by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 4
“My church has been in a giving decline for several months now! It’s very stressful. And I’m deeply concerned.” That was a message a pastor recently sent to me via Twitter. He wanted to know if my plans would work. [wt_button...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 4
Don’t let the tyranny of the urgent keep you from being fully funded! I must admit that I get frustrated working with pastors and churches. Sometimes I want to scream and say, “You are paying me all this money and not taking my advice. Why?” My wife says I should...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 4
You have to tell a church member seven times seven different ways before he or she “gets it.” A pastor friend of mine told me that as I was preparing for a capital campaign at the church I was pastor of. I have used that line repeatedly throughout my ministry of...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 4
Hollywood is ready for summer is your church? $11 billion dollars was spent last year on movie tickets. 2017 is shaping up to be another $10 billion plus dollar year for Hollywood with the release of another Star Wars film in December. Hollywood is not waiting for...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 4
Are you creating snowflakes? While I avoid politics the term snowflake has crept into our vocabularies as a derogatory term for young people who seemingly are offended at nearly everything. One person defined it this way, “the epithet of choice to fling at anyone...
by Mark Brooks | | The Stewardship Coach, Volume 4
How can we reverse our negative churn rate numbers? That was basically the question I faced as I worked with a staff recently. We do twice yearly financial analysis on their giving. This is something you should consider. After our end of year review we noticed...
