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It’s incredible how much charitable giving happens at the end of the year. In a 2014 Network for Good study, they discovered that 21 percent of all charitable giving occurred in December—and 12 pe.

If your church is located in an area with extreme weather patterns, you probably already have a clear inclement weather policy—even if things need to get pretty intense for you to make any drastic c.

The Christmas season can be a source of anxiety for a lot of churches—especially if their previous year was a success. You want to do something new, different, and exciting, but mostly, you want to .

Christmas is a special time of year for churches. It’s one of the three seasons (along with Easter and Mother’s Day) most likely to bring in visitors, but it also invokes seasonal emotions that ma.

If you’re a pastor, you know what it’s like to blink and realize it’s Christmas season again. Suddenly, it’s upon you, and you have to turn your attention to that critical month—the time of .

Recurring givers are truly a blessing to your church. They not only donate 42% more than one-time donors, but during the ups and downs of giving throughout the year, you can depend on your core group .

If you have a church app but aren’t utilizing push notifications, you might be ignoring one of its most powerful features. Your app is an effective tool, but only if people are using it. If your .

While Christmas and Thanksgiving are moments we carve out of each year for celebration, togetherness, and family, they can also be distracted by consumerism. Lots of food, lots of gifts, and lots of d.

You don't get to call a timeout in ministry. You can’t hit pause, or ask people to only have pastoral needs during office hours. Because of the constant demands of ministry, your church technology n.

Bethel World Outreach Church in Brentwood, TN, has an ambitious mission statement: Reaching a city to touch the world. It’s not hard to argue that they’re achieving it though. With three l.

Church and technology don’t always seem like an obvious match, but we’ve realized how much more the Church can achieve when great tech is added to the mix. Newcomers to a church can explore differ.

Centrepoint Church in suburban Perth, Australia, didn’t get its name by accident. When Joel and Sharon Chelliah started the church in 2006, Western Australia, the state where Perth is located, .