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How to anticipate and overcome top capital campaign hurdles

You’ve launched your campaign and the pledges of support are flowing in. The congregation is excited. So what do you do when your campaign hits a major snag?

This article outlines strategies for overcoming campaign hurdles and pain points – the most common issues we see impact a launched campaign. What happens if your pastor resigns? If you lose a major donor or financing? If your project costs are spiraling? Learn the steps to take to keep your campaign on track when a crisis hits.

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understanding the six difference generations in the church today

Learn to Reach the Six Generations in Your Community

Today we have six generations living in our midst—from the centenarian World War II generation to today’s Gen Z children and teenagers. Each brings a different perspective on the world and their
spiritual lives based upon their own unique experiences of history.

To reach these six generations, your church needs to understand their different perspectives. To help you do that, we’ve created a new free guide, Understanding The 6 Different Generations In The Church Today.

With this new free guide, you can:

  • Learn what Millennials are looking for in a church so you can more effectively reach them.
  • Get a better understanding of your church’s future through a deep dive into today’s
    youngest generation, Gen Z.
  • Discover how midlife Gen Xers’ commitment to family is opening up new ministry
    opportunities for your church.
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Considering a Capital Campaign in an Uncertain Economy

Launching a Capital Campaign in a Turbulent Economy

It can feel like record-high inflation and stock market volatility are good reasons to keep kicking the can of a campaign launch down the road. And it’s true: Many churches and organizations have delayed their capital campaign plans due to the pandemic and now with the challenges of the economy.

But don’t give up yet. These concrete steps will help you assess how to best prepare for and  launch a capital campaign for a much-needed project despite the current economic uncertainties.

Considering a Capital Campaign in an Uncertain Economy

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Capital Campaign Strategies

Capital Campaign Communications: A Roadmap for Churches

One of the most critical – but most overlooked – part of planning a campaign is your communications plan. Launching a campaign without a strategy in place for communications can create confusion at best and often leads to poor results.

This article outlines key steps to developing your campaign case for support, your campaign branding and theme and provides a pre-launch campaign communications checklist for churches. Don’t kick off a campaign without this roadmap.

Capital Campaign Communication Strategies for Churches

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Reaching Those In Need Near Your Church

Don’t Let the Unreached Near You Slip Through the Cracks

Studies show that more and more people around us are not being reached by local churches. In 2019, nearly 3 of 10 people in the United States were not affiliated with any religious group. 

That means your church’s mission field is all around you. Yet it still can be hard to discern how to reach those unreached people in your community.

Our new free guide, Top Ideas to Reach the Unreached in Your Community can help. This new resource provides key insights that can show you how to leverage digital tools like MissionInsite to:

  • Define the community you’re trying to reach.
  • Learn some of the demographic details of your neighbors.
  • Understand the needs and program interests of nearby people.

You can’t love the unreached until you know the unreached. This new guide will show you exactly how to leverage high-quality data about your community to develop an effective outreach strategy.

reaching those in need near your church

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how your church can best serve your community during an economic downturn

Learn to Help Your Neighbors Better During an Economic Downturn

Terms like recession, bear market, and inflation matter to your ministry—and your community. Those economic conditions mean pain for the people your church serves. Families whose finances were solid a year ago are struggling today. Those who were struggling are now buried in a financial catastrophe.

But your church can help. A downturn in the economy means new ministry opportunities for your congregation. No one-size-fits-all approach will work, though.

Advanced research tools can help you identify the right opportunities. With these tools, you’ll learn more about your community so you know specific ways you can help during economic downturns. Our new FREE guide helps you use this technology to better serve your community.

In How Your Church Can Best Serve Your Community During an Economic Downturn, you’ll discover:

  • A clear understanding of what terms like inflation, bear market, and recession mean and why they matter for your church.
  • Easy strategies your church can put in place quickly to help struggling neighbors.
  •  Step-by-step instructions about how to use MissionInsite to find and serve those in your community most harmed by economic downturns.

Economic downturns leave no neighborhood unscathed. This free guide helps any church leverage innovative research tools to serve their communities.

how your church can best serve your community during an economic downturn

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Preparing for a Capital Campaign Acknowledgments
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The Foundation of a Successful Capital Campaign is Built on Donor Acknowledgment

When a capital campaign isn’t successful, it usually comes back to a handful of common mistakes that organizations make. Not preparing adequately is at the top of the list.

Churches, especially, often rush into and launch a campaign too quickly. It’s understandable, but there are systems and processes to put in place to be sure you don’t miss the mark or kick off a campaign with a goal you can’t achieve.

When we consider how to best prepare our church for a campaign and the key components that help ensure success, we need to specifically look at how we treat our donors and prospects through the fundamentals of acknowledgements. Find the right posture and acknowledgment processes for your donors with these practical tips from a seasoned ministry fundraiser.

Preparing for a Capital Campaign Acknowledgments

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God's Mandate for the Church

Build a Global Missions Strategy on Any Budget

Most churches don’t have a comprehensive missions strategy. They may have a few missionaries they support, a budget line item, and maybe even a dusty document filling up a desk drawer somewhere. That is not good enough.

Your church has a holy mission—one that God has uniquely and sufficiently equipped you to fulfill.

Because ACST believes in your church and its potential to make a difference in the world, we’ve created a FREE ebook to help you get started in building your comprehensive missions strategy.

After reading God’s Mandate for The Church: What it Takes to Become a Missions Minded Church Today, you’ll:

  • Understand the biblical basis for missions.
  • Learn about the good missions accomplishes in the world today.
  • Discover five ways your church can join in God’s mission today.

So don’t wait any longer! Get your copy of God’s Mandate for The Church, and start fulfilling God’s mission in the world.

God's Mandate for the Church guide

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Raising Money for Summer Mission Trips

Most of us don’t like to ask people for money. 

But to be faithful to pursue God’s mission in the world, we’ll want to invite others to take part in that mission. Praying for you and giving to your work is an important way others can do that.

To help you with this very important yet stressful work, we’ve developed a free digital guide to raising funds for mission trips. Based on years of experience mobilizing financial partners for mission trips, this new guide will teach you how to:

  • Become an expert on the destination of your mission trip so you can better engage others in your work.
  • Make a list of people who can support your work through prayer and giving.
  • Create compelling support letters that share your mission in a way that gets others involved in your trip.
  • Develop a follow-up process that nurtures potential givers as they consider being a part of your mission trip.
  • Complete the fundraising circle by sending a thank-you note that helps your givers understand the unique part of your mission they are playing and leaves them ready to join your effort next time.

 

Asking for funds doesn’t have to be a drag. It’s a great opportunity to help others get more involved in God’s work in your community and around the world.

Raising Money for Summer Mission Trips

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your most powerful platform

Your Most Powerful Platform

Your Church Management System is likely costing you ministry opportunities.

Ministry in today’s complex environment requires a ChMS that’s powerful, people-focused, and flexible.

That’s MinistryPlatform, the most powerful ministry platform in existence.

your most powerful platform guide

In a new ministry guide we’ve prepared, we’ll tell you how MinistryPlatform is:

The most powerful platform to build the church you want.
The most powerful platform to know your people better.
The most powerful platform to do church your way.

MinistryPlatform isn’t just the right tech tool for your church right now. Designed specifically for the unique and rapidly changing needs of larger churches, we’re the right partner to help you fulfill your mission tomorrow.

We’ll show you how in our new free ministry guide.

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