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Help Your Church Take Action on Generosity with Mobile Giving

As believers, we all experience times when the Holy Spirit speaks to us and we are compelled to action. During those moments, we’re in good company. 

There were many times during Jesus’ earthly ministry when he was moved with compassion to help others. He stopped in the middle of a huge crowd to talk with the woman who touched the hem of his cloak (Mark 5:25–34). He passed by a man who was born blind and healed his sight (John 9). He let a woman who was an outcast wash his feet with her tears and forgave her sins (Matt 26:6–13). (more…)

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3 Steps to Make Your Church Giving Campaign Compelling

There’s a reason New Year’s resolutions like “pray more” tend to fail. “More” is vague—when will you feel like you’ve reached your resolution? And if you’re talking about a church giving campaign goals, “more” means practically nothing to your donors. [Read more…]

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3 Ways to Talk about Recurring Online Giving and Beat the Summer Slump

3 Ways to Talk About Recurring Giving and Beat the Summer Slump

Summertime doesn’t have to be a season that stretches your church funds. If you aren’t capitalizing on the ways people use mobile devices, including recurring giving, you’ll probably face the dreaded summer slump every year. Taking advantage of technology could increase giving at your church by thousands of dollars a year.

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The Me Generation Learns to Share with Mobile Giving

The generation known for its nomadic, trend-following tendencies is (somewhat) settling down and becoming (slightly) more predictable. Millennials are aging and will make up the largest demographic of the American workforce by 2020.1 According to Forbes, there are 53 million freelancers in the United States. [Read more…]

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3 Tips to Help Your Donors Love Mobile Giving

What three mobile apps do your members use most?

A recent survey shows nearly one-third of smartphone users rank their mobile banking app as their most-used app, just after social media and weather. And it’s not just the under-30 crowd that’s managing their money from their phones. Nearly half of adults in the survey are increasingly using mobile banking.1

Here are three tips for making the most of these changes when it comes to helping your members give financially. [Read more…]