In our first issue of 2023, we focused on the economy and its impact on giving and churches. Our lead article was about the slow start the Cooperative Program has seen to the new fiscal year. Going into December, giving was -6.82% behind budgeted needs. Baptist Press summarized the information...
Up post. Three pastors were a part of this roundtable discussion about their thoughts on Pastor Rhea’s article as well as their perspectives on VBS. We started by asking, Do you think we should teach giving during VBS? Here are a few of the replies to this question pastors gave us. Greg...
The March 28th edition of the Stewardship Journal focused on the churches opening back up and returning to many pre-Covid traditions, such as passing an offering plate or passing out the Lord’s Supper. The Sr. Pastor of 1st DeSoto, Brad Delaughter, wrote about their plans to return to normal. Mark...
Ah, Covid. As if leading a church were not hard enough, roughly two years ago, Covid came in and disrupted everything in the church’s life, making an already difficult job seemingly impossible. Covid brought many rounds of mandates, rules, and recommendations for the church. The vast majority of churches had...
Our Executive Director, Dr. John Yeats, pointed out in his opening statement the results of a study that showed only 13% of evangelicals give anything close to a tithe. At the same time, multiple studies have shown that younger generations are not giving at the same rate as their grandparents...
64% of churches are optimistic about total cash gifts to their churches going into 2022, according to a study done by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).1 That was the opening line in our post last week on the 2022 state of giving and offerings. When we see national...
