Meet the Genius Behind Your Church’s Digital Donations

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – If you give digitally to your church, your favorite charity or nonprofit organization, then you know Wale Mafolasire. Maybe not by name, but his most favorite invention is something you can use on a regular basis: Givelify. Imagine that such an intricate digital application came out of his desire to give and not always having the ready cash or check to make it happen. He tells Word In Black he’d always promise himself to make good on it as soon as he got home. But many times, he just didn’t make it. RELATED: Chicago’s First Woman Bishop Shares Her Journey on ‘Faithfully Speaking’ “And I had to deal with the guilt and the shame of not having fulfilled my promise. I felt like the pastor was looking at me, and everyone knew I was shirking my responsibilities,” he says. After all, his mother taught them to be cheerful in their giving, and to always have a real bible when they went to church. Givelify. His idea. Out of his need. And now you know the rest of the story. But not really. It was a long trek from idea...