Church Fundraising
9 Things I Learned Donating Online to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Not long ago, I made online donations to both Presidential candidates. My purpose was not to support a political agenda, but to evaluate the donation and follow up process and see what we could learn. The experiment was fascinating. Here are nine things I learned or realized during the process. 1. It never occurred to…
Read MoreGiving Rocket Lab Recap
Last week, about twenty Giving Rocket members gathered at City Church Eastside in Atlanta to talk about reaching new givers in 2013. Pastors from all across the country gathered for this one day workshop led by our friend David Walters, the Senior Pastor of The Vine. It was a great day focused on kingdom impact. We have…
Read MoreHow to Make December the Biggest Giving Month of the Year
***NEW*** Video 5: Will The Year End Giving System Work in Any Church? (3 minutes) [vimeo 51292801 w=500 h=281] Hey Casey, I just had to let you know that yesterday we did our year-end offering that we called our “Change the World” offering. We promoted the heck out of it following your plan for year-end…
Read MoreFour Reasons People Don’t Give To Your Church
Depending on who you ask, there are two types of people in the world. Those who work and those willing to let them (Robert Frost) Those with loaded guns and those who dig (Clint Eastwood) Those who call it SODA and those who call it POP (Someone from the north) There are two types of…
Read MoreHow to teach low-income attenders to be high impact givers
It would be nice if one person could write a big check and wipe the worry away from the church finances. But the average person in your church is barely getting by when it comes to their personal finances. So it shouldn’t surprise us that 86% of churches are either broke or at breakeven financially. Get…
Read MoreThe Millennial Impact Report
The following infographic comes from The Millennial Impact Report. Let’s take a look at a couple of highlights. 1. People prefer to give online. This correlates with our finding that offering online giving was the #2 factor in churches whose giving exceeds budget. Your greatest opportunity to engage donors is not in your church service…
Read MoreWhat is a “Tithe Challenge?”
Most people are “tithe challenged,” but what people need is a “tithe challenge.” Every year, pastors and church staff are informed that only about 3-4% of Christians tithe. So, apparently people are “tithe challenged.” One way to combat those that are challenged in this area of their spiritual growth is through a “tithe challenge.” A…
Read MoreHow to Follow-up with Digital Donations
Churches often forget a key group of people in church – digital givers. People who give online may go unnoticed if the pastor does not set up systems to remind them to follow-up on first time digital givers, just like first time givers with cash or checks. Sometimes, because churches use digital giving systems outside…
Read MoreGiving Rocket Member Story
Here’s a story from one of our international members, Proclaimers Church who has been going since the early 90s and has been lead by Pastor’s Tom & Denise Rawls since 2003. They currently average over 500 each Sunday and have a campus in Norwich and in Ipswich, UK. “When we did the first quarterly report for 2011 we had…
Read MoreFour Things Pastors Should Not Delegate
Aside from unique campus pastor or teaching pastor situations, there are several things the senior pastor should not delegate. Vision stewardship. I think the senior pastor is the primary champion of the specific vision. Like an army general, he must rally the troops to accomplish the specific vision and keep the leaders focused on…
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