St. Barnabas is now offering access to STBARNACCESS—this is an online access to your St. Barnabas’ member profile, the parish membership directory, ministry or committee membership directory, and online pledge and other gift giving and your giving history. It is easy to sign up, just go to the St. Barnabas website, www.saintbarnabas.us, click on the STBARNACCESS link to register and establish your confidential password. In order to register, you will need the email address and your first and last name that is on the St. Barnabas’ people data base. Then follow the online directions. If you have any trouble, call or email Connie Turner, Parish Administrator at 984-3848 or connie@saintbarnabas.us. Several of the Vestry members have already signed up and updated their member profile and started giving online. Paul Leberg said, “That was easy enough.”
Member Profile and Parish Membership Directory—you will be able to view and print a directory by individuals or families. As you know, as soon as a directory is printed, it is out of date. Or if you are not at home where your printed directory is, you can access the parish membership directory where ever you have internet access. On your member profile, you choose the contact information that you want other members to have. You can select a primary phone number, whether you accept texting, update your home address, upload an individual photo. If you have a family portrait in the printed parish directory, the picture is on the online directory now.
Ministry and Committee Membership Directory—you will be able to view a directory of members of the ministries or committees where you are a member. You can send a mass email everyone, print labels, or print a directory. If you are no longer a member of a ministry or committee, please let the ministry head or Connie Turner know. And we will remove you for that list.
Online Pledge and Other Gift Giving and Individual Pledge History—Now, you will be able to give online by credit card or debiting your checking account. It is easy to do, just click on the fund you wish to direct the gift. For example, you can select pledge or non-pledged gift. Have you ever been at church and wanted to give to one of the monthly outreach projects but didn’t have your check book? Now, all you have to do is go online and click on General Outreach. Some of the other options are altar flowers, Christmas or Easter flowers. If you want to see how much you have gave by year, you may go to your individual giving history. This is strictly confidential, you are the only one who can access your account by the password that you choose when you set up an account with STBARNACCESS.
Numerous parishioners have been asking for online giving for several years now. Today, many of us do not carry our check books any longer. Some people pay all their bills online now, and they wanted St. Barnabas to offer the convenience to give online. If you choose not to give online, the church hopes that you use the online parish directory and ministry and committee membership directory and that you keep your member profile updated. If you do not wish to update your member profile online, just call or email Connie Turner, and she is happy to update. Other churches have installed an online access system, and it has been welled received by the parishioners.
STBARNACCESS has many other features that will be implemented in 2012—online registration for programs like EYC retreats, vacation bible school. If you have any questions, please call or email Connie Turner at 984-3848 or connie@saintbarnabas.us.