hours every week on Facebook. So why not give your tithes and offerings
through the social networking site?
That’s the way Horace Nelson, a 36-year-old single father and software developer from Brooklyn, N.Y., sees it.
Nelson developed an app that enables
churches to raise financial support using the emerging “social funding”
model. You might call it a virtual collection plate; Nelson calls it
Faith Funder. His application also lets churches reach beyond their
membership to raise offerings.
“So many places of faith are simply and
unnecessarily underfunded,” Nelson says. “It’s unfortunate, because
there are plenty of people of faith who would gladly give trivial
amounts to these places in need if only they knew how and it was easy
and convenient.”
