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...
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...
I saw a study that reported the following about our Christmas shopping habits: 60% of US consumers start their Christmas shopping before December. How many of you are in that category? 62% of US shoppers buy gifts in the week before Christmas. How many fit here? 60% of shoppers in the US prefer...
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...
“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...
“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...
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...
A recent survey discovered that the last couple of years has made Americans significantly angrier, sadder, lonelier, and more worried. More than one-third reported feeling these emotions more strongly than before the pandemic. I'm sure we feel this way for multiple reasons, but one leading cause is the News. We...
Tip #1 – Have a plan and work your plan! If you are not planning, you are planning on failure so let's devise a plan. Your plan in a nutshell… Social Media posts from now through December 31st should work to tell your story and how donors make this happen. Each post...
One of the first things Elon Musk did after buying Twitter was laying off thousands of employees. The Left went crazy. Then Meta, formerly known as Facebook, laid off eleven thousand. Soon afterward, Amazon followed suit with layoff announcements totaling 10,000. This morning in the Wall Street Journal, I read...
