Resources for your church during COVID-19 By Susan Tanner, arpeditor@arpsynod.org ARPchurch.org provides several resource links to assist you during this time.


• There is a list of online services. Use this time to “visit” other churches as well as “attend” your own. • The article below helps your church set up online giving at no cost. • There is a tutorial for using Zoom to help with any type of meetings such as with your deacons, women’s ministries, etc. • Follow ARPnews.org closely to stay up to date with the latest closing and changes.


Be sure to share how you and your church are reaching church members and the community during this time.?


No Cost, Online Giving Setup for ARP Churches


Weekly giving in many of our churches’ is suffering because members are not able to gather, or have lower at- tendance under the Covid-19 restrictions. To help mitigate delayed, or reduced giving for those churches that do not have online giving capacity, we will create a custom online giving account with no set-up charge to benefit your church and serve your members through May 31st.


1) The General Synod will facilitate cash donations, then mail a check to your church weekly. — No administrative fees.


2) We will provide a list of donors (unless anonymous) and the gift amounts so your church can issue receipts through your regular accounting system. 3) The ARP Foundation will process gifts of marketable stocks or securi- ties; our broker will sell them and send 100% of the proceeds to your church at no charge. The Foundation will issue a gift acknowledgement to the donor and inform your church treasurer of the gift amount and donor (unless anonymous) for a soft credit to you books.


Here’s How to participate: 1. Complete the online request form found on arpchurch.org and submit it. 2. We will respond with a link to a custom webpage for your church that you can post on your website. Contact Steve Nichols, snichols@arpsynod.org with any questions.?


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