Yes, You Can Go Back!

You can’t go back. Within weeks of the pandemic arriving in the U.S., we began hearing Evangelical leaders writing and speaking on this subject. A Christianity Today article on May 22, 2020, summed up this view best by saying, “Most of the “what ifs” we’re dealing with are about what the latest health department limitations […]
From the Desk of Our Executive Director

Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. In this issue, we continue with a focus on end-of-year planning and giving. Our desire is to help you close out this year strong and position you for a great start to the New Year. Here is a preview of this week’s Stewardship Journal. What has been […]
Give a Gift That Lasts

I saw a study that reported the following about our Christmas shopping habits: How many of you are finished with your Christmas shopping? How many of you haven’t even started? This year, Americans will spend about $1,000 on Christmas. Here is my question. How many of those gifts will last? Few of the gifts we […]
End-of-Year Email Samples

Non-profits will collect as much as 25% of their annual budget in the last few days of the year. Use the following emails to reap a giving harvest for your church. Pre-Christmas Email Blast to be sent out on December 19. Subject line: $886 versus $200; which is it? Dear Friend of Community Church, How […]
You’ll Never Be Financially Stable If …

“Every week, we talk about the same problems over and over again and again, and yet we never do anything about them.” My Student Pastor said that in a staff meeting one Monday morning. He then got up and left my office. Around the same time, I put my then teenage son on the board […]
What is Your Over/Under Split?

“I took your advice and broke down our donors by age and discovered that 84% of our donors are 50 in age and above!” That was the start of an email from a Business Administrator in an SBC church in the Southeast. He then attached a pie chart of their church’s giving by age, seen […]
From the Desk of Our Executive Director

Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal, and welcome to the last month of the year. Our focus for the next few weeks will be to help you end the calendar year in a strong financial position and prepare you for the New Year. I wanted to share that we will be continuing to […]