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Lake Forest Church’s God-sized Capital Campaign Expands Church-planting Mission
Lake Forest Church’s God-sized Capital Campaign Expands Church-planting Mission
Feb 25, 2025 12:23:50 PM

Summary The Lake Forest Family of Churches has a heart for church planting and needed to expand the capacity of their cu...

5 Practical Ways to Grow Your Ministry Funding and Ensure Financial Sustainability
5 Practical Ways to Grow Your Ministry Funding and Ensure Financial Sustainability
Oct 4, 2024 5:52:20 PM

It’s a heartbreaking truth that many financially capable households give more to their favorite charity than their churc...

Church Health Benchmarks and Trends
Church Health Benchmarks and Trends
Aug 28, 2024 2:55:24 PM

Joe Park, CEO of Horizons Stewardship, recently had the opportunity to sit down with Tony Morgan from The Unstuck Group ...

How to Craft an Omni-Channel Donor Engagement Strategy for Your Ministry
How to Craft an Omni-Channel Donor Engagement Strategy for Your Ministry
Jun 27, 2024 8:59:42 AM

Smartphones, direct mail, email, social media, and text messages—every time you turn around, there is a new way to talk ...

Five Practical Tools to Boost Digital Engagement with Your Donors
Five Practical Tools to Boost Digital Engagement with Your Donors
May 15, 2024 1:52:00 PM

How engaged are your donors? Do they interact with your ministry as often as you’d like? Every ministry strives to have ...

Seven Keys to Great Offering Talks!
Seven Keys to Great Offering Talks!
Mar 14, 2022 1:44:00 PM

“An offering talk that is supported by a story of life change is one of the most effective tools in growing generosity I...

Why Now May Be the Best Time to Eliminate Debt and Fund Campus Upgrades
Why Now May Be the Best Time to Eliminate Debt and Fund Campus Upgrades
Mar 7, 2022 12:01:40 PM

A successful capital campaign can both eliminate nagging debt and fund much-needed campus upgrades, renovations, and def...

Church Finances: Key Mistakes Not to Make
Church Finances: Key Mistakes Not to Make
Mar 2, 2022 4:05:51 PM

Seven critical mistakes for organizations and church finances exist. In fact, they're so important that we highlighted a...

Are You Speaking the Love Language of Your Donors?
Are You Speaking the Love Language of Your Donors?
Feb 18, 2022 8:06:00 AM

In the early 1990s, Dr. Gary Chapman published The 5 Love Languages. The Secret to Love That Lasts. To date, over 20 mil...

5 Simple Ways to Reorient Thinking about Generosity
5 Simple Ways to Reorient Thinking about Generosity
Jan 25, 2022 1:41:00 PM

The idea of generosity is simple and appealing to most people, but living into it can be complicated. Unfortunately, pas...