Online Giving In The Church
What Do You Do When Your Church Budget Gets Tight?
We have all had weeks and months where we did everything the same and the giving didn’t meet our expectations. I get asked a lot about what to do when income isn’t coming in as expected. What should you do? The majority of pastors don’t do anything or they start using guilt; neither of these…
Read MoreSeven Ways to Increase Giving In Your Church
We started Giving Rocket in 2011 because we wanted to help churches have more money for ministry. We believe the church should be the most well-funded organization on earth. We are always on the lookout for helpful information to help you increase giving. John Haydon gives Seven Ways to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Donations in 2013. Here…
Read MoreThree Money Mistakes Pastors Make
Here are three money mistakes many pastors make. 1. Not communicating ENOUGH. Stewardship Sunday and the quick mention about online giving in the weekly update are not enough. People in the real world deal with money every day, so this is something you have to talk about on a regular basis. You need a strategy…
Read More9 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 MoreIs Your Giving Page Too Complicated?
In our house, we’ve moved to instant downloads and AppleTV and we rarely use the DVD player. The other day, my kids got a DVD as a gift, but it came with a digital version, which would surely save me the trouble of having to rip it to my hard drive. I found the registration…
Read MoreWhy Waffle House is Smarter than the Church
In 2006, Waffle House made a big move. No longer was it a cash only establishment as it had been since its inception in 1955. It purchased the technology to accept Visa and MasterCard. Bring on the plastic, people, and save your change for the jukebox! Waffle House’s leadership saw a problem, and they tackled…
Read MoreSummer is a Great Time to Talk About Digital Giving
You might consider scaling back at church this summer. People might consider doing the same thing in their giving. Whether it is a missed Sunday, an extravagant vacation, or something else, people will be absent from worship services and giving will decrease. That is, unless you make “digital your default.” While Giving Rocket coaches pastors…
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…
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