Welcome To Planning Center Giving!

We are making a move, along with the other Grace Family Churches, from our current donor management software (Arena) to Planning Center Giving starting next week October 19, 2022. Planning Center has already served as our primary volunteer scheduling, event registration, Kidtown check in, and house church group communication/connection tool since 2019 and we are excited to bring all aspects of your engagement with the church under one system.

I’m sure this will come with some questions so please take a look below and hopefully we can answer them.

What about my past giving data and statements?

Your historical giving data and privacy are safe and remaining our priority through the transition. We are working with a trusted third party organization who has migrated many churches from their previous systems over to Planning Center and have extensive experience navigating these migrations. All historical donation data (from 2018 - present) will be migrated over to Planning Center Giving and linked with your Planning Center profile starting October 30, 2022 and should be accessible within 30 days of import.

Do I need to create a Planning Center Profile?

If you currently don’t have a planning center profile at Grace Midtown Church, don’t worry, we will be creating one for you when we migrate the data over. You will be able to access your donation history, giving statements, and create/modify/cancel recurring payments here. If you’d prefer to create a profile, please go here: https://gracemidtown.churchcenter.com/home

You will receive a welcome email shortly after the migration and we would encourage you to log in (simply using your phone number) and check that all basic information is correct.

What about my recurring gift?

If you are a recurring giver, via credit card or ACH, our current donation gateway will be kept open for those gifts throughout the end of the year without interruption. We will be reaching out to all recurring givers through the end of the year and will be working with you to set up your gift on Planning Center before the end of the year. We appreciate your generosity and if you’d like to speed up the process, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Visit https://gracemidtown.churchcenter.com/giving to set up your recurring gift on the new system.

Step 2: Visit https://mymidtown.gfc.tv/ and log into our previous system to end your current recurring gift. *This page will link to Planning center starting 10/18/22 so if you don’t get around to it before then, don’t worry, go ahead and set up your gift using Step 1 and we will take care of ending your gift on the previous platform.

For more questions, email midtownfinance@gfc.tv.