Give and manage gifts with the giving assistant

The giving assistant is a chat helper for giving. It can prepare a one-time or recurring gift, total what you've given, and change, pause or cancel a recurring gift. Nothing is charged or changed until you approve it on your dashboard, and you only ever pay on Stripe's secure page.

Open it

1. Sign in. The assistant is free for every signed-in member; you don't need a paid plan.
2. Go to /giving and click Ask the giving assistant, or open /concierge?agent=giving.
3. You'll see Giving assistant with a few starters, such as "Set up a monthly gift to my church", "How much did I give in 2026?" and "Pause my recurring gift".

What you can ask it

• Find where to give. It finds organizations accepting gifts on Christian.com by name, with their funds and their "Where your gift goes" statement.
• Prepare a gift. Once, weekly, monthly or yearly, to the organization's general giving or to one of its funds, with or without covering card processing.
• Total your giving. By year and by organization, from the gifts you made while signed in, with a link to the year's statement.
• List your recurring gifts.
• Change a recurring gift. New amount or frequency, pause, resume or cancel.

Approve what it prepares

1. When the assistant prepares a gift or a change, it says so in the chat. Nothing has happened yet.
2. Go to your dashboard and find the Approvals panel: "Nothing an assistant proposes is carried out until you approve it here."
3. Open the request and expand What exactly will happen to check the organization, amount and frequency.
4. Click Approve, Deny or Cancel request. You can add an optional note.
5. For a new gift, approving takes you to Stripe's secure checkout to pay. When you're done you come back to /giving, and Stripe emails your receipt. For a change to a recurring gift, approving carries it out right away.

What it won't do

• It never asks for, accepts or repeats card numbers or bank details. If you type them in the chat, it will tell you not to.
• It describes an organization's use of gifts only from what the organization published. If there's nothing published, it says so.
• It answers giving totals only from your recorded gifts. It doesn't estimate, and it isn't tax advice.
• It can't manage gifts made without signing in, and it can't update the card on a recurring gift.

Good to know

• Changing a recurring gift's frequency restarts its schedule today, and the first gift on the new schedule is charged today. The assistant tells you before you approve.
• A gift must be between $1 and $25,000.
• Your messages with the assistant count toward the concierge's daily message allowance.
• More on each task: Set up a recurring gift, Give to a specific fund, Change, pause or cancel a recurring gift.