How to suggest to our church that they should accept Bitcoin payments? A little bit of context: I send 10% of my profit (the tithe) to a church. Along with the tithe I send money for different projects.

I guess they can be considered donations.
This church is a non-profit organization.



Recently I started to get profit in Bitcoin (weekly, I'm paid in Bitcoins for the work I do). It's not a small amount. Now, obviously, the next idea that came in mind was: how do I send the tithe now?

Since this non-profit does accept other currencies (such as EUR, USD etc) I think it would be a good reason to accept Bitcoin too. Currently it doesn't and I didn't talked to them about this.

I'm beginner in understanding Bitcoin, but I know the basics. Most of them are non-technical people and I believe it will be very hard for them to understand how this works. I have to admit I had a lot of questions I had to find answers for as well.

What would be the reasons I should present them to support my plan: sending Bitcoins to this non-profit?



Some things I have in mind:


There are quite a few shops that do accept Bitcoins in our country.
It's not controlled by the state or any organization (personally I find this pretty huge, for obvious reasons)
Some other people send to this non-profit even things that are not money (e.g. they work with bees and they get a lot of honey, they can choose to send 10% to the church). I think this is a thing that will help them realize a little bit that Bitcoin is a value as well.
Since they accept other currencies, why won't they accept Bitcoins too?
Related to the previous one: if I'd convert my Bitcoins in other currencies (e.g. EUR), since the Bitcoin value is still changing quickly it won't be a stable thing for both parts


Are these good enough to start with? What others points should I present? Given the context, how can I explain them in simple words how this would help?

From my understanding, they will simply have to create a wallet and share an address with the world.
My best approach would be to show them coinbase.com or xcoins.io or gemini.com and show them how its similar to a bank account. They can log in and check their balance or withdraw to a bank account directly from their wallet.

Tell them that Bitcoin + Coinbase is less costly compared to PayPal: With Coinbase the church can create its own donation button for its website and accept up to $1 million in transactions with no fees (and only 1% after that, compared to PayPal's 2.9% + 30¢/transact. fees). Of course if they accept Bitcoin without any intermediary like Coinbase, there wouldn't even be a 1% fee, either.

Really they're probably not going to know what your talking about unless you visualize it for them. For example in my xcoins.io account it shows my Bitcoin in a dollar amount too so they could see that and not get confused if you know what I mean.