Interview: Todd McMichen of Auxano on Church Vision & Generosity
Today we’re continuing the conversation with another person who helps churches raise money by getting church leadership teams. Todd McMichen is at Auxano and is the Chief Campaign consultant over there. Todd has served for more than 30 years in a variety of roles in the local church, doing everything from planting churches to lead […]
Interview: Justin Trapp of MinistryPass.com
Today I got to sit with @JustinTrapp who is the founder of a church media resource site called MinistryPass.com. I love this resource that Justin has built because it is targeting the “small guy” in the church world — churches with 300 or less attendees. That description is one that is shared by the majority of […]
3 Reasons Why Your Church Needs To Consider Mobile Giving For Offering & Tithes
Are you still depending on people to pull out their wallets and checkbooks during our church service? Are you passing the offering plate down the line without any thought to what might be better, easier, preferred by those that are giving to support your church? Does your entire offering time revolve around your church, staff […]
Gabbing About Generosity: Culture of Ready with Doug Turner
Today I sat down with Doug Turner of Culture of Ready. He’s an industry veteran helping churches and ministries raise over $1 Billion during his tenure in this role. One of the things that I really was looking forward to hearing about is Doug’s notion that communities that understand good stewardship and generosity don’t […]
Download: “Get Your Tail To Church This Easter” Graphic
One of the most popular images on my other blog is this one promoting Easter at church: Every year about this time I get requests via email saying they found the image on my blog and could they get a copy to use in their church marketing promotion for Easter services. Here’s where you […]
3 Obstacles Keeping Your Church From Adopting Online & Digital Giving
Last week we kicked off the discussion and had a lively chat. Today we continue the discussion, talk about 3 big obstacles for why churches aren’t adopting online and mobile giving options for receiving the offering & tithes during a church worship service. We even make a friend on the net and invite Alfredo into […]
Generosity Journey: Conversation About The State of Giving
Recently, Richard and I have been making varied observations about the State of Giving in our culture. Both to non-profits and the Church. There seems to be a couple of trends taking place, and many organizations are at risk of being caught in the intersection of some of these trends if they don’t wake up […]
New Project Launching at NRB
It’s happening! A new project I’m working on with the American Bible Society is being unveiled at NRB Proclaim 2016 conference & expo later this month. Will you be there? Drop by the ABS booth #857 (look for the new logo) and find out what it’s all about!d
Evolution of Payments In a Digital World
Here’s one issue that non-profits and churches really need to pay attention to if they really want to survive beyond another decade or so. It’s happening right now and no one seems to notice judging by the pace of adoption of digital giving, give-by-text, online giving options by nonprofits and churches. Within 5-7 years, the […]