How to Follow-up with Digital Donations

Churches often forget a key group of people in church – digital givers. People who give online may go unnoticed if the pastor does not set up systems to remind them to follow-up on first time digital givers, just like first time givers with cash or checks.  Sometimes, because churches use digital giving systems outside…

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How to Build Consistent Givers

Digital giving has one key component that many leaders overlook – recurring gifts. When attendees of your church engage digital giving, they have the opportunity to establish a gift that repeats on a recurring schedule – weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. If your church teaches financial stewardship classes, consider a component of that class that includes…

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Are You a Strategic Giver?

Many people like to think of giving as an act of spontaneous worship.  God speaks, we’re moved, and we drop something in the offering plate.  We see a need, our heart is tugged, and we offer to help.  That’s how it works for a lot of people. And while it’s true that we need to…

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Church Spotlight: Faith Promise in Knoxville, TN

Faith Promise Church began offering digital giving seven years ago to capture new givers and provide a more convenient way for people to give. Executive Pastor Josh Whitehead said, “It started off slow with a few one-time payments. But after integration with our church management system and internal marketing, we now see over 50% of…

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Your Offerings are Becoming Irrelevant

Can you imagine going to Wal-Mart, only to find that you were required to pay with cash or a check? Now, think about your weekly offering time in your worship service. With attendees carrying less cash and leaving their checkbooks at home, how are they supposed to be involved in giving during the offertory song?…

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Why Most Special Offerings Fail

Most special offerings that don’t reach their goal fail because of a few things. 1. The goal is wrong If you truly think the dollar amount is the goal, you always fail. If the goal is about people, you never really fail. I know this is a hard shift to make and believe, but it’s…

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Success Story From A Member

We get emails all the time from Giving Rocket members sharing how things are going in their church.  I wanted to share one that we got this week with you. This FIRES me up! Casey, I never thought I’d be saying this…but “I’m FIRED UP!!!” Myself, our senior pastor, and 2 other staff members (all…

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