Is Your Church Fiscally Fit Four factors to help you determine the vitality of your church finances. James D. Berkley
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Total Annual IncomeHere's a benchmark for church annual contributions, adapted from Lyle Schaller's book The Interventionist (Abingdon, 1997). Multiply your average worship attendance by $1,250 to get a healthy idea of what you should be taking in per year. Thus, if my church has 100 attenders on an average Sunday, and annual giving is $125,000, we're on track.. Another way to look at the same ...
I have served churches in four settings: an agricultural area, a community with a highly competitive tourist industry, a university community, and a city dependent on the oil industry. Each church's financial accounting system reflected, in different degrees, the local community's prevailing definition of good business. Use the assessment below to determine how your congregation expects you to conduct ...
Faith Raising, Not Fund Raising Does your church have a stewardship ministry that is consistent and comprehensive? Forrest Reinhardt
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Our church, Saddleback Community Church in Lake Forest, California, has the goal of growing fully mature followers of Jesus who are faithful stewards of God's resources, invested in increasing his kingdom, and who through their giving experience his pleasure. That kind of maturity requires a growth process—spiritual and personal—so we instituted a church-wide stewardship development policy ...
Growing Generous Givers How to lead a congregation to open-handed contribution. Jay Pankratz
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Several years ago I committed myself to teach all of God's Word, including passage about giving. In the years since, I have seen God work in our church in amazing ways, and he has brought our people to new levels of maturity. Rate your church on the following 12 principles for preparing others to be generous. For each principle, rate your church as "proficient," "mediocre," or "needs work."
Money is controversial because you can never know how people will react to a message about it. Most visitors don't want to hear about money the first time they attend a church, and speaking about it can cut to the heart of many influential people. But many pastors and leaders avoid teaching on money for reasons that are just plain wrong. Evaluate your church's preaching and teaching on money. Put ...
Preaching on the Money Are you asking people for a spiritual-financial comitment? Haddon Robinson
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A Madison Avenue advertising firm once surveyed nonchurched people and asked them their impressions of church. "The problem with church," respondents said, "is that the people are always sad, or they talk about death, or they ask for money." In response, many churches today are upbeat, don't say much about death, and rarely broach the offensive subject of money. In many churches, the topic of money ...
Leaders in the beginning stages of a stewardship campaign normally have a lot of questions. Here are the eight most common questions and essential components of each answer. Rate how well you've answered each question. Put a checkmark next to each component your leadership team has thought through.
Will a campaign work in my church?
We sense that a campaign is God's will for our church.
We have gained support for our campaign from key leaders in our church.
Printer view of these results
