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Can there be an easier way to pay tithing. I heard that some wards are able to pay their tithing online. Is this true. I’m tired of filling out slips of paper and writing a check and having to walk it up to the bishopric, there has got to be an easier way, or I’m just very lazy. I guess i’m just trying to go paperless 100%. No paperless methods I’m aware of…but I hear you can mail it to SLC if you want privacy…. I contacted headquarters and received by email instructions for paying electronically: ====From me============================================
ATTENTION: TREASURY SERVICES
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
ATTENTION: TREASURY SERVICES-ELECTRONIC DONATIONS
50 EAST NORTH TEMPLE STREET, Room 1521
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84150-3612
Email:
Donations@ldschurch.org Phone: (801) 240-2554 or 1-800-453-3860 Ext 2-2554
Fax: 801-240-2202
Dear Treasury Services,
Please send me the electronic donation information form.
With kindest regards,
Tom Haws
====From headquarters==============================================
Here are the documents you will need to get setup with Billpay. Please fill out the form and return it to us. We will then set you up in our database and send you back an email letting you know when you can make your first contribution. Please let us know if you need anything else.
Thank you—
LDS Donations
50 East North Temple Street
Room 1521
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
Phone: 801-240-2554
Fax: 801-240-2204
I don’t see anything in that email that would allow someone to enact a bank transfer or payment. You usually need the routing number, account number, bank name, and some other information. Or are you just posting that as a reference so people can get in touch with the Church contact listed?
In any regards, I would definitely recommend contacting the Church in advance of sending money so that they know what is happening, and what type of donation it is. They won’t know what to do with the funds it if their protocol isn’t followed.
Yeah, Brian. I didn’t include the attachments. Here’s some additional info: 50 East North Temple Street
Room 1521
Salt Lake City UT 84150
Email:
Donations@ldschurch.org Facsimile: 801-240-2202
Telephone: 801-240-2554
Instructions for making electronic (ACH) donations through bill pay services:
The Payee Account Number is your member record number (MRN) ###-####-#### (zeros and
dashes are required).
The Payee Name is the donation category
(enter these exactly as shown below):
LDS-Tithing
LDS-Fast Offering
LDS-Missionary (General only. No ward funds.)
LDS-Book of Mormon
LDS-PEF
LDS-Other (General Humanitarian Fund only)
The Payee Address and telephone number to input in your Bill Pay Service (if requested) are listed at the
top of the page; please input the address exactly as formatted above.
The bill pay service can be used only for the categories listed above. Fast Offering donations go to
the General Fast Offering Fund and cannot be processed as ward Fast Offering donations. Missionary
donations are credited to the General Missionary Fund only. Ward missionary donations cannot be made
by bill pay service. All donations to the “Other” category are credited to the General Humanitarian Fund.
A few days after you initiate your first donation please call or email our office to verify that your donation
posted correctly to your account.
If you wish to donate to categories not available through the bill pay process explained above, please
contact your local unit or mail the donation along with a donation slip or letter of explanation to the
address listed at the top of this form.
Thank you for your interest in donating to the Church through the bill payment process.
I’m surprised at the number of people that mail their donations to the bishop. How many people here ask that the deacons/teachers/priests not come to their home to gather Fast Offerings?
:raisehand:
It seems crazy to me to have them come when I know I’m going to doing a tithing donation anyway.
observant wrote:It seems crazy to me to have them come when I know I’m going to doing a tithing donation anyway.
I was in a ward that had them go anyway as some sort of positive experience and activity. I am pretty sure the Bishop arranged with some families to do their fast offerings that way.
Brian Johnston wrote:observant wrote:It seems crazy to me to have them come when I know I’m going to doing a tithing donation anyway.
I was in a ward that had them go anyway as some sort of positive experience and activity. I am pretty sure the Bishop arranged with some families to do their fast offerings that way.
I remember in one PH meeting, they likened it to missionary work and explained that it helped give the boys some idea of what tracting would be like. They also encouraged people to give their fast offerings this way to help encourage the boys. The funny thing is, we have so few active young men in the ward that it’s usually older RMs coming to the door. I figure they should know what rejection is like!
Seriously, if I’m around I’ll pay it this way. It doesn’t bother me. But I’ve been paying my tithing directly to church HQ for some time now, mainly for the convenience factor but I also found out the had way once that tithing money in my stake isn’t treated as confidentially as it should be sometimes.
Steve-hpias wrote:I remember in one PH meeting, they likened it to missionary work and explained that it helped give the boys some idea of what tracting would be like.
Hmm. Could they maybe help out at Goodwill, Save The Family, a soup kitchen, or a homeless shelter once per month instead? There’s plenty of eye-opening work all around without making tedious work for them.
Tom Haws wrote:Hmm. Could they maybe help out at Goodwill, Save The Family, a soup kitchen, or a homeless shelter once per month instead? There’s plenty of eye-opening work all around without making tedious work for them.
I think they were thinking specifically in terms of exposing them to rejection and learning how to deal with it. I’m pretty sure no one at a soup kitchen would turn them down when they try to offer them soup.
“rejection” Sigh. Are we not damaged enough? Why do we persist in the delusion that these offenses are holy teaching? “It is necessary that offenses come. But wo unto him by whom they come.” Our children are not horses to be broken (not that breaking horses is most helpful either). They are royal sparks to be tended and fanned into a roaring blaze.
Tom Haws wrote:
Hmm. Could they maybe help out at Goodwill, Save The Family, a soup kitchen, or a homeless shelter once per month instead? There’s plenty of eye-opening work all around without making tedious work for them.Tom,
I really like this Idea. Going to the homeless shelter, soup kitchen or such is a much better experience than going to the same old members over and over. I have had my boys (at least the older two, 16 and 13yrs) come to me after serving at the life shelter and unload, “Wow dad, I see why you tell me to work hard, not waste my
entirelife on video games, get good grades etc….” It opens their eyes to the real world around us and the difference one can make in it. I think sending the boys and their already overworked fathers (speaking of how I feel) out to waste more time and gas is a very inefficient way to get the job done. Its a real battle against the, “that’s the way we are told to do it, my brain’s in a box” crowd.
by the way, is there a spell check on this thing? I am the worlds worst speller.
f4h1
f4h1, I tend to be the site’s spell checker. 🙂
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