How to remit annual dues to the Association of Covenant Spiritual Directors:
This platform has moved from an on-line processor (such as PayPal or Venmo), to a bank-to-bank transfer agent. If your home bank has partnered with Zelle by joining the Zelle network, you should be able to send money to the Association from your home account using Zelle.
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Initiate your home banking app on your phone or computer
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Choose the ‘transfer and pay’ option on your home banking site or app
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Select the option ‘send Money with Zelle’ (you should be transferred from your bank’s site to the Zelle site)
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Select the ‘send’ option
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Search for the Association using these prompts:
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Association of Covenant Spiritual (the association’s enrolled name)
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admin@eccacsd.org (the association’s enrolled email address)
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If these prompts work as intended, the application should load up a payment page with the Association named as the recipient
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On the ‘Payment’ screen, you input the desired amount to transfer (underneath the amount, you should see the source as your personal bank account)
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Entering the amount will take you to a ‘Review’ screen
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Use the Memo dropdown box, so you can add a note:
Short description: ‘2025 dues from [put your name here]’
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Hit the ‘Send’ button and you are done
This platform supports your-bank-to-association transfers, but does not support credit card payment methods (such as PayPal). If you have set up a Venmo account using your home bank account as the source of transfers, then you can send money to the Association from your home account using Venmo.
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Initiate your Venmo app on your phone or computer
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Search for the Association using these prompts:
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Association of Covenant Spiritual Directors (the association’s enrolled name)
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@acsdspiritualdirectors (the association’s enrolled Venmo username)
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If these prompts work as intended, the application should load up a payment page with the Association named as the recipient. You should see admin@eccacsd.org as the contact email address.
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On the ‘Payment’ screen, you input the desired amount to transfer
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On the ‘Payment’ screen, add a short description in the memo box:
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‘2025 dues from [put your name here]’
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Hit the ‘Send’ button and you are done
This ‘old-school’ method is available, and may be helpful for those members who are paying association dues directly from their Church or want to pay in another currency. The association is able to deposit foreign currency checks, with the bank converting funds to USD. Simply send the fx value that would ordinarily convert to the dues amount you are wanting to pay, given our 2025 sliding scale dues model.
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Make out a check to ‘Association of Covenant Spiritual Directors’
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Enclose a note or memo line on check:
‘2025 dues from [put your name here]’
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Mail check to this address:
ACSD c/o Bruce MacMahon
2741 S. Goshen Way
Boise, ID 83709
This platform is more of a ‘last resort’ option. It supports on-line payments, including payments via credit cards and accommodates foreign currency transactions. The reason this is a last resort though, is that the receiving bank will be my own personal account that I use for travel, and it has very little operating funds in it, so as to reduce risk. I use it when I travel overseas and only load it with very short-term travel funds. I will watch for association activity on the PayPal platform, and remit those funds monthly to my travel account, and then send the lump sum on to the Chase ACSD account. If you have a PayPal account, simply follow these steps:
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Initiate your PayPal app on your phone or computer
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Select the ‘Send Money’ option
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Search for the Association using this prompt:
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admin@eccacsd.org Spiritual Directors (the association’s enrolled email address)
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On the ‘Payment’ screen, input the amount you are paying, and add a short description in the memo box:
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‘2025 dues from [put your name here]’
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Hit the ‘Next’ button and you are done