How do we engage younger people, with Baby Boomers aging out as our primary donors? I wrote a post for my sponsor, OnlineGiving.org, that shares creative ways to accomplish this. Recent reports on the state of giving in America have revealed that engaging younger generations to become motivated to give generously...
With summer over and the Holiday season ahead, your church will be seeing new faces and faces you haven’t seen in a while. How can you motivate them to give and then give continually? This post shares the importance of a plan of action and ideas on how to implement...
Do you have a plan for end-of-year giving? If you are the typical pastor, you are more worried about next Sunday’s sermon. Who thinks of giving at the end of the year in October? The Stewardship Journal! We have all you need with this edition of the Journal. Here is...
The following post is reprinted with permission. 25% to 30% of non-profits annual giving comes in during the last six weeks of the year. In my experience, churches can also see a significant bump in year-end giving if they have and work a plan. A good end-of-year plan must have the...
My Goal for this Playbook “My goal in preaching is for you to come back next week and bring a friend.” I once heard Andy Stanley make that comment at a preaching conference. When it comes to the goal of this playbook, let me borrow that phrase and tweak it a...
Welcome to our final edition on the state of giving in America. One of our goals with the Journal is to give our readers up-to-date information on current studies. Being aware of a decline is a good first step to correcting the decline. This issue will help pastors and church...
Think like a pastor. That’s what I often write on my yellow legal thinking pad as I face each stewardship issue. I ask myself, “If I were still a pastor, what should I do about this information?” I would want to know what this meant for me and my church...
Southern Baptist churches are heading into a crisis that will determine which local churches will survive and which will slowly die. The chart above identifies the ticking time bomb about to explode throughout the Convention. Can you see the problem? Can you do the math? 84% vs. 16%! 84% of the...
As we finish this series on the state of giving to churches, we wanted to provide you with insights on how to address the decline in giving. The following, used by permission, shows how to re-engage those lost donors. Only 32% of your lapsed donors realize they have not given to...
The average evangelical was giving away only 3.2% of household income to either church or charity, and 19% gave not a penny to either over the previous 12 months. 1 That is not the kind of news we like to share, but it is a wakeup call for pastors and...
