As you know, I spend a lot of time coaching church planters. Some launched earlier this year, some are launching this Fall and some will launch in 2010.
One thing I love telling my church planters about is Casey Graham and the services of The Change Group. Now whether you’re a brand new church or an established, older church, Casey’s team can be a huge blessing to you. As he always says, What you stay awake worrying about, we wake up thinking about!
Casey and his team can do: quarterly CFO consulting, build monthly financial dashboards, and provide weekly bookkeeping for less than it cost to hire a part time staff member! I’d encourage you to get to know them. I’ve invited Casey to do a guest post on here.
Guest Post by Casey Graham:
Life Giving Finances
My name is Casey Graham and I am one of the Co-Founders of The Change Group. Over the past year we have worked with so many churches to help them increase their operational revenue and manage their finances. I believe everything we do should be LIFE GIVING (John 10:10) and that goes with our finances as well. I just wanted to take a minute and talk about three things every church can do today that will make a big difference tomorrow.
1. Personal Generosity
Nothing will increase your passion for helping people find life through generosity more than you modeling it. Developing a culture is not rocket science! Who you are is who your people will become.
2. Life Giving Offerings
When you stand up to talk about the offering, don’t “beg” for dollars. Help people understand that every dollar they give goes to change lives! Help people connect their money to the different ministries. People will want to give to that.
3. Appreciate People
One of the most life giving things you can do financially is say thank you. When it comes to the area of money in church we can’t show favoritism but we can appreciate what people do. Have dinner night at your home and invite your top twenty donors to your home. Give to them, cook for them, love on them and really believe in them. Also, you can thank you first time givers with a hand written thank you card. Appreciate anything and everything that people give! You can’t do what you do without them!
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