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Behind the Build: Building Better Communication for Your Ministry

Behind the Build is a new series that takes you inside the thinking behind the products you use every day. You’ll hear directly from our ...

Church Stewardship Is More Than a Season

For many churches, stewardship has a season. It may arrive in the fall alongside annual budgets and pledge campaigns, or it may become a bigger ...

Engaging Gen Z: 5 Youth Outreach Ideas That Actually Work

The teens currently filling the seats in your youth group belong to the tail end of Generation Z and the very beginning of Generation Alpha ...

Understanding Giving Patterns in Your Congregation

The American Beliefs Study (ABS) provides proprietary data for MissionInsite related to religious behaviors, beliefs, and practices in the U.S. In between the large sample ...

What Catholics Have Told Us About AI—and Why Pope Leo’s Guidance Matters

By Terry Poplava Pope Leo XIV has commanded our attention through his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Isabella Piro, writing for Vatican news, highlights the underpinning framework: “Divided into five chapters, Magnifica humanitas has ...

The Church’s Response to Loneliness Is Not a Program. It’s Relationship.

Loneliness is often described today as a social epidemic. We see it in rising anxiety, polarization, digital exhaustion, and the growing sense that many people—even those ...

Ideas for Summer: Creative Community Outreach That Transforms Neighborhoods

When it comes to church outreach, summer is one of the easiest times of the year to plan creative and practical events that have the ...

Leisure Time? Parishes Are the Way.

By Terry Poplava Is leisure time overrated? Health experts tell us we need to take a break from work activity. Our media is filled with ...

Easter Church Planning (Part 2): How to Follow Up Well and Inspire Lasting Generosity

Easter may bring more people through your doors than almost any other Sunday, but what happens after Easter matters just as much as what happens ...

Easter Church Planning (Part 1): How to Invite Clearly and Create a Welcoming Guest Experience

Easter is often the most attended Sunday of the year. It brings a high number of guests, including people who have not been to church ...

Cultural Catholics?

I was intrigued by the February 5 article from researcher Ryan Burge titled “Cultural Jews and Cultural Catholics? Who belongs without believing?” In the article, ...

“Why Isn’t My Outreach Working?” 3 Reasons Church Outreach Falls Short

If you find that your outreach isn’t building relationships and that you aren’t making as big an impact as you thought your efforts should be, ...