ATM for GOD?

He realized the church was leaving money on the table and researched to find a company that had the technology to allow someone to donate with their bank card in church, but found none.

“Everybody said, ‘That’s a great idea, but we don’t do it,’” Baker says.

Inspiration kicks in
In June 2004, he decided his church needed the technology, so he gathered a team of developers and went to work to create a “giving kiosk.” After nine months, Baker set up his first kiosk outside the church’s chapel. It took in about $100,000 that first year. After adding improvements to the machine — one of which was a pin pad — a second edition was rolled out in January of 2006. Two kiosks took in just more than $200,000 for the church that year, with average gifts of more than $100.