by Mark Brooks | | Blog
I want to share with you how a Labor Day offering plan can help close your giving gap. First, you might be surprised that I would contend you could actually see an increase in giving on Labor Day. Three day weekends are typically tough on offerings. Yet with a good...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Here is the recipe for success that I use…Prayer + Vision + Inspiration + Information + Work = Success! Cooks follow a recipe to assure the success of the food they are preparing. Every ingredient is important. The same is true when it comes to funding your...
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
With all that is going on around us you need to know how disruption will impact your church. I have been seeing a lot written lately about the word disruption to describe the days we live in. Disruption is defined as, “disturbance or problems that interrupt...
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...