Summer is a time of sunshine, vacations, trips, and fun. Unfortunately, for many churches like yours, it is also a time of decreased attendance and engagement as so many are out of town. This means your tithes take a hit as seats are empty, and fewer envelopes are being dropped in the offering plate each week.
So how can you avoid the dreaded summer slump while your members are enjoying their time away?
Free step-by-step guide to creating a church communications plan
Are you tired of haphazard communication frustrating your church’s messaging? Does it seem like your church’s messages always get misunderstood?
In today’s world, effective church communication is more important than ever. But it’s tough to keep the messages clear with so much going on. That often means your church mission gets blurred for the people who need to hear it the most.
That’s why every church needs a communications plan.
To help, we’ve put together a new FREE guide, Crafting Your Church’s Communications Plan: A Step-by-Step Blueprint to Tell Your Story Better, to help you create a cohesive strategy to make your church’s messaging better.
After you implement the strategies in this guide, your church will be prepared to:
Your church mission matters to your community and the world around you. Start building a communication plan that moves your mission forward rather than setting it back.
Say goodbye to surprising church tech costs that blow up your budget
Is your church struggling to budget for unpredictable IT costs?
Technology has become a critical part of how we reach people in today’s world. But it’s famously tough to budget for IT. Too many churches are letting IT surprises eat into the resources meant for core ministry objectives.
Our new guide can help. In The Hidden Costs of Your Church’s Digital Infrastructure, you’ll learn the surprising secret to cutting out the costs that kill your church’s IT budget.
You’ll discover:
Strong leadership is crucial to the growth and impact of your church. The right leaders can empower your church family to grow together in ministry and embrace change as your church’s reach expands into the community and beyond.
How do you better prepare to be the leader your church needs moving forward?
Download this free guide to read how you can learn to effectively lead your church with six simple steps.
The holiday season provides your church with one of the best opportunities of the year to reach your neighbors.
With Christmas just around the corner, you don’t have time to stew over what to do. That’s why we’ve created a new FREE guide that gives you five quick and easy outreach ideas you can use to reach new people and build a long-term disciple-making relationship with them.
After implementing the strategies in 5 Quick & Easy Church Holiday Outreaches and How to Follow-Up, you be able to:
Reach people in your community with holiday outreach activities that will engage any neighborhood.
Strengthen your church’s impact with efficient follow-up systems, turning holiday encounters into enduring connections and spiritual growth.
Create memorable holiday events that enhance your church’s community presence.
You’ve heard the old saying, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” But did you know that your guests’ first impression comes way before they step foot in your church and continues long after they are back at home?
It’s true. That’s why it’s critical that you optimize the whole welcome experience, not just the 75 minutes your guests are in the building.
Our new FREE guide will help you do just that. Welcoming Church Guests: A Step-By-Step Approach takes your church from the moment a guest starts searching for you online through the time he or she becomes a committed part of your church family. The guide walks you through each step so you can give the warmest welcome possible for those visiting your church.
In this guide, you’ll learn to:
You’ll also get a checklist you can use to help you ensure your guest experience puts your best foot forward.
When planning a mission trip for your church, your time should be spent making an impact, not frustratingly trying to fill fundraising gaps for your team.
Too many churches waste countless hours trying to orchestrate fundraising opportunities for mission trips. We don’t blame them. Money makes missions happen and it’s vital to truly have an impact on any trip. However, the more time churches spend striving to attain donations, the less time they spend preparing their teams for trips and actually serving.
If you’re ready to find out how to get out of the fundraising weeds and out onto the mission field, here is how social fundraising will allow your church and staff to focus less on mission trip processes and more on living out their God-given mission.
While giving thanks is at the forefront of our minds, be sure you include thanking your donors for their generosity. Making the donation is just the beginning and should spark an outpouring of gratitude from your ministry.
In this guide, Acknowledging Generosity: Innovative Approaches to Donor Recognition, our giving partners at Vanco share 7 key guidelines you should follow when thanking your givers for their support, plus free templates to get you started!
In this free guide, you’ll learn:
Most of our church’s significant and best donors only have about 10 percent of their wealth in liquid cash. The rest – 90 percent or more – is tied up in property, land, stocks and other assets. If we’re not creating a path for them to consider making charitable contributions from where most of their wealth is held, we’re not giving them a full opportunity to fund our ministries and partner with us in God’s mission.
Learn how your members can turn unwanted property, unneeded IRA income and other non-cash assets into important gifts to your church.
Too many church leaders want to run and hide when it’s time to discuss money. But the Bible doesn’t give us that option. Jesus talked about money all throughout the Gospels. Teaching people to give like Jesus did is an important part of the discipleship process.
In our new FREE guide. Nurturing Generosity: Helping Members Take Their Next Step in Biblical Stewardship, we’ll walk you through the five stages of church generosity (non-giver, occasional giver, regular giver, proportional giver, and kingdom investor) and help you engage them in their next step.
In this free guide, you’ll learn:
