Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. We have been focusing on setting up a summer giving plan to help you avoid any slump in giving. We start this edition of the Journal with our lead post, Why May is a Good Time to Focus on Recurring Giving. According to...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. Are you on social media? According to our lead post, How Social Media Can Advance Your Summer Missions, 59% of the world's population uses social media.The average daily usage of social media is 2 hours and 31 minutes. With that kind of usage, it...
This issue is focused on helping you increase your recurring giving. We thought it might be helpful to ask, is online giving biblical? Of course, online giving isn’t mentioned in the Bible. How can we answer the question then? Just because you cannot find online giving mentioned in the Bible doesn’t...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. How is your Annie Armstrong going? Most of our churches are in the final days of promoting the offering. I often found that the best time to review what worked and what didn’t was immediately after the event. In our lead post, we...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. Did you survive Easter? For pastors, this is an exhilarating day, but it can also be a day leading to great depression. Exhaustion might be the word that comes to mind. This week’s Stewardship Journal addresses the day after Easter. We begin with another...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. Have you prepared for the offering on Easter? For most churches, the offering is an afterthought, particularly on Easter. We believe that is a mistake. In our lead post, entitled 3 Easter Offering Mistakes, we share with you how to make your Easter...
You’ll have the biggest crowd of the year, both online and in attendance, but if you make these 3 Easter offering mistakes, you could lose the potential for your best offering ever! For many churches, the Easter offering can be a shot in the arm, helping them wipe out any...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. Our stated goal is to help each MBC local church build and sustain a culture of generosity built upon biblical stewardship. The Stewardship Journal is your source for all things generosity and stewardship related. Have you ever thought you are taking up too...
Welcome to another edition of the Stewardship Journal. It’s time to start thinking and planning out your Annie Armstrong Offering! Millions of dollars have been raised to support our work in North America. There is perhaps no greater illustration of the collective power of giving to missions than the SBC’s annual...
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...
