Loving Through Giving

“You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving” – Amy Carmichael Carmichael hits a valid point, but we know that church giving is complicated, multi-faceted, and requires a balanced approach. Your church needs a budget to keep the doors open, but money is a difficult topic to talk about, both from…

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Rocket Donations: A Customer Review

This review of Rocket Donations, our new online tithing platform, comes directly from Keyla Wright, who’s on staff at InSoul Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Here she is with her team… This is her review of the product… Here’s a little insight.  We have been with Rocket nearly 4 years or so. When we initially…

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Straight Talk: Why Online Tithing & Giving Is Such A Big Deal

Digital is the preferred method for people in today’s society. Almost no one will dispute that. But yet, so often a church’s digital giving strategy doesn’t reflect it. The net result for churches is they end up missing out on donations they need! Digital Giving is about maximizing donations so you can maximize ministry. That,…

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Doing The “Dance” With Online Tithing & Your Financial Team

Online tithing. As a leader, you see that it has the potential to increase giving, create donation predictability, and provide budget stability. But you must get buy-in and approval from your financial board, stewardship committee, or key leadership team. And that, my friends, is no walk in the park. It’s more like a trek through…

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More Money In The Church Bank

THE HARDEST part of what we do when it comes to helping your church get more money in the bank… is helping YOU understand how investing money results in more money in the bank.  Most churches think the way to increase money in the bank is by merely holding on to what they have, slashing…

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How To Skyrocket Giving This Summer-Whiteboard Session

April and May are the pre-summer giving months, and the steps you take during this critical time, will make all the difference in whether or not your giving will take a nose dive this summer. In this week’s whiteboard session, Casey covers a four-part plan to help you prepare. Slideshare Download The Slides Here

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Five Things You Can Do to Increase Regular Giving in Your Church

“Having money beats not having money,” a pastor emailed us last week. While there are churches in all kinds of settings doing ministry in all kinds of ways, money does seem to be a common denominator.  Resources can make ministry happen.  Finances can facilitate ministry. You don’t need a car wash or a capital campaign…

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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…

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Three 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…

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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…

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