by Mark Brooks | | Blog
If you have a giving site that you subscribe to the question I have for you is, “Are you getting personalized help?” My major competitor hates when I blog stuff like this. They whine that I am being negative. Yet if you are paying $100 a month and you...
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. I want to lay out what I feel are the key ingredients that make...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Giving to the Church in America is on decline and to offset that you need to know why churches are struggling financially. I have been working for twenty years to see the decline in giving be reversed. My life’s vision is, “To reverse the decline in...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
Giving to the church is down and there are 3 reasons why pastors are to blame for the decline in giving. I know this is a harsh statement. Yet from my experience after 20 years of being a Senior Pastor and over 19 years of working with churches helping build giving...
by Mark Brooks | | Blog
The end is near so start planning now if you want to be fully funded in 2016 AND set the stage for a great start to 2017. Few churches think about end of year giving planning. Yet the last quarter of the year, indeed the last few weeks of the year can make or break...