by Mark Brooks | | Blog
The single most important thing you can do to increase giving at your church is to know how to elevator pitch your offerings. You doubt that? Here is what one pastor wrote me a few years ago… “Giving at our church can be summed up with one word: phenomenal! ...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Is your church ready for the Baby Boomer Boomerang? A newly released study has found that 1 in 5 Baby Boomers are turning to religion in their old age. That 20% represents approximately 19 million boomers. I am calling this trend the Baby Boom Boomerang. Why are...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Generosity is not caught, it is taught. Yet many pastors act as if their members will eventually “get it.” I was one of those pastors early on in my career. I seldom, if ever, preached on giving. When I realized that Jesus taught more about finances than any other...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
My four reasons why summer giving goes down will surprise you! Your first thought was probably that summer giving goes down because attendance goes down. Everyone knows that. If everyone knows that then why is it that we don’t do something to head off the train...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Today’s offering advice is this, if you want to increase giving try a change up pitch. Forgive me World Cup fans but I am a tried and true American that knows more about baseball than soccer. What I do know about baseball is that successful pitchers must have...
