bill Pay schedule or amount at any time, or you can call the Church office to change your bank draft schedule or amount as needed.
EFT won’t allow me to designate payments for Generation to Generation (Capital Campaign) giving vs. regular tithe payments -- not true! You can set these two payments up separately with different schedules and amounts. You can designate them with the memo feature commonly available with online Bill Pay or the bank draft that we would establish for you.
If I use EFT for all my giving then I won’t have anything to put into the plate on Sundays. I certainly understand the Spiritual component of giving that is associated with the physical act of giving the gift on Sundays. If you feel called to place something into the plate each Sunday, there are options available to you that would still allow you to use EFT. Whether it is simply pulling a bill from your wallet or purse to supplement your giving through EFT, or the slightly more complicated option of splitting your gift through a combination of EFT and checks in the plate, you can find a way to do both.
Please understand: we are grateful for the generous financial support from each of you. If you’d consider using EFT for your regular giving to St. Michael’s it would help us greatly by saving processing time and ensuring a regular cash flow to meet our regular expense commitments. Please feel free to see me or contact Brenda Georgi, our Chief of Administration, if you have any questions about EFT and the options available to you for electronic giving. Thank you.
~ Scott Cave, Treasurer
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On that note, here’s a funny quote from the book Stuff Christians Like. Sometimes, you think, “I wish I had a t-shirt that said, ‘I direct deposit my tithe’ so people sitting near me at church wouldn’t judge me.” Find this quote funny? This book is hilarious. Buy it at Saints Alive. ~ Vicki Vázquez & Christine Meredith |
Church Office Hours Changing
Beginning Tuesday, June 1, 2010, the church office located at 71 Broad Street will have new office hours.
The office will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
This change is being made for many reasons. As humans, we are all geared to have things begin and end on either the hour or half hour; this change helps us be consistent with that expectation. The 8:30 a.m. start time is more in line with the offices that surround us on Broad Street. Many of our staff live outside of the peninsula and leaving at 4:30 p.m. is very helpful in getting ahead of the downtown traffic. Just 15 minutes earlier can mean the difference of up to 45 minutes of commute time. This will make it easier for our staff to have more quality time with their families.
You will notice the signs change over the next few weeks in preparation for the church office hours.
Please let us know if you have any questions regarding this change.
~ Brenda Georgi
Baptisms: We receive you into the household of God…
06-06-10 Oliver Beham Flynn, son of Elizabeth Behan Jarema and Jason Patrick Flynn
06-20-10 Mary Kershaw Boykin, daughter of Ann Johnson Shearon and Alexander Hamilton Boykin
06-20-10 Lila Brooks Parris Pearson, daughter of Emily Parris and Bryant Gatewood Pearson
Marriages: Congratulations!
06-05-10 Mary Elizabeth Sosnowski and James Nunn McDaniel
06-12-10 Lucia Pinckney Rawlinson and Wesley Adair Covington
06-26-10 Lisa Renea Sewell and Preston Clay Hadden
Deaths: Rest Eternal
05-18-10 Albert Leonard Stephens, III
May 2010 From the Parish Register
Baptisms: We receive you into the household of God…
04-18-10 Louis Robert Drobis, son of Sarah Macpherson and Craig Scott Drobis
04-18-10 Henry Wooldridge Steinhaus, son of Courtney Barrier and Christopher James Steinhaus
04-18-10 Jackson Cedric Steinhaus, son of Beverly Poplin and Nicholas Cedric Steinhaus
04-18-10 Ryan Alexander and Breland Suzanne Kenney, son and daughter of Cheryl Breland and Patrick Ryan Kenney
04-18-10 Anna Rowan Turner, daughter of Karen Larson and Corey Morgan Turner
04-18-10 Wilkins Bachman Von Dohlen, son of Felisha Marian and Joseph Wilkens Von Dohlen, II
05-16-10 Capers Landrum Cauthen, Jr, son of Katherine Greer and Capers Landrum Cauthen, Sr.
05-16-10 Henry Gaines Stevenson, son of Kathryn de Rosset Long and Thomas Calvin Stevenson
05-16-10 Oscar Benjamin Taylor, son of Kathryn Shelby Holley and Adrian Lewis Taylor
Transferred In: Welcome!
04-27-10 Capers L. Cauthen
Cathedral of St. Luke & St. Paul, Charleston, SC
04-27-10 Robert L. & Mary Kneisley Ables
St. Philip’s Church, Charleston, SC
04-27-10 Stuart Whitley & Harriet Gettys Coleman and their children, Mary McAngus and Stuart Whitley, Jr. St. Philip’s Church, Charleston, SC
Marriages: Congratulations!
04-10-10 Cornelia Charlotte Sosnowski and Corey Bradford Prescott
04-24-10 Laura Leigh Graves and Seth Wilson Clark
05-15-10 Shannon Noel Murray and David Michael Holton
Transfers Out: God bless…
04-21-10 James & Laurie Rhoad and their children, Aiden and Amelia St. George Episcopal, Summerville, SC
04-27-10 Lindsay Caroline Warren - Blessed Sacrament
Catholic Church, Charleston, SC
05-03-10 Gerald J & Margaret Perry
Christ Episcopal Church, Quinby, SC
Deaths: Rest Eternal
04-17-10 Margaret Adger Williams
05-06-10 Jordan Thurlow Jack
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| Tom and Duval | Acker |
| Adrienne | Aimar |
| Arthur | Bailey |
| Ann & Charles | Beauchamp |
| Burwell | Boykin |
| Todd | Brown |
| Rose | Bryan |
| Jessie | Chapman |
| Capers, Capers Jr., Emma | Cauthen |
| Holly | Craighead |
| Rhett | Crisler |
| Lizzie | Davis |
| Michaels | Diaz |
| Jane | Dickson |
| Martha | Dougherty |
| Frank & Lisa | Farmer |
| Bruce & Brenda | Georgi |
| Randy & Paulette | Gobel |
| Steven & Gretchen | Hauser |
| Jack & Sunsan | Herrmnann |
| Chris | Hider |
| Ellen | Hollingsworth |
| Beverly | Howell |
| Gina | Hull |
| Pat | Jennings |
| Anne | Kelly |
| Merillee | Kinney |
| Allston | Kitchens |
| Elizabeth & Ellen | Kitchens |
| Paul, Khaki, Lyndsay | Lankau |
| Robert | Lessane |
| Eunice | Logan |
| Bill | Lyles |
| Swain | Marion |
| Bradford & Charles | Marshall |
| Will | Mayer |
| Rob | McRae |
| Meta | Moore |
| Peter | Moore |
| Scott & Rhonda | Myers |
| Joe | Nicholson |
| Ed & Susan | Norman |
| Jack | Rankin |
| Heidi & Arthur | Ravenel |
| David | Reese |
| David & Marty | Richardson |
| Caroline | Sanders |
| Jane Thornhill | Schachte |
| Ned & Barbara | Simmons |
| Hamilton & Lizzie | Smith |
| Helen | Smith |
| Tillman | Smith |
| Gretchen | Sosnowski |
| Janet & Chris | Sosnowski |
| John & Patti | Sosnowski |
| Linda and David | Soutter |
| Dewey & Kimberly | Strang |
| Normandie | Updyke |
| Vicki | Vazquez |
| Hugh & Boo | Wilson |
| Jeanette | Winfield |
| Elizabeth | Zadig |
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