Is Your Church Getting an ATM to Put in the Lobby????
 

There was an email sent out about a week ago informing members of Christ Church in Nashville that they could be set up to make a direct deposit for tithes and offerings. This means never having to write another check for tithes or special missions pledges. In fact, your weekly or monthly pledge can be automatically deducted from your checking or savings account!

Here is an interesting article in Time magazine about this trend:

The ATM in the Church Lobby

I don't know...direct deposit for tithes? Brings a whole new meaning to "bring in your tithes"...now we electronically transfer them

Here is the ATM website:

http://www.churchlink.biz/products.php

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...wayman/ATM.gif

Do you recken the Tulsa group will preach against this? :D

After all, it does have a TV screen!!!

So does their computer.........:ursofunny

I would welcome the chance to have my tithes deducted electronically...half the time we can't find the checkbook LOL

Church and pizza are the only things I write checks for these days! :D If the pizza delivery guy would bring a charge card machine (for debit purposes) I would have it made! :bliss

At the pizza place I moonlight at on Saturday nights, they'll let you charge it when you order and the delivery guy will bring the receipt to sign :)!

I've seen on some church websites where you can make offering payments electronically, through the website. And I know some churches take credit cards too. Putting an ATM in the lobby is just another way of making it easier to get money to put in the collection plate. And presumably the church gets some percentage of the ATM fee these machines collect from people who use them. Yes, there is a cost involved here. Banks don't set up this service out of the kindness of their hearts.