Churches

Churches that affiliate with GWRegistry™ can be both the beneficiary and driver of Charity. What can GWRegistry™ offer to churches that already have a Memorial Garden?

 

· Can you build your endowments stronger? Can we direct new Donations or Members your way?

· Can you reach out to your community better? Those not members of your faith or congregation.

· Can you help save your local family owned funeral home from dominate mega-Corporations?

· Can you help support your church budget with more effective use of your church facilities?

· Can you make GardenWays™ Registry better with your own ideas?

· What can we offer if the church is close to failing?

 

GWRegistry™ continues to find and pinned “gardens” and is registering new Affiliates with DPAs™ all the time. GWRegistry™ “Made it Better” to find, reveal, remember and visit Placement of ashes than FindaGrave® was at finding these places. Making things better is a fundamental Goal.

 

Today’s society is filled with Multi-generational, Multi-faith, Multi-ethic blended family relationships. …Sadly even “Kinless” relationships. These groups often prefer communities of faith for Weddings and Funerals. Churches can adapt Funeral liturgies to accommodate those outside of their own congregation or faith. Churches will find they don’t need to place people in their Memorial Garden on their property.

 

The going rate for Cremation Plots, Columbariums, and Mausoleums is $1-2,000. It’s just the lack of Common Sense if churches aren’t building their endowments (that help maintain their Gardens) on par. Opportunities that employ GWRegistry™ methods and practices are even greater.

 

Encourage Charity. Don’t add to the predatory practices that are out there. Be the organization they trust. Live up to ethical standards. Don’t break the personal relationship that AI machines are destroying. Token use of Ashes in liturgies and Transfer DPA™ methods allow for visitation at the point of a Service and final placement of the ashes elsewhere. Not having a DPA on your own property is a GWRegistry™ method. Bundle your services with those that do.

 

Aligning with GWRegistry™ is good business because we are committed to the same standards. It opens opportunities to provide services to segments of our society outside of your specific congregation. Churches don’t have a corner on Memorial Gardens. Churches extend their impact within the community with GWRegistry™. Aligning with GWRegistry™ does not increase regulatory obligations in any way.

 

Multiple services of remembrance can accommodate lifelong individuals of their congregation that followed their kids to a far off state. Once a church membership criterion is/was satisfied, a Garden Side service can be performed when their ashes “come home”. Multi-Point Cremation Placement is a GWRegistry™ method that makes all things possible (and all things known when recorded in a GWDoc™).

 

Bundle packages with Funeral Homes and/or restaurants. Let the funeral home host a traditional receiving line. Let churches host a reception after a more traditional funeral. Let restaurants host a dinner if the family prefers. Do all three! Don’t compete. People pay their respects in different ways. Make it easy for the family in times of grief when they are most vulnerable.