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What Would You Do With 24%?

What would you do with 24% if that amount of money came into your church from Thanksgiving to the end of the year? 24% of charities giving comes from Thanksgiving to the end of the year. What percentage of your annual giving comes in these last crucial weeks? While...

Are You Ignoring the Facts?

by admin | | Blog

Are you ignoring the facts of the churches decline? Giving to the church as a percent of Americans incomes has dropped from 3.11% in 1968 to now at 2.3% and declining. At the current rate of decline giving to the church by 2050 will be at 1%! Yet when I talk about...

The Kind of Church I Pray For

by admin | | Blog

Yesterday I responded to a church telling them in essence they were not the kind of church I pray for as a stewardship partner. This is the second time I have said this to the same church. The last time a couple on the committee said I was obnoxious. I was...

How to Make Your Offering Exciting

by admin | | Giving, Offering Talks, The Stewardship Coach

If you are ever going to improve your giving you must learn how to make your offering exciting! Frankly the offering is the most boring moment of the worship service. Most of the time it is an afterthought. Most leaders never even give any thought to setting up the...

Spend 10% to 20% on Stewardship!

by admin | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 1

10% to 20% of your time every week should be spent on stewardship! I made that comment recently on one of our Monday Morning With Mark The Stewardship Coach webinars. I could almost hear guys falling off their chairs. I know, on top of your busy week here I am...