by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 2
If you don’t measure your giving you will in all probability see giving decline. In my experience most pastors have no clue how there giving is doing. Interestingly enough many staff members are ignorant. If you are reading this you are an exception. A recent...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 2
Ready or not the New Year is here! Helping you get ready is my job as your stewardship coach. As we near the finish of football season the teams reaching the playoffs are the ones that prepared the best. Success doesn’t just happen you prepare for it. When it...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 2
Merry Christmas from The Stewardship Coach! This is a special addition of The Stewardship Coach as around my house there are now grandchildren to chase and play with. Christmas is more fun with little kids and this year we have all four grandkids with us. Oh, and...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 2
I know you are working on your end of year giving plan but let’s start thinking about 2016! One of the things that I find is a common mistake with churches of all sizes is the lack of forward planning. I cannot tell you how many times churches call us about capital...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 2
Do you have your end of year emails ready? In my end of year strategy I advise at least four emails be sent out the last two weeks of the year. The first I recommend goes out on the Monday before Christmas and that is two weeks away! So in this edition I want to...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 2
Are you ready for 2016? If you are like me in your mind we should just be nearing the end of summer instead of nearing then end of the year. Time truly does fly! One thing I have learned in working with churches is we are typically bad about planning beyond next...
