Welcome to our online bulletin!
Realm Connect - Our Church Community: It's finally here!
As you may know, our church has moved to a new kind of church record keeping solution called Realm®. It primarily serves the administrative needs of our staff, but it also offers some exciting opportunities to support the way you are involved in our church. Not only will this improve work life for our ministry staff, it will make it easier for our church family to connect with each other, keep up with what’s going on, and grow as a connected community of believers.
So.... If you can’t find your invitation, email Nikki and request a new one. After you accept the invitation and create your login, you can download the Connect app (find the links below) and come join us in creating our online community!
What is Realm? Realm is a real ministry tool.
Realm is an online ministry tool designed for real time connection. It helps our church connect with you and you connect with us. If you consider yourself part of this church family, you’ll love it. Realm allows you to manage your personal information and who is allowed to see it, control your giving, and keep in touch with the groups that matter to you.
Why use Realm? Realm strengthens church connections.
Being the church doesn’t just happen at the church. Realm helps us serve you better and leads this church well between Sundays. Everyone can be connected from anywhere at any time, right from our mobile devices. It engages everyone in the life of our church by supporting the healthy relationships essential to our church’s mission. We’ll stay organized, and you’ll stay informed about all of the opportunities for fellowship. When we share life together, we will grow together.
What about my privacy? Realm is safe, private, and secure.
Your privacy is one of our greatest concerns. Realm is only made up of the people in your church, it’s not like a social network that’s open to everyone. Realm keeps your data safe and gives you control over what information you share and who can see it.
What about giving? Realm gives you control over your giving.
Giving should be easy, and Realm places giving right in the palm of your hands. You may set up recurring gifts, view your giving history, and make changes at any time. Realm automatically records all electronic gifts and adds them to your giving record making it easy for you to give, and easy for our bookkeeper to track.
How do I start? Follow a few simple steps.
If you haven’t received an invitation to join Realm yet:
- Send an email requesting the email-invitation to church@stsconstantinehelenwi.org
- Our church is on Realm Connect, so see below how to download the mobile app.
- Your Realm login works on your home computer and on your mobile devices, so when you sign into Realm, use the login you created in step 1 for the computer or the app.
- Check to make sure that we have your address and other personal information entered correctly under My Profile. If anything is incorrect, you can change it.
- If you have any questions, contact Nikki at church@stsconstantinehelenwi.org
Let's Connect!
Stay connected to our church wherever you go by downloading the free Connect -‐ Our Church Community app for iPhone and Android devices. Use it to communicate with your groups, RSVP to events, manage your giving, update profile information, and more. It makes it easier for us to connect throughout the week and know what’s happening
•News—Keeps everyone up-to-date with the latest posts, photos, and events for your group and for your church as a whole
•Posts—Post messages to your group and comment on posts by others in your group
•Photos—Capture your moments together and share them with your group
•Events—See event details (date, time, location, etc), submit your RSVP, and sign up to bring something
•Files —Access your group’s shared files
•Messages—Send your entire group, or select individuals, a message that starts a conversation
•Participants—See names and basic profile details for the people in your church or group, based on their privacy preferences
•Notification Settings—Manage your preferences for group notifications and emails
iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/connect-our-church-community/id1052274581?mt=8&uo=4
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acstechnologies.android.realm.engagement
Profile: Everyone in our church gets a unique profile. Your profile contains everything you want people in our church to know about you. Your profile also enables you to join a small group, RSVP to events, track your giving, update your contact information, change family details, set notification preferences, or replace that outdated family photo. By keeping your information current, you are helping our staff, group leaders, and our church community. Your Profile includes:
- •Contact Information* (e.g. name, address, email, phone)
- •Photo
- •Family Members
- •Personal Information (e.g. marital status, birthday**, etc.)
- •Connected Social Media accounts
*You can decide later what data you want to hide online by setting your privacy preferences.
**Feel free to enter your full birthday. The year and your age will not be displayed on your church directory profile.
Groups and classes are an important part of our church, and now you can connect with the people in them throughout the week. You can keep track of upcoming meetings, who’s bringing what, and what’s going on in each other’s lives.
Giving: You can review your giving history or make new donations online or on your mobile phone. Simply sign in to look over your year-to-date giving, check pledge progress, print a contribution statement, or make a new one-time or recurring donation. It’s always available and kept secure in an easy-to-use online environment. No matter how you choose to give toward our ministry, you can review all of your giving history online anytime: Check or Cash, Online Gifts (one-time or recurring), Text Giving*, Pledges
*Requires a unique keyword for our church. Text StsCnH and amount to 73256 on your smart phone.
Important Announcements:
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Please note that Fr. Panteleimon will be hearing Holy Confession up until Saturday of Lazarus - from Palm Sunday through Pascha (i.e. during Holy Week) Father will NOT be hearing confessions. Please arrange for confession prior to Palm Sunday.
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Fr. Panteleimon visits all of our parish shut-ins prior to Pascha. If you know of someone who would benefit from a visit from Fr. Panteleimon, please notify the parish office.
Regarding letter of recommendation requests from Fr. Panteleimon
Please note that during late winter Fr. Panteleimon receives many requests (often as many as 30 or 40) for letters of recommendation. Father asks that you give him at least one week (7 days) to process these requests. Please also note that, when letters are completed, we ask you to pick them up in the office yourselves as we don't want to be the cause of applications not being complete, and/or parts of applications not being with the rest of the application. Thank you for your help with this.
Did you know?
There are many ways to send your contributions to our church, other than cash or check. For example, our newest option is to
Give by Text!
You can now give to our church by using your smartphone via text using debit/credit card or ACH payments. It will take you about 2 minutes to set up your payment method, which is saved for future text gifts! Just text our church's keyword, STSCNH to 73256 along with the amount, i.e. text STSCNH 25 to 73256. Shortly after, you will receive a text with a link to our secure online text giving page where you can choose a specific fund and set up your payment method. At the moment, the available funds you can give to by text are Stewardship, Candles, Maintenance, Fee (to pay for a church fee) or General Donation (default).
Online!
You know that you can also give online and setup recurring payments by visiting our website (https://onrealm.org/StsCnH/Give) and clicking on the "Click to Donate Online" button. But if you download a free QR Code Scanner application and scan the following code, it will take you directly to the secure online donation page. You can readily find this QR code on the front page of our weekly bulletins and on the back cover of The Vine.
Go ahead! Try it! It's so cool!!
Please obey all parking laws
During the weekend, if you are not able to find parking space in our lot,
you may use the parking lots of either
- the City of Wauwatosa or
- BMO Harris Bank,
just a block away.
Additonally, if you are able, please consider our elders, or single parents coming to church with their children and leave empty spots in our parking lot for them.
Respect our neighbors and our own safety!
