To achieve our aims, the Parish employs ministry and administrative staff, maintains property at three centres and distributes a portion (currently 20%) of offertories to external Christian missions. These costs are met almost entirely through the voluntary giving of parishioners. Regular income to support our ministry is a vital expression of Christian fellowship. There are a number of ways of giving regularly which have the advantage, for parishioners and the Parish, of not involving the weekly management of cash.
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It is Parish Council policy to encourage as many parishioners as possible to make their offertory giving by direct debit. This is a helpful way of making sure that their commitment to regular giving is soundly based. And the Parish also stands to benefit from such regular giving by parishioners. There are a few different ways of doing it, in the likely order of convenience both for you and the Parish: - If your employer’s payroll system allows, arrange for the amount you wish to give per pay period to be deducted from your salary and remitted to the Parish’s bank account with Glebe Income Accounts:
BSB No: 704 998
Account No: 100007625 S8
Account name: Dural Anglican Parish - If you do your banking on the Internet, arrange for your offertory (say, monthly) to be remitted to the Parish’s bank account (same details as above). Please also include a reference which either shows your name or, for privacy’s sake, only the church service you attend (eg “10 am member”).
- Arrange for your monthly offertory to be debited directly from your bank account and remitted to Sydney Diocesan Secretariat, who will then forward the money to the Parish. You will need to complete the diocese’s form for this method – obtainable from the Treasurer.
- Arrange with your bank to make a periodical payment from your bank account to the Parish’s. The bank will probably charge a fee.
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To assist parishioners, the parish makes available a dated set of giving envelopes each year. Use of the envelopes provides a confidential way of giving. It also encourages members to give regularly, and to make up any weeks they might be away. |
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When making or reviewing the terms of your will, please consider the inclusion of a bequest in favour of the Parish. Bequests are a valuable way of helping future parishioners to maintain and expand the Christian ministry which the Parish has faithfully provided since the middle of the 19th century. |
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