What Do You Do When You Are Behind Budget?

What Do You Do When You Are Behind Budget?

Right now as we near the end of summer churches are asking, what do you do when you are behind budget?  A few years ago I received a newsletter from a church that stated they were $130,000 behind budget going into the fourth quarter!  That is a lot of ground to make...
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...