Electronic Sunday Offerings

Many parish members choose to set up a regular donation from their online banking center. If you prefer, we have the option for an Electronic Sunday Offering, which transfers funds directly from your account to the parish account. You choose how much and whether you prefer to have it deducted on the 15th or 30th of a month. You can change it at any time. If you would like to download an E.S.O, form and fill it out, please click on “Electronic Sunday Offering” and mail it in, drop it off in person or in the Sunday collection. Our parish business manager will contact you to follow up.

Bequests/Wills

Please consider including SS. John and Paul Parish in your will. Gifts of cash, stocks, bonds, and real estate can be accepted by the parish. If you have questions about this, please contact the Parish Business Manager. If you would like to download a booklet that describes such gifts in more detail please click on “Bequests and Wills Booklet.”

Catholic Services Appeal

This yearly appeal each May is the largest source of funds to support the work and offices of the Archdiocese of Detroit. Each parish has a mandatory target that must be reached, or else the money comes out of the operating budget. The advantage to the parish, when you give a significant gift via the C.S.A., is that all monies help the parish 100%. No diocesan “tax” is taken out of these donations. Either the money helps the parish reach a mandatory target or else is returned to the parish 100% for its own use. Here at SS. John and Paul we consistently make our target and so a number of parishioners use the C.S.A. as a way to give extra support to the parish, knowing that all monies will directly benefit the parish. If you want a donation to be included in the C.S.A., please be sure to designate that in some way on the donation.

To download this year's C.S.A. appeal letter and pledge/donation form, click on CSA Pledge Form. To review all the archdiocesan information, including the budget connected to this year's C.S.A., click on Archdiocese of Detroit C.S.A..

Year-End Donations

At times people are in a position at the end of a calendar year to offer an extra charitable gift to the parish. Since such donations are not included in how the C.S.A. target is calculated, these types of donations are also a good way to give the parish extra, significant donations.

Christmas Collection

The Christmas collection is not taxed by the diocese. That means that all monies stay in the parish for its own use. However, since the Christmas collection is factored into the calculation for C.S.A. mandatory targets, we recommend simply a usual Christmas gift and then give anything extra or significant either in a Year-End donation or the spring C.S.A. donation.