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!

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:

• A systematized approach to helping members grow in generosity.
• How to build a generous culture that helps people take these steps more easily
• The value of integrating technology into your generosity pathway to empower growth.

Whether you’re a pastor, church leader, or layperson, our consulting services can help you identify new ministry opportunities, improve community engagement, and develop effective outreach programs. We believe that by using data to inform our decisions, we can create stronger, more vibrant communities of faith.

At ACS Technologies, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities facing churches today. That’s why we offer MissionInsite, a powerful demographic and lifestyle solution to help you better understand your community. There are many ways to leverage the information available in the system.

Our experienced team of expert consultants work with churches of all sizes and denominations to analyze the data provided by Missioninsite’s powerful church demographic platform. We then provide tailored recommendations and practical strategies to help churches maximize their impact and reach. And we can coach you through the planning process.

If you’re ready to take the next step toward unlocking the full potential of your church’s data, download our free guide “Maximizing Your Church’s Impact with MissionInsite” now.

Bridge the Generation Gap

Master church communications across all ages

It’s getting tougher and tougher for churches to reach different generations with their communications. Yet the unique communication preferences of your community have never been more important for building stronger relationships with the different generations in your community.

Our new guide, Engage Every Generation, leverages ground-breaking research from the ACST American Beliefs Study to help you cut through all the noise, so you can:

• Turn around declining engagement trends with better communication strategies for different generations.
• Learn to adapt to the communications preferences of each generation you’re trying to reach.
• Overcome generational divides in communications strategies so you can build a cohesive plan to reach your church family and the broader community.

Whether you’re a pastor, church leader, staff, or volunteer, this guide is for you. Get practical, easy-to-implement tips to improve your church’s communication and connect with your community on a whole new level.

They’re called the unchurched… the de-churched… the disengaged.  They live right there in your neighborhood.  But they don’t come to church.  How do you reach them? 

Call out: We have proven ways to start filling your church with new people every Sunday.

Often people don’t disagree with the life-giving message of Christianity.  They just believe their local church is not relevant  to their lives.  ACST can help you FIND and KNOW so you can LOVE your neighbors in ways that meet their expressed needs.

You want your church to grow, but you don’t know where to start.

You’re not alone. We know how tough sustainable growth can be. That’s why we’ve created a guide to help you grow in a balanced way that leads to reaching new communities with the good news.

In the Church Growth Playbook, we will:

• Discover an approach that balances attractional and missional approaches.
• Learn about the church growth strategy that has worked in a variety of contexts.
• Reach new communities with a multiplication plan that leads to new churches.

Most churches don’t talk to their members about legacy or estate gifts at all. Of those who do, it’s likely a mention in passing or something only targeted at those age 70+. Unfortunately, other charitable organizations run circles around churches when it comes to securing planned gifts. Learn techniques for education and communicating with your members about the power of leaving a lasting legacy through their estate and planned giving.

Your church can’t reach every person and meet every need. God has made you a steward of the most important message in the history of the world—the good news about Jesus.

But you only have so much time and so many resources. That’s why you must target those resources to reach people most likely to respond to the message.

In this free guide, Unlocking Community Insights: How To Find More People To Serve In Your Community, we’ll show you how to do just that.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to:

• Use insights about your neighbors to reach them more effectively.
• Steward your outreach dollars by targeting ministry efforts to meet the needs of your community.
• Leverage data about your community’s diversity to better reflect your neighborhood.