From the Desk of Our Executive Director
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! Don’t miss our lead post! Our team had an idea to interview my friend, Dr. Willie McLaurin, about his new role as serving as the interim president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee. Dr. McLaurin shared some incredible insights into his personal walk and how that has prepared him […]
There Is No I in Team
How is March Madness going for your team? March Madness is a term that has become synonymous with the NCAA basketball tournament played every March. It comes from the fact that many games end in crazy maddening ways. There are also lots of upsets that add to the, well, madness. This makes predicting the winner […]
The Essential Tools for an Easter Digital Giving Strategy
We all know that Easter is the church’s best-attended day of the year. You might not know that Easter is typically a strong offering day. At least Easter used to be a strong offering day, when every chair or pew was filled with warm bodies. This playbook will show you how to assure a great […]
A Practical Guide to Your Best Easter Offering
Are you running a bit behind in giving? Would you like to increase giving to assure those summer initiatives are fully funded? How about seeing some new donors start contributing? A successful Easter offering will accomplish all the above. I’m in week two of a series on Easter offering planning. This week I want to […]
This Easter, Let’s Change the Conversation About Money
Won’t a focus on the offering for Easter turn guests away? That is probably the biggest pushback for any discussion emphasizing giving this Easter. We have been talking about preparing for the Easter offering for the past few editions. We thought it would be good to share a few principles on emphasizing giving this Easter […]
From the Desk of Our Executive Director
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! This Easter Let’s Change the Conversation About Money. That is the title of our lead post. For the past few issues of the Journal, we have been focusing on Easter offering planning. Some might question putting any focus on the offering as this is typically our highest attended day. Yet, […]
How to Become a Saint!
Do we have any Irish here? How about online? This week is St. Patrick’s Day. Have you ever wondered who was Patrick and what did he do to become a saint? According to The History Channel, Patrick came from wealth. Early in his life, he was kidnapped by Irish Raiders and held for years against […]
The Why Vision Worksheet
I produced a playbook called The Successful Easter Giving Plan. You can find out how to get a copy at https://acts17generosity.com/store/. Here is my Vision Worksheet from the current edition. After deciding what the focus of your Resurrection Offering will be, use the following points as a guide for developing the story of that mission […]
Making the Case for Easter Offering Planning
Easter is six weeks away, and I have about six seconds to keep your attention. So, how about this? Reading this Coach will help you raise your largest Easter offering ever and add new donors. Need more convincing? Here is what one pastor emailed me after using my Easter giving playbook: “We followed your Easter […]
Let’s Make Your Easter Offering Special
It’s time to start thinking about Easter, the Easter offering that is. We are starting a mini-series focusing on the Easter offering. In this first Journal of the series, we want to make our case for thinking, planning, and praying for Easter on April 17th. Covid taught us that the offering is no longer confined […]