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March 8, 2019 4 Comments

Five Incredible Tools for Better Stewardship – Rainer on Leadership #517

Podcast Episode #517

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Stewardship is important for churches, and to increase stewardship, you have to be intentional about it and you have to resource it well. Today, we discuss some of the best stewardship resources we know of in response to listener questions.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

  • The power of the personal recommendation helps when it comes to knowing what resources to use in the church.
  • Text giving is convenient for those who want to give who don’t carry cash or checks—which is becoming more common.
  • Churches who make stewardship a priority are ones who resources their people well to help them in personal stewardship.
  • “The most expensive hire you will ever make is the wrong hire.”

The five ways we discuss are:

  1. DIY Stewardship Campaign
  2. Text giving
  3. Budget analysis
  4. Personal stewardship resources
  5. Effective leadership for stewardship

Resources mentioned in today’s podcast

  • Generis
  • Tithe.ly
  • Envelope3.com
  • The Money Challenge
  • Cool Solutions Group

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  1. David G Troublefield, PhD says

    March 8, 2019 at 7:42 am

    🙂 This list used to include offering envelopes brought with them by church members to Sunday School. 98% of weekly giving was gathered that way–and other important measures of congregational growth were recorded for assessment as folks “checked the boxes” on their envelopes. The approach was representative of the Standard taught by denominational leaders and that proved effective for growth as compared to congregations that did not choose to attain to that Standard.

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  2. mark says

    March 8, 2019 at 10:06 am

    Tell people where the money goes and what was achieved with it. If a program is eating up money and producing no results, cut it. Have a reception for your younger members and feature the ministries and let them have face time with the leadership and clergy. I have never understood why none of this is done.

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    • Kylin says

      March 10, 2019 at 11:12 am

      Many times in church we’ve been hit up for extra money to fund some new project or idea. We willingly gave what we could. We were never given more information about events, never invited to participate, and were basically treated like an ATM machine. Afterward there was no follow-up to tell the congregation what good had come from the idea. It seemed like our money was going into a black hole. When you ask too many questions, you are told to stop making an issue of money.

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  3. Dale Critchley says

    March 10, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    Don’t recommend text giving. Check out the latest studies on that. https://nonprofitssource.com/online-giving-statistics/

    I’m not affiliated; just heard about it from another podcast.

    Otherwise good stuff on this episode.

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