by Mark Brooks | | Blog
After watching the NFL playoffs, I am reminded of why your success is all about timing. How many times did success or failure of a play depend upon just the right timing? A ball had to be in the right place at the right time at the right moment. Players had to be...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Do you still have time to hold a spring capital campaign? The sales answer would be yes. The truthful answer is, it depends. If you are interested read on… Yes, there is still time to get in a spring capital campaign BUT you need to act quickly! Every day...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
I believe that if you want to be fully funded in 2018 you MUST preach on giving! Don’t take my word for it read what George Barna wrote a few years about preaching on money from his book “How to Increase Giving in Your Church.” He found that churches in which...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
I am here with the bad news of why your church will struggle to make budget in 2018. I know everyone hates bad news. Especially at the start of the New Year. We want to be filled with optimism and hope right? Yet what we often need is someone to tell us the...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Should pastors know what members give? Yes!! There are few issues that cause more division and consternation than this issue. Yet studies show that pastors who know the giving patterns of their members raise more money than those that don’t. Yet many don’t want to...