A Window into the Thinking of the FUUSE Music Committee

The Music Committee’s main goal is to provide a dynamic music program in our sanctuary each Sunday. Other goals this year have included more congregational responses, a variety of types of music, growing the number of both full and part time choir members, weekly choir rehearsals, and incorporating the musical talent of our congregation and invited guests. We invite you to click on the link below to read the full text of our thinking and planning since summer 2017. In the link you will read about:

• Prioritizing a Dynamic FUUSE Music Program
• Learning about FUUSE Music History
• Educating us, and all at FUUSE, of the Visible and Invisible Parts of Music at FUUSE
• Taking Time to Dream of the Future
• The Seen and Unseen Roles of a Music Minister at FUUSE
• Next Steps for the Music Committee
• Assistance We Ask of Our FUUSE Community    

The Music Committee plans to meet once a month if anyone is interested in joining or attending.  Please feel free to contact Nancy Fiske at choir@exeteruu.org, if you have an idea or question.

Please click here to read the document in its entirety. 

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

FUUSE periodically generates your Giving Statement, showing your tax-deductible contributions to FUUSE during the year. These are now available through our Elvanto Church Management System (ChMS, pronounced "chums"). You can download your own most recent Giving Statement from your profile when you are logged in.

To log in, in your internet browser go to fuuse.elvanto.net, and press the "Login" button at the upper right.

If you have never logged in, or if you do not know your password, click "I forgot my password." 

Once you are logged in, your name will appear at the upper right, where the "Log In" button used to be. Click your name to pull down the menu, and choose "Profile."

Your profile appears in a box at the left, under the word "Me." Find the dollar sign and the word "Giving", and click or tap there to see your personal and private giving information.

On your giving page, and depending on your past giving, you may see three sections: "Latest Giving Statement", "Latest Pledge", and "Latest Transactions." You can click "Download" to get your own copy of your statement. Each of the three sections also has a "View All" button. Tap it to see more than just your most recent statement, pledge, or transaction. 

Online giving "Transactions" are recorded almost as soon as you execute them. Checks and cash transactions may not be entered into the system until a week or two later.

If you believe there are any errors in your statement or your giving records, please communicate with Yvonne, the Office Manager, office@exeteruu.org, 603-772-4002.

Logging in for the First Time

If you have filled out a "blue card" or are an active friend or member of FUUSE, your profile -- errors and omissions and all -- has probably already been set up in our Church Management System (Elvanto ChMS). We want you to log in, review it, and correct and improve it. 

To log in for the first time, click "Log In" at the upper right, and then click "forgot password?" and follow the prompts. This won't work if your email address is not already set up in our database. So alternatively, you could send an email to webmaster@exeteruu.org, saying that you want to log in and review your FUUSE ChMS (pronounced "chums") profile. Either way, you will get an email (be patient, it might take a few hours) with some "getting started" directions and a "link" that will allow you to create your own password. 

Facebook or Google Login

You may have a question about the ability to "Link" ChMS to your Facebook or Google account.

According to the discussions in the ChMS forum, nothing gets posted to Facebook from the FUUSE ChMS. That's just a mechanism to make life easier for people who may be logged into Facebook already, but would be challenged or just annoyed by yet another login and password for FUUSE. It lets them validate their identity on the ChMS through their Facebook identification. FUUSE ChMS will then try to pick up your name or picture from Facebook.

If you are a user of GMail or Google Calendar, you can also use your login to Google to connect you with fuuse.elvanto.net. 

In either case, for best results the email address for you in the FUUSE Membership database should be the same one that you used in your Facebook or Google profile.

Send any questions or report any problems to webmaster@exeteruu.org

Bill