How to Use Your Platform to be Fully Funded

by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 5

Churches have one huge advantage over every other non-profit in the world.  We get weekly face time with our major donors.  Most non-profits never even meet their donors much less have a first name relationship with them.  Every week in your services you get an...

If You Want to Be Fully Funded in 2018 You MUST Preach on Giving

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...

How To Make Up a Weather Impacted Offering

by Mark Brooks | | Blog

If you are going to be fully funded this year you need to know how to make up a weather impacted offering.  Why?  Because it is not IF you will have weather impacting your services but WHEN.  From Florida to Maine and Alaska to California weather does impact churches...

Pastoral Leadership is THE Key

by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 5

“Everything rises and falls on leadership.”  That is a quote from my old boss John Maxwell.  When it comes to a church being fully funded someone MUST own building giving and givers.  That someone MUST be the Senior Pastor.  A Senior Pastor providing good leadership...

Do Special Offerings Work?

by Mark Brooks | | Blog

Do special offerings work?  Yes!  In my experience of working with churches special offerings work IF, you hold them first and foremost.  Secondly you have to do them right or they could go very wrong.  In this issue I want to lay out what I feel are the key...