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Beginning today, gifts to Elizabeth City Evangelical Methodist Church can be made through an easy and secure online portal via the church’s website at ecityemc.org/giving.php. Through a partnership with Church Community Builder (churchcommunitybuilder.com) and BluePay (bluepay.com) – leaders in church management software and technology-enabled payment processing – we are offering this service to make giving to the church easier and more convenient than ever before.

Why Online Giving?

Times are changing. Many people never carry a checkbook or write a check. Many others seldom ever carry cash. Today’s tech-savvy generation shops online and pays bills online, so giving online makes a lot of sense. It is faster, easier, and safer than writing checks, because electronic gifts are instant and cannot be lost or stolen. With the ability to set up recurring gifts, scheduled monthly giving is simple, and if you give through our secure login portal you can easily access your giving history with a single click.

Online Giving Options

We are offering two ways to give online:

• Recurring gifts – Those who attend EMC regularly have the option to log into our church management software, CCB. Once signed in, users can access the Giving portal from the menu on the lefthand side of the screen. By logging into CCB users have the ability to:
  • Schedule gifts in advance
  • Set up automatically recurring gifts
  • Use their checking account as the giving source (instead of a credit or debit card)
  • Access their complete giving history
  • Download giving statements

  Logging into CCB’s secure network environment also offers an additional layer of security to the electronic giving process.

• One-time gifts – Those who wish to give a one-time gift without the need to sign into CCB may give via the public giving portal, however they will not have access to the additional features available through signing in mentioned above.

Both options for giving online are safe and secure and allow you to designate how you want your gift/s to be applied.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the online giving option, please contact EMC today and we will happily assist you.

EMC will be collecting Operation Christmas Child drop-offs during the following hours:

 
Please use the kitchen door on the far side of the chapel complex. See the Campus Map for reference.

For more information, call our toll free number at 1-800-597-6775. Locally, call 252-333-4055 or 252-264-2254 x.202.

Thank you for participating in the Operation Christmas Child shoebox ministry!

Pages for individual sermons series have been updated to include a listing of all podcast episodes for each respective series. Episodes from each series can now be streamed directly from the series page. This will make it even easier for you to find the episodes you are looking for from each sermon series preached at EMC.

We are currently in the process of migrating our sermon podcast into our new website. This is a lengthy process that should take some time to complete. We will be migrating episodes beginning with the newest first. If you need access to older episodes, please visit the old podcast page that has our complete archives at http://ecityemc.sermon.tv.

Welcome to the new website of Elizabeth City EMC! Our desire is to provide information about who we are, what it is we do, and how you can get plugged into the life of our church. Our approach was to create a user-friendly website with a clean, elegant design that looks and works great on any device, from desktops to smartphones. Take a moment to explore some of the new features below.

Fresh, Clean Design

We have designed the interface to be clean, attractive, and elegant while maintaining a high level of functionality and simplicity. Pages are never crowded with unnecessary objects. Menus are simple and non-intrusive. Colors and textures are pleasant, tasteful, and contemporary while the text is set for optimal legibility. We expect the site is as pleasant to look at as it is easy to navigate.

Big is Beautiful

When our visitors first come to the homepage they will be immediately met with large, attractive images that communicate something important about what’s going on here at our church. The Events page presents our church life in a graphical layout that is easy to scroll through. Nearly every page contains iconography that subtly directs people to where they want to go. Every page is enhanced to make browsing simple and enjoyable.

Primary Navigation

At the top of every page is a list of links for the major divisions of the website.

• About Us: Discover what it is that makes us unique and learn about who we are, where we’ve come from, and what we’re all about.
• Ministries: Learn about the many ministries Elizabeth City EMC has to offer children and adults of every age.
• Events: Find out all that is happening in the life of our church and easily synchronize your calendar with ours.
• Resources: Enjoy unlimited access to a whole range of content, such as the latest church news, regular articles and devotional thoughts on our pastors’ blog, our weekly sermon podcast, and more.
• Contact: Easily reach out and connect with any one of our church offices and friendly, accessible staff.
• Giving: Invest in the work of God’s Kingdom through the ministries of our church and contribute to our mission of making disciples of Christ.

Secondary Navigation

Within each major division of the website can be found a variety of pages containing useful content relevant to that area. To help you keep track of where you are and get to where you want to go you will find a secondary navigation menu on the right.

Our goal from the beginning was to implement a design that makes it as easy as possible for you to find exactly what you are looking for and get there as quickly as possible.

Dedicated Search

At the top of every page is a dedicated search bar for whenever you simply cannot find what you’re looking for. Just type in your request and hit ‘enter’ and you will instantly be taken to a search result page. Our search engine is constantly crawling and indexing our entire website, ensuring that you find exactly what you’re looking for in the blink of an eye.

Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Design

Mobile devices have overtaken desktops as the primary way people interact with the Internet. We have gone to great lengths to ensure that no matter what device you are using, our website is both fast and beautiful. Browsing on a laptop? Resize your browser and watch how seamlessly the objects on each page reposition to suit your viewing window. Browsing with an iPad? View the site in either portrait or landscape – it doesn’t matter. From widescreens to smartphones, we have designed with the modern end-user in mind.

There’s so much more for you to discover yourself, and we are always open to hearing feedback. Dive into the new EMC and let us know what you think.