What is Simply Giving

Simply Giving is an automated giving program designed to help you conveniently and consistently contribute to your Congregation.  Through Simply Giving, your gifts are made through a pre-authorized withdrawal from your bank account or credit card.  You determine the frequency of your automatic gift—weekly, semi-monthly or monthly—the option is yours.  Your gift or payment is deposited into Good Shepherd’s account on the same day it is withdrawn from your account—at no cost to you or the church. 

Simply Giving Benefits You

Simply Giving is a safe and reliable program that allows you to determine your level of giving.  You fill out the paper work and Simply Giving carries out your instructions for you.  This automated program helps you grow in generosity by helping you plan your giving to Good Shepherd.  It serves you by helping you stay current with your offerings.  No longer will you need to “catch-up” at year-end or worry about forgotten offerings.

Simply Giving Benefits Good Shepherd

Simply Giving helps Good Shepherd fund its important work.  The more people use it, the more secure Good Shepherd becomes.  It costs nothing for the church to receive your gifts through Simply Giving.  It costs nothing for the giver to use.  Yet, it helps us as a community be stronger through regular giving.  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans offers Simply Giving to further its mission of serving Lutheran Congregations and institutions. 

How to Begin Using Simply Giving

Signing up for Simply Giving is easy.  Complete the “Simply Giving Member Enrollment and Authorization Form” using black ink, attach a voided check or a savings deposit slip to it and return the signed form to the church office in an envelope on which you have written “Simply Giving.”  You can mail the form to the church or place it in the offering plate on a Sunday morning.