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 how to set up recurring payments for the resource dollars that are allocated towards “giving.” Also, take time regularly (during a weekend service) to teach your church how to set-up recurring payments.

Consistent givers will carry your church on weekends when attendance may be low, but specifically during the “J” months (January, June & July) when giving can be consistently low.

Take time to focus on building consistent givers!

Click here to find out more about how we can help your church “Automate the Important” .

Digital giving will be an area that soon becomes common in most of our churches, and it is unlikely that people will reminisce about the good old days when they wrote checks for their giving or brought cash from their paychecks.

Don’t get stuck reminiscing about things that do not matter. Turn your attention to the future and consider the best ways to reach the people that God has called you to impact for His name.

Automate the Important is a full-blown initiative to help people in your church automate their giving.  It’s a focus on digital giving, and it’s one of the monthly member benefits for Giving Rocket members.

Today, people want to be able to give in new ways. Cash and checks have been replaced with debit and credit cards, but churches are still resistant to the idea of digital giving. Don’t get left behind when it comes to giving! Implement a digital giving strategy that will grow your church’s budget and engage people in new ways.

This month, we’re coaching all of our Giving Rocket members in the area of digital giving.  If you’ve been thinking about jumping in, this is the time to do it.

Click here to give Giving Rocket a trial run for only $1.

THIS IS A PROBLEM! And we are going on a campaign to fix it.

That’s why we’re inviting you to one of eight identical Town Hall Meetings where we are going to address the issue head-on and tell you how you can fix it. We’re tired of churches being broke and behind budget, struggling to make ministry ends meet.

During the Town Hall meeting, you will learn:

• The 5 Key Influencers to exceeding your church budget
• The three things you can do right now to change the giving economy in your church
• How a real church applied these principles and saw a significant increase in giving

Here are the eight options you have to attend: (All times are U.S. Eastern Time)

1. Wed, 5/9 at 2pm (For line leaders)
2. Thurs, 5/10 at 10am (I’ll take brunch with my webinar)
3. Sat, 5/12 at 9am (For people with day jobs)
4. Sun, 5/13 at 9pm (But it’s 5 o’clock somewhere)
5. Mon, 5/14 at 12pm (Lunch & learn)
6. Tues, 5/15 at 7pm (It’s not Fat Tuesday, it’s Finance Team Tuesday)
7. Wed, 5/16 at 11pm (Workaholics or people on the other side of Earth)
8. Thurs, 5/17 at 6am (For England & old people)

Pick the one that’s most convenient for you and sign up now by completing this form:

While we recognize that many people have abused the subject, we believe it’s time to conquer the fear of talking about money in the church.  I offer these five suggestions.

1. Don’t apologize for talking about money.  It’s not a necessary evil – it’s an important part of the discipleship process.  Jesus said that people’s hearts and people’s finances were connected.  So when you stand to preach on money, you’re not preaching a money sermon; you’re preaching a discipleship sermon.  Never apologize for asking people to follow Jesus.
2. Make it normal to talk about money.  People talk about money all of the time, probably EVERYDAY.  It’s time for this to be a normal topic in the church as well.  This means that you need to talk about spending, savings, debt, retirement, and insurance, in addition to giving.
3. Start talking about money EARLY.  If you’re a church planter, one of the healthiest things you can do in your church is to teach on stewardship and generosity early on.  In fact, talk about generosity with your core group, because what they model will happen on a larger scale.  You’re not going to flip a switch and become a generous church with generous people.
4. Un-churched people aren’t stupid…they know it takes money to run a church.  Pastors are often afraid to talk about money because we’ve all read the books showing skeptics think the church is all about money.  People who don’t go to church need Jesus, but they are not dumb.  They aren’t offended when they are asked to contribute, and they know it takes money to pay people and operate a facility.  Don’t’ let the fact that you’re reaching skeptics keep you from talking about money.
5. People do want help with their finances.  For too long, the church has just asked for money from people, yet offered no practical help in the process.  What would happen if you helped your church WIN with their finances?  Would people in your church respect you if you helped them pay cash for a vacation?  Let’s want something FOR people, not just FROM them.

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And while it’s true that we need to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and respond to needs as we’re led, there’s another side of the coin that’s equally important.

We need to be strategic givers.

Read Genesis 24 and you’ll find that Abraham planned ahead and sent gifts for Isaac’s future wife.

Read the Christmas story and you’ll find that that the Magi planned ahead and brought expensive gifts with incredible meaning for Jesus.

Isaiah 32:8 says generous people PLAN to do what is generous.

In other words, while we can respond to needs as they arrive, we should PLAN to give.

That’s why I love the phrase Automate the Important.  If generosity is important to you, why not set it up and make it automatic?  Why not do what the Bible teaches and plan ahead?

The premise of the the Church Giving Survey was to look at how churches are doing financially & what was influencing their giving.  I have to say that I was surprised at the data that came back.

Here is what surprised me:

1. 86% of churches are BROKE or BEHIND budget 

The study reveals only 14% of churches are ahead of budget.  This is a problem.  86% of churches are just existing… Jump over to the survey page & find out why.

2. Increasing church giving isn’t difficult

The study reveals 5 key influencers on church giving.  All 5 of the influencers can be implemented by any church of any size.

3. The 14% of churches ahead of budget act the same

The churches exceeding budget are different in their demographics but the same in how they operate.  I didn’t think it would be like this but it was.  It shocked me to see that there really is a formula you can use to increase church giving.

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This seems very unlikely with many churches seeing contributions decrease while consumer debt continues to increase.  Have you ever heard someone say, “I’ve given my way into debt!” It’s not likely that people will increase their debt by giving money to their church via credit cards. If anything, they have spent money on themselves, increasing their debt, while never giving to the church.

Don’t buy into the lie.  Digital giving does not increase personal debt.

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 our giving come from our online giving portal and kiosks.”

Digital giving provides a new, relevant way to allow your congregation to give 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Faith Promise says online giving has kept their financial staffing costs down while increasing giving. The church’s annual giving has increased by an average of 15% per year over the last three years.

We want to help your church in this area.  If you would like more information on how to launch digital giving in your ministry, join Giving Rocket today.