Covid19 is the final nail for the traditional capital campaign! Capital campaigns have been around since the mid 20th century. Billions of dollars were raised through capital campaigns primarily for buildings. Now as every church is reevaluating the need for buildings I believe the time has come to finally to bury the traditional campaign. The need...
Taking the 5 E's to a better offering will guarantee that your giving will go up.
You have never faced challenges like you are facing right now and without a plan you will fail.
One sad reality of COVID19 is that churches are dying. The question for you is, will yours survive? Before COVID19 we were already seeing thousands of churches every year close their doors. Estimates range from 6,000 to 10,000 yearly. Even those that question that number will admit to probably around 5,000 a year ceasing to exist....
If you want to improve the amount you take up each week when it comes to the offering, be creative.
When I start working with a church I always begin with how they take up the offering. Why? Your attitude about receiving the offering says everything about how you view biblical stewardship. Here is a true story.During the last crisis, The Great Recession, a top 50 church engaged my services to help them reverse a -3% decline...
"The fastest path to the money." That is a line from a marketing book I am reading, The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib. In his Introduction he starts the first sentence of his book saying, "If I had to summarize the essence of this book in one sentence it would be, "the fastest path to the...
The other day I was thinking about how to connect with churches and I thought, don't make it about you. I had been writing materials, posts, advertising copy and emails. That is when it dawned on me. It was all about me! Buy this, download that, blah blah blah. I thought of a letter a...
34% of churches in a recent LifeWay Research poll reported that giving has decline over 2019. That means, 34% of churches are in trouble! Are you?
This post is essentially the first of what I am calling The Coaches Round Table. I want to create a platform for others to post their thoughts about not only generosity but other issues impacting the Church today. The following post was written by my friend Dr. Jason Bunger the Lead Pastor of Hope Church in Dayton, OHMoving...
