Ways to Increase Your Church’s Offering

1. Clearly articulate your church’s vision for ministry. The dramatic increase in the number of non-profit agencies in the past several years, coupled with an increased expectation of accountability, provides more choices for donors to support. Increasingly, donors choose where they will “invest” their charitable dollars. This choice means that a clear articulation of the church’s vision is a significant…

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Engagement & Engagement Circle

By Charles Eugene Musser, President, Kirby-Smith Associates, Inc. I am a big fan of the Gallup Organization’s StrengthsFinder. Kirby-Smith uses the Gallup StrengthsFinder by encouraging members to take the StrengthsFinder as part of our Life As A Steward Stewardship program. I was recently at St. Gerard Majella Parish in Port Jefferson, New York where Albert L. Winseman, D. Min., who is…

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