by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Here is the recipe for success that I use…Prayer + Vision + Inspiration + Information + Work = Success! Cooks follow a recipe to assure the success of the food they are preparing. Every ingredient is important. The same is true when it comes to funding your...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
With all that is going on around us you need to know how disruption will impact your church. I have been seeing a lot written lately about the word disruption to describe the days we live in. Disruption is defined as, “disturbance or problems that interrupt...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Retirees WILL reshape the future of your church. An article in the June 21st 2018 edition of The Wall Street Journal caused me to think of that opening. The article was entitled, “More Retirees, Fewer Workers Strain U.S.” The opening words of the article is...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Few books have impacted me like George Barna’s, “The Frog in the Kettle.” When it was published in 1990 as a young pastor I devoured every page. The basic message was change was coming but the Church was acting ignorantly bliss just like the proverbial frog in the...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
The times have changed and we better know how to take up an offering in this day of digital giving. Online giving is growing by leaps and bounds. While overall online giving to churches still has not reach the tipping point of being the dominant way people give it...