Supporting Members Benefits: Access to the Writing Team's professionally edited, volunteer written lesson sets. Access to the Exchange Search Feature, allowing you to do keyword searches through our vast collection. Access to the Email Digest feature... allowing you to receive automatic notifications when someone posts in a forum or to a lesson subject you are watching. The monthly Rotation Coordinator's Email Newsletter... alerting you to new resources at the website, announcing new features, and sharing teaching ideas. Access to the Help I'm Looking for --forum and "Help I'm New to Rotation and..." where you can ask other members for help with finding resources, lesson plans, ideas and troubleshooting. Access to current and future online and downloadable Flash training presentations. Access to The Rotation Lounge ...where members share their stories, frustrations, prayers, and solutions, and other private topic forums. And several other features. Guests and Registered-members will receive an invitation to join when they try to access Contributing Member-only areas. Help with Member Registrations, Renewals, Cancellations Supporting Member RENEWALS arrive about a week before your annual membership expires. Please continue your support! If you are having trouble with completing the Membership Process, or believe you are already a Supporting Member but are having trouble with access, please read our TECH FORUM in the Exchange (http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/cfrm/f/927106134). If your question is not answered there, post a question in that forum. If you selected "automatic renewal" when you originally signed up, the LiveCloud/SitePay service will charge your cc on file and notify you. For help renewing, go to Supporting Member Help Forum in the Exchange   Why the change? In the past, Rotation.org was supported by free-will donations in response to our annual emailed fundraising letter. But as we've grown, and as expenses have gone up, that passive donation model simply hasn't kept up with the site's growth, its cost, and the vision. In February of 2010, we emailed every registered member of the Exchange asking them to voice their opinion in an online forum or by email. The OVERWHELMING majority of replies supported the idea of turning on the Contributing Member feature. In fact, it became an out-pouring of support and words of appreciation! And many people told us that enabling the online membership feature would make it easier for them to do what they had always intended to do... support the site. MOST of the free lesson content on our Exchange message board continues to be fully accessible to unregistered visitors and guest.  But some of our finest resources and personalized help are only available to people who understand the importance of being part of this community in a special way. For technical help regarding your membership, go to the TECH FORUM in the Exchange at (http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/cfrm/f/927106134) To see a list of all the churches and individuals who have been paying the bills and bringing you this website, go to www.rotation.org/report.htm Sign up to become a Supporting Member Now! (http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/premium)   If you have problems with signing up or becoming a Supporting Member, or accessing the Supporting Member content... go to our Support Forum  http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/cfrm/f/927106134

Rotation.org Membership Info In 2010 your volunteer board turned on the "Supporting Member" feature in the  Ideas and Lesson Exchange message board. Since then, it's been a HUGE success, funding our annual budget and allowing us to focus on content. MOST of the lessons & content in the Lesson Exchange remain freely available to all. There are 3 levels of access to the Rotation Exchange message boards and lessons: 1. Guests:  Guests are anonymous/unregistered visitors with access to most of the lessons, but with limited access to certain features in the Exchange. Guests cannot access the Writing Team's lesson sets, cannot use the Search feature, and cannot create/reply content. Guests are not required to register. Guests can become a Registered Member for FREE by going to the Exchange Community Page at http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve and clicking the LOG IN link to begin the registration process.  After you create a log in and confirm your email address, you're a Registered Member! ...and can become a Supporting Member. (see details below).  2. Registered Members: Registered Members create a username and password to log-in to the Exchange and gain general access to most forums and lesson content, including posting/reply privileges, and access to the search features. However, some features and content will not accessible unless you elect to become a Supporting Member. This is free. If you have a working username and password, then you are already a Registered Member. 3. Supporting Members: This category of membership costs $25 a year and gives you COMPLETE access to all content and features, including the Search Feature, as well as, access to certain forums such as the HELP forums, and access to ALL the Writing Team lesson sets (see full list Supporting Member benefits on left). Social Strata is the company which runs our Exchange Servers. We have contracted with their SitePay service to give you a secure way of making your Support Membership payment. You can choose a one year membership, and you can also choose to have that one year membership automatically renew. PLEASE CHOOSE CAREFULLY. Supporting Members use Social Strata's SitePay membership forms and secure transaction process to pay their membership fee. This fee then gets remitted to Rotation.org Inc. See the graphic below for more info about that. Then, each year on your anniversary, an email will come from SitePay reminding you to update your CC info on file, asking you if you want to renew, or telling you that they are about to charge your CC again per your automatic renewal instructions. If you encounter a problem with this process, go to the Support Forum for help. Become a Supporting Member Now! (http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/premium) The cost of becoming a Supporting Member is $25 --payable with your creditcard when you sign up. We have contracted with the Exchange Message Board's "SitePay" service to handle the transactions. There is also a $2 "Sitepay" transaction fee which does not go to rotation.org. When creating your SitePay transaction account, please remember to WRITE DOWN your username and password that you will create with SitePay to manage your cc transaction. Rotation.org will not have that info. To begin... 1)  Go to the Community Page at http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve and LOG IN with your Rotation username and password that you've already created. 2) Then...scroll down to the bottom of the page to complete the Supporting Member/Premium access process with Sitepay. If you are a "guest" ...having never registered before, you'll need to FIRST become a Registered Member, then log-in, then complete the Supporting Member process. Don't worry...the website forms will lead you through the process!   Rotation.org's accounting is handled by volunteers, thus we have a strong preference for folks to use their creditcard to become a Supporting Member. You can send a check but this should be the method of last resort. Email the Rotation.org Treasurer for details. Walking you through it....   More Sign-up Details: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU USE THE RIGHT EMAIL ADDRESS as your USERNAME when signing up for your SitePay account. LiveCloud/SitePay screen automatically pulls the email address you used to first register with Rotation.org (prior to becoming a Supporting Member). It puts that email address in as the 'username' for LiveCloud/SitePay. If that email address has changed, then you need to go into your Registered Member Profile and change the email address there, then come back to the LiveCloud/SitePay screen. To access your profile and change your email contact, go to http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/personal and select "Profile" and check the "change email" box. Supporting Members will receive a special "member" icon next to their screenname when they post. You may choose to create one sign-in/membership for your congregation's volunteers.  Become a Supporting Member Now! (http://rotation.infopop.cc/eve/premium)