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There are several ways you can contribute financially to Servants vision to see the urban poor and their communities transformed by Christ. Servants offices are fully staffed by volunteers and overheads are kept to a minimum in keeping with our commitment to simplicity.
1. Donations to Servants, including specific project funds or support of individual missionaries* may be made by cheque through any of our home offices, simply noting the purpose of your gift. Gifts made in many countries are tax deductible. Contact your nearest office or email us for further information.
2. Donations can now be made using any major credit card, from anywhere in the world and will be processed by Paypal. (PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits, the highest level commercially available. You can rest assured your sensitive information will be protected.)
For more information about the charitable status and preferred methods of receiving donations please click on the appropriate country below.
Servants is a registered charity in Canada and issues tax receipts for donations. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a cheque (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to our office or online through Canada Helps. If you give online you will receive a tax receipt directly from Canada Helps. If you wish to give on a monthly basis our preferred method is an atuomatic deduction from your bank account which is set up by sending us a VOID cheque with instructions. This allows us to keep our administration expenses to a minimum. No administration fee is taken out of donations to Servants projects and 100% of your gift will be sent to the field. Servants is a registered charity in the UK. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a cheque (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to our office or online through Charity Choice. Be sure to sign up for Gift Aid which allows your donation to go even further. If you donate online please send an email to the UK office outlining the purpose for which the money is given. No administration fee is taken out of donations to Servants projects and 100% of your gift will be sent to the field. Servants is an approved 501(c)3 public charity in the USA and all donations are tax deductible. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a check (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to our U.S. office. For regular monthly support of Servants missionaries or projects, our preferred method is an automatic deduction (authorized by you) from your bank account each month. To authorize this, please download and fill
in this form and send it to the U.S. office.
Our application for tax exemption and our annual information returns are available for public inspection in accordance with IRS regulations. If you desire a copy of the application and/or returns, please send your request to our U.S. Financial Coordinator (george [at] servantsasia.org) and include your email address and postal address. Reimbursement for mailing and copying costs is helpful."
You can also make donations via Paypal or credit card:
Servants is an incorporated not-for-profit association in Queensland. We are presently not registered for Deductible Gift Recipient status therefore cannot issue tax receipts. However we partner with Global Development Group who provide tax receipts for the 'Big Brothers and Big Sisters' project in Cambodia, and 'Lilok Organic Farm' project in The Philippines. Other projects are currently in the process of obtaining tax deductibility status. There are 3 options for giving to the work of Servants through the Australian office:
1. Direct Deposit (contact this office for bank details)
2. Send a cheque to the Servants National office in Brisbane (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'')
3. By Credit Card online through PayPal
Servants NZ is currently seeking registering with the Charities Commission. This will ensure that for any donations given for use in NZ you will receive a NZ tax receipt and can claim a rebate back of 33.3%. There is no longer any limit on rebatable donations for individuals, and companies have had the 5% limit removed. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a cheque (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to the Auckland office. Alternatively, using internet banking you can make a donation directly into our bank account below (send details via email as well).
Name of Payee: Servants to Asias UP
Payee’s Account Number: 02 0842 0096408 00
Bank: BNZ
Branch: Cashel & Fitzgerald
SWIFT: BKNZNZ22
Payee Particulars: Your surname and initials
Payee Code: Country to which you wish your donation sent
Payee Reference: Project
Servants is a registered association in Switzerland with tax exemption and issues tax receipts for donations. We will forward 100% of your donation to the fields. Donations to Servants Switzerland can be deducted from federal tax and the tax of some cantons. Servants Switzerland has signed the ethical code of Swiss Evangelical Alliance.
Donations from Switzerland can be sent to the following bank account: PC 80-2-2, UBS AG, CH-8089 Zürich in favour of CH29 0023 3233 9078 4640 J, Servants Switzerland, CH-4054 Basel
* All Servants workers are asked to provide a tithe of the support donations received to support other programs of Servants. This tithe is used to support Servants' Global Vision Fund (6%) and Struggling Workers Fund (1%), and cover local administrative costs (3%).
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