The good news is giving is up. The bad news is the recovery is slow. Giving USA released their 2012 review on charitable giving proclaiming that while giving is increasing to charities it is doing so at a slow rate of 1.5%. They project that it will take six...
Learn MoreConsider these amazing facts… Facebook has 1.11 billion users worldwide. YouTube has 1 billion users. Twitter has 500 million users. Instagram has 100 million users. Pinterest has 48.7 million users....
Learn MoreIf your annual campaign is failing the fault might not be with annual campaigns but your approach. I hear a lot from churches about how their annual campaign for giving is not seeing the results they once saw. I can help you correct that decline in pledges and...
Learn MoreGiving to the church is in a slow steady decline in America. Despite what most people think it is not the result of the economy. Don’t believe the surveys out there as they are based upon emotion and feelings and not facts. The fact is that the best source...
Learn MoreI believe the number one reason why giving to the Church is in decline is that we have failed to make a case for why people should give! Most preaching on giving is what I call, “Ought to Preaching.” We tell people they ought to give and never give them...
Learn MoreVerizon Wireless will pay $1 Billion dollars for the rights to air more NFL games over its customers’ smartphones reported the Wall Street Journal! What this means is if your sermon goes long on Sunday your members will be pulling out their smartphones so they...
Learn MoreSocial Media is a great tool to increase awareness of what your church is doing this summer AND increase giving to support those missions and ministries. Consider that the following stats… Facebook: 1.06 billion monthly active users, 680 million mobile users,...
Learn MoreMost churches mess up the offering time and thus struggle to raise the funds they need to do the ministry they have in their hearts. Even churches that make budget still under perform far beyond their capability and it comes back simply to the way the offering is...
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The numbers just did not add up. A few years back I was working with a church that was struggling financially, yet their giving was strong. They shouldn’t have been struggling to make budget. I remember telling the pastor that I thought he should get an audit. He...
Learn MoreOne of the major reasons church giving is in decline is that we often ask for gifts in a way that causes failure rather than success. Our “ask” leads to failure. Let me explain by giving you two examples. A couple of years ago in the midst of the...
Learn More“You can pay me now or you can pay me later.” That line from a Fram Oil Filter ad in 1981 went viral. The essence was a guy talking about how you needed to change your oil regularly and put in a new Fram oil filter. He was standing in front of a...
Learn MoreThe offering is the most boring time in the typical church. One reason why is so little thought and planning goes into it. I actually had a staff member tell me once that the offering interupted the flow of worship and irritated her. That view while not openly...
Learn MoreThe title of this post says it all, it’s almost too late to avoid the slump in summer giving! Almost, but not quite. You still have time but the clock is ticking. Summer is upon us. Traditionally summer kicks off with the start of Memorial Day. Pools...
Learn More68% of American church members reported that they had not heard a sermon on the relationship between faith and personal finances in the previous year! Robert Wuthnow discovered that fact in a study a few years ago. Wuthnow stated in his report that, “clergy...
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Here is a news flash, its 2013 not 1990. Sadly in many churches across America you would not know that on a typical Sunday morning. As I always say, Sunday morning at 11 AM is the one time you can actually do time travel for most services look and feel the way they...
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012
