RocketCast 009: How To Create A Worship Set List That Works-Whiteboard Wednesday
How do you determine which songs to include in your worship set each week? How do you transition between each song. What are some tips for engaging your congregation in singing? Todd Fields—Director of Worship Leader Development at Northpoint Community Church—answers these questions and helps you create a worship set list in this week’s Whiteboard…
Read MoreRocketCast 008: 5 Factors That Increase Church Giving – Listen Now
Casey Graham recently hosted a LIVE training event on our Wednesday Whiteboard session. Listen as he teaches the best practices to creating or improving your digital giving experience in your church. Download the training slides here
Read More5 Game Changing Factors That Increase Church Giving Fast
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3 Ways To Become A Generous Church
Last week, we posted an article on Facebook about how one reason church’s are struggling with engaging their communities, is that they’re too “inward focused” rather than being “outward focused.” So, how can your church become outward focused? By being a generous church. Notice we didn’t say by getting your congregation to be generous, but…
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Should You “Stalk” Prospective Church Staff On Social Media?
Today’s post is a guest post by Tim Stevens, a team leader with the Vanderbloemen Search Group, and the former executive pastor at Granger Community Church, in Indiana. During his twenty years there, he helped grow the church to more than 5,000 gathering weekly in three locations and saw a worldwide impact. Facebook. Twitter. Tumblr.…
Read MoreInfographic: The 3 “M’s” of Church Finance Leadership
As leaders, we crave progress. We love it when our church is moving forward, when ministry is happening, when people are being saved, and when it just feels like we’ve got momentum. One component of church leadership is financial. If you’re a senior or lead pastor and you’re reading this, chances are you approve the…
Read MorePsssst, your church staff aren’t faithfully giving…
Last week, we did a live training called 3 Keys To Explosive Church Giving In 2015 and a fantastic question was raised during the Q and A time: “how do I check, and address, staff giving in a healthy way?” Great question! When consulting with churches, we are stunned to hear a senior pastor state that he…
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How To Derail Your Ministry And Life In 2015
“Busyness leads to barrenness.” That’s a quote I heard from a pastor a long time ago. He was talking about our tendency to neglect our relationship with God as our schedules fill up and the responsibilities of life crowd out what’s most important. It’s an obvious point, right? I mean, we’re pastors and church leaders.…
Read MoreWhy Senior Pastors Are Keeping Churches Broke
Have you ever put your everything into something and not seen the results you hoped you would see? That was me. In 2008, I left my church staff position as a CFO to start my own company. When I started, the company’s name was actually ReThink Money. I started the company to help pastors and…
Read MoreHow to Help Your Church Recover From a Christmas Debt Hangover
An odd thing happens in January. Church attendance increases, but giving actually drops. Why? Because while many people in your congregation bought presents in December, they’re just now starting to pay for them. We like to call this yearly phenomenon the Christmas debt hangover. The most popular Bible passage concerning debt is probably Proverbs 22:7…
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