Plastic Card Donations

“A growing number of Canadian churches” are adopting “modem banking practices, introducing bank cards and credit cards as convenient ways for parishioners to make collection-plate donations,”


says the Vancouver Sun newspaper. Debit machines have been placed in church halls along with “donation envelopes with options for automatic account withdrawal and credit card payment.” Individuals simply swipe their card,


key in the amount they wish to donate, and then put a copy of the receipt in the collection plate. As one pastor stated: “A cashless society is where society is going. Why not the church?” A church treasurer joked: “You get air-miles on your card, plus you go to heaven for donations. Just think of it as double reward points.”