Use Testimonies to Improve Your Offerings

Use Testimonies to Improve Your Offerings

Here is my tip of the day to improve giving, use testimonies to improve your offerings. My mentor in the stewardship field, Dave Sutherland, use to say, “Nothing moves a heart like a heart that has been moved.”  We used testimonies regularly in our work with churches...
Changing the 1% Train Wreck

Changing the 1% Train Wreck

1%.  That is the percentage Americans will give to the church of their disposable incomes by the year 2050.  That was the finding of empty tomb, inc. a few years back as they tracked the decline in giving since the 1960’s.  Currently Americans give around 2% of...
Why Making Giving Easy is Important

Why Making Giving Easy is Important

If you are going to be fully funded you need to understand why making giving easy is important.  That is because, the easier you make it for people to give the more likely it is they will give.  Consider that… Commerce in America has changed drastically.  The...