Only 32 percent of American church members reported that they had heard a sermon on the relationship between faith and personal finances in that previous year. Robert Wuthnow who led the study concluded, “clergy often tiptoe around the topic of money as if they were taking a walk through a minefield."
Nothing. That's the N-word that is killing the future of the Church. The majority of churches in America as a result of the pandemic are in a reactionary mode waiting for the next government direction on opening and safety. We now have over a year's worth of experience with COVID-19 but most churches are still in...
12/24/30. That is my focus for you. Plan out the next 12 months. Long-range plan out the next 24 months as things change. Get to 2030 financially stable. My goal is for my client churches to land in the year 2030 with little to no debt and financially sound for the next decade. Because by 2030, most of your Baby...
Unrealistic expectations set back many churches as they begin the process of developing their project and also setting up a campaign to raise the needed funds.
Stewardship firms continue to send out emails that ignore that capital campaigns are different, though not dead. Long before COVID-19 hit our shores capital campaigns were in danger of irrelevancy. Here is a list of some of the major reasons why capital campaigns are not what they used to be.
America is in the midst of a huge shift that demands church leaders get a wake up call for capital campaigns. Times have changed, and sadly as with most things church-related so has our response to capital campaigns. We keep doing what we always have done, expecting things to come out the same and then are shocked when the...
