by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Whether you live on the coast or not there are 5 lessons from Hurricane Florence that every church MUST learn from. Its hurricane season and we just watched what could have been a much worse storm impact our East Coast. As the storm moved closer to shore I began to...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
“I just ran through my top 15 donors and only one of them is NOT a Baby Boomer!” That was what Pastor Shane Bishop recently said to me while I sat in his office. Shane has been my friend and client since early 2000. His church, Christ Church, has exploded in growth...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
George Barna wrote that, “effective fund-raising churches refuse to treat all people as equals.” You might be saying, “What?” Here is the full quote… “Effective fund-raising churches refuse to treat all people as equals – and people...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
I want to give you 5 keys to a better offering time. Every Friday I post a blog dedicated to some aspect of the offering. I have written more on offerings and written more offering talks than any other person I know of. Churches that have used my materials have...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
In my over 20 years of helping churches raise funds I have found there is one key barrier to reversing the decline in giving. It’s the Tyranny of the Urgent. Christian leaders are consumed by immediate problems causing them to ignore future problems. It is not...