Services

Generosity Audit

Together we will explore and discover opportunities to stimulate giving within your church. A one-day deep dive, spending time with your leadership team, staff and church attendees, I will measure your financials, giving reports and trends, membership statistics, past teachings and curriculum on stewardship and generosity. The deliverable is a strategic plan for embedding a generosity culture into the DNA of your ministry over the next 6 – 12 months.

Generosity Coaching

Ideally, every church would have a Generosity Pastor or Pastor of Stewardship on staff. Regrettably, most do not have the margin in their operational revenue to fund that position. I engage as a coach, your own “part time generosity pastor”, working with your leadership, creative, teaching and small group teams to develop specific strategies that foster a culture of generosity within your ministry. Accountability provides assurance that strategies will be enacted.

Ministry Expansion Projects - Capital Campaigns

I can help your staff and lay leaders enact powerful giving strategies that respect your group’s unique vision, mission and culture.

Perhaps more important than significant financial results, I help the church create a positive, faith stretching discipleship experience. My goal is to create an environment where faith is more important than finances, where the church leadership can effectively communicate the vision to the entire church, and where people are appropriately challenged to ask God what their role would be in the church expansion project. I offer several levels of service options, including:

  • Lifestyle Stewardship Campaign
  • The Discovery Campaign
  • The CORE Campaign
  • Retainer Engagements

Gift Planning

Endowment funds are permanent financial assets that can provide an increasing source of income to better enable a ministry to fulfill its mission. An effective Gift Planning program is an avenue for:

  • Gifts anyone can afford 
  • Gifts that provide income to the ministry
  • Gifts that protect donor assets

A gift planning emphasis may include:

  • Wills and Estates Seminars to stimulate bequest income
  • Creation and Funding of an endowment

  We can discuss strategies to begin or expand your gift planning program. 

Annual Fund Development

The GENERIS “Will You Grow?” initiative is designed to increase giving by helping churches move beyond stewardship drives which focus on “budget” giving. It is a simple, yet powerful, way to help the church family better understand that giving (and growth in giving) is a part of their growing relationship with Jesus Christ. It gives them a concrete, easy to understand model through which they can grow in their giving. Most churches experience a 15-25% increase in giving as a result of “Will You Grow?” (Though some churches have experienced significantly more growth).

“Will You Grow?” is not a way to pressure, manipulate or guilt people into giving. It is a way to help them better understand that giving is a spiritual act of worship; a way in which we express our love and gratitude to God. It helps the church family understand a key Biblical concept: that giving is not about the church’s need to receive funds, but about our personal need to give. It takes their eyes off of the church budget and redirects the focus of their giving back to God. It inspires generosity; it communicates a new direction of stewardship.

Assessments

Pre-campaign Assessment Study - The first step in planning a major fundraising effort is to determine if it is feasible. Before anyone is asked to make a gift you must determine:

  • The level of awareness and understanding your members have about your project
  • If and to what extent they will support it
  • The questions that exist
  • The probability of success

The Pre-Campaign Assessment Study will provide this information.

Report Card – Measuring People, Space, Time and Money – What are your attendance growth forecasts? Do you have the space to accommodate that growth? When will new space be needed so growth is not hampered? Can we afford to build what we need when we need it?

Our goal is to help churches craft long-term facility development strategies in a way that minimizes risk and maximizes ministry.  We do that by analyzing the church’s facility and capacity needs today and projecting them over a 15 to 20 year period. Combined with data about construction costs and the church’s financial resources, we can help you develop a phased strategy that effectively balances capacity needs with financial realities.  And because we use our own custom spreadsheet model to “crunch the numbers,” we can quickly evaluate many possible scenarios, so the church can explore all of the available alternatives and pick only the best for implementation.

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