The Why Vision Worksheet
The Why Vision Worksheet – We are weeks away from Easter and you need to have the “ask” of your offering nailed down ASAP! Here is my vision worksheet to help you craft your vision. After deciding what the focus of your Resurrection Offering will be, use the following points as a guide for developing […]
The 3.0 Church
Are you ready for Church 3.0? James Emery White has a new book out entitled Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church in a Post-Christian Digital Age. Here is a quote from an email his organization sent out. It is time to put forward a simple but provocative thesis: the church must respond to the new reality […]
The 24-Hour Offering
How was attendance last Sunday? If you are the typical church, your attendance is 85% of what it was pre-Covid. 67% of Americans reported attending church at least once a year, down from 75% before the pandemic, is what the Survey Center on American Life and the University of Chicago research found about attendance in […]
From the Desk of Our Executive Director
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. Are you ready for Church 3.0? James Emery White in his new book, Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church in a Post-Christian Digital Age, uses this term to describe the church of the 21st century. Like it or not, we are in a new day that requires new […]
What Questions You Should Be Asking
What questions about giving should you be asking? If I were a pastor heading into another quarter of the year here is what I would be asking… Those are a few questions I would be asking. Hopefully, this will create even more questions for you. The point of the questions is to cause us to […]
The Value is in the Question
How is giving going after the first two months of the year? Are you ahead or behind?That is the question that I ask my clients. It’s the first question I think about but often the last question a church ever thinks about. Frankly, most churches don’t think about that at all. It is time we […]
Asking the Wrong Question
Cooperative Program giving is not increasing because you have made it all about you. That will be my opening statement on April 25th when I address CP/Stewardship leaders from each State Convention of the SBC. I plan on pausing for dramatic effect and then continuing with this story. That was the comment I made to […]
From the Desk of Our Executive Director
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. Are you asking the right questions when it comes to stewardship and generosity? We are asking that question in this edition of the Stewardship Journal. Mark Brooks, The Stewardship Coach, leads off this edition by sharing how we first approached Mark in the fall of 2021, asking […]
Are You Ready for Spring?
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! I’ve written hundreds of talks for the offering time, and I do this to help you elevate the offering time. To simplify and better meet your needs, starting in March, I will be moving away from posting weekly talks to the Stewardship Coach/Stewardship Journal newsletter. Instead, I will be providing links to all […]
Gratitude Idea Section
My column at the start of this week’s Coach talked about establishing a Culture of Gratitude. Expressing thanks to your donors is one key way of doing this. A few years back, my wife asked if I wanted to see how non-profits treated their donors. She held in her hand a nice card from a […]