Contagion

Next week sometime I've got a meeting with a guy who is gonna hook us up with a wireless interac machine. At first, because we are meeting in SilverCity, we were going to remind people about the ATM machines out in the lobby. But after we thought about it, we figured that it would be really lame if every week we said "And oh ya, don't forget about your offerings...and for your convenience there are fully loaded ATM's out in the lobby for you to go and empty so you can fill up our popcorn buckets!" I'm not sure that would go over that well. With this machine people will just see it as they walk past and over time will know what it's for.

The problem is that most of the couples and young adults that we know don't carry cash and they don't know how to write cheques. This machine will give people the ability to give without needing cold hard cash in their hands. I know it's gonna help me...there's been too many weeks where I've forgotten and had to run a cheque over to our book keepers house during the week.

However, we purposefully didn't get the credit option because I'm not sure i agree with the whole "going in debt" to tithe thing. yes, there are some that pay it off. And the air miles option is really nice. But it's not about the return. It's about letting God be God of your finances and life by giving up what is already rightfully his anyways.