We Hope to Increase Our Budget

by Mark Brooks | | Blog

“We hope to increase our budget from 800K to $1 million.”  That was what a person told me their pastor stated recently at a congregational meeting.  Hope?  The saying, “hope is not a strategy,” first came to my mind.  When churches use the word...

10 Steps to a Better Offering

by Mark Brooks | | Blog

If you will take these 10 steps to a better offering you will raise more money!  My Giving365 members have found this to be true.  One client increased the giving at his church by 30% all because they changed how the took up the offering using my strategies.  Here is...

10/24/16 – Budget Basics.

by Mark Brooks | | Monday With Mark

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The Trickle-Down Economics of Giving

by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 3

I believe in trickle-down economics for the church.  That is not a political statement it is a fact.  I will let the economists and politicians argue about whether it works for America but in my experience it works in the church.  Let’s talk about how you can produce...

#GivingTuesday Thoughts

by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 3

Giving Alert!  Your biggest donors are aging fast and moving into retirement!  Do you have a plan to replace them?  As I have been saying for the last year, 10,000 Baby Boomers a day turn 65 and many are heading into retirement.  What that means for you is their...