Culture of Generosity
We seek to give God the first and the best of everything we steward.
Tithes & Offerings
When you tithe you give toward the necessities that help LIFE Fellowship function including our mortgage, ministry expenses, staff team, maintenance, security and other regular expenses of the church. Ten percent of each gift goes directly to missions.
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Above & Beyond
We challenge our community to give above and beyond their tithes to go beyond our campus! These designated yearly offerings are used to expand our reach through our Global Outreach strategy.
Frequently Asked
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Pushpay is a merchant consigned by the church enabling you to make safe and speedy payments online and via smartphone.
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Yes. No credit card details are held on your phone. Credit card details are tokenized and are stored on industrial grade servers where this information is then encrypted. The security setup used by Pushpay is the same as many banks and is PCI DSS compliant. For this reason, Pushpay is considered significantly more secure than many current offerings including actually having a credit card physically present. If your phone is lost, no transactions can be made without your passcode, as opposed to current credit card theft.
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Yes, You will receive an email immediately after giving. However you can view a list of your transactions that you have made using Pushpay both via the LIFE App (when you create and link your account via phone) and within CCB (our church database). Simply login to CCB and you can see all of the giving you have done via mobile app, website and texting. LIFE Fellowship also sends out quarterly and year-end giving statements to help keep you abreast.
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Pushpay is charged merchant processing fees by the major credit cards, which they then pass along to the church. These average about 2.2% per transaction. With this in mind, we ask that you consider giving via Bill Pay/ACH draft directly from your bank. You can set this up online through the Pushpay portal and the associated fees are 1% for ACH and 0 for BillPay. Gifts received via cash and check are also welcome and do not incur any fees.
If you are committed to paying via debit and/or credit card, we ask that you consider using the “donor cover fees” feature. This will add the 2.4% automatically, which allows LIFE Fellowship to receive your gift with no extra bank fees attached.
You can learn more about this by watching the video below. However you give, we thank you for your generosity.
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Yes. There are tax advantages to giving stocks and similar assets.
• Stock Transfers – LIFE welcomes gifts of stocks and mutual funds. If securities have been held for more than a year and are donated directly to the church, the donor is able to deduct the full fair market value of the securities and avoid paying any capital gain tax. Please include identification with the transfer.
• Matching Gifts – Many companies allow their employees to make donations to charitable organizations through payroll deductions, and they often match the gift dollar for dollar.
• Personal Property – Over the years, our church has been given automobiles, furniture, equipment and even a boat. We gratefully accept gifts-in-kind that we can truly use, or we try to direct donors to other ministries that have needs.
Contact Susan Ciangiola at sciangiola@lifecharlotte.com or by calling 704-312-5433 (Monday-Thursday) if you need assistance transferring those assets.
Stewardship Strategy
Thank you for considering covering the 2.2% transaction fee through Pushpay on our behalf, LIFE Family!
