Learn How Your Church Can Thrive in the New Giving Landscape
Discover creative strategies for enhancing your church’s discipleship and financial health through our webinar, "How to Thrive in the New Giving Landscape." This webinar guides pastors and church leaders through the latest trends in church giving, including engaging the different generations of givers and managing non-cash contributions. Christian Stewardship Network's Leo Sabo along with MortarStone's Tim Deatrick and DeWayne McNally, share actionable insights and tools for creating a sustainable culture of generosity in your community.
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Measure to Manage (and Achieve) Your Financial Stewardship Goals
We had the honor of presenting at CSN's 2024 Forum with board member Donna Nicholson-Stief. Our session encouraged everyone to think beyond measuring generosity and track the success of their financial stewardship efforts. We recognize that it is more challenging than measuring generosity. In fact, 57% of churches surveyed reported that they don't track their efforts. However, it could be one of the most important steps you take to assess the health of financial stewardship in your church and its long-term viability.
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Reasons Your People Aren't Giving and What You Can Do About It
A troubling church statistic that seems not to be improving is the number of people not giving anything measurable to their church. Have you asked yourself why a significant number of your congregation isn’t giving? We have, too! To answer that question, Dave Briggs, the Stewardship Director at Central Christian Church in Phoenix, AZ, decided to do a year-long study to better understand this phenomenon. He joins us in this webinar to share his findings and offer some things church leaders can do to reverse this trend.
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Wills & Trusts: A Ministry for Every Church Member
In this webinar, our friends Donna Nicholson Stief from LCBC Church in Pennsylvania and Clay Perkins from Financial Planning Ministry share with you how estate planning is not just an excellent resource for your church members but also a ministry that gives people peace and allows them to steward their wealth and give generously at the end of life.
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A Missing Ministry - What the Church Needs to Know to Identify and Disciple Those with Abundance
In this webinar, David Thoroughman and Tim Dieatrick from MortarStone and Leo Sabo from CSN host an enlightening webinar about national giving trends and what you should know as it relates to funding your ministry for the next generation using 2000-year-old biblical teachings with current-day application. In this webinar, we will teach you how to develop a ministry of non-cash giving similar to para-ministries and non-faith non-profits. Whether you are a pastor, stewardship leader, or involved in financial discipleship, this webinar will equip you with practical tools, strategies, and insights to transform giving to your church. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners and industry experts as you embark on a journey to unlock new levels of stewardship and discipleship within your congregation.
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2023 Stewardship Survey Initial Findings
Economic uncertainty and declining church attendance and giving have left churches reconsidering their approach to stewardship and generosity.
In our second annual joint Stewardship Survey, Vision2 and Christian Stewardship Network have once again collected data on how churches are addressing these challenges. This year’s results reveal the beginnings of a shift that we can’t wait to share with you.
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Why Your Church Needs A Stewardship Pastor
Every church desires to have a culture of generosity with engaged people serving their community and the world. Of course, that doesn't happen automatically. Leadership has to cultivate and nurture the seeds that will create such a culture intentionally, and that's precisely where the Stewardship Pastor is instrumental. In this CSN Webinar, you will learn how a Stewardship Pastor can assist in developing a strategy for financial discipleship to support the church's mission and ministries.
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From Insights to Action: How Your Church Can Use Data to Make Better Decisions and Grow Disciples
Giving data can be a powerful tool for your church to use in making informed decisions and growing disciples. By understanding the giving patterns of your congregation, you can identify trends and make informed decisions about how to allocate resources, plan events, and develop outreach programs. More importantly, you can identify pastoral opportunities to offer more support, guidance, or encouragement in your people's spiritual journey. In this CSN webinar, we learned how giving data can help your church gain valuable insights to make better decisions and grow disciples.
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How to Have A Compelling Offering Moment
As stewardship leaders, we understand the importance of generosity in the life of the believer. The world is bombarding Christians with messages of spending on whatever their heart desires, and it's working. In a typical week, church leaders have perhaps 60 to 90 seconds to encourage their congregation to give to God's work. This Offering Moment has to combat the relentless message of consumerism and break through to the heart of generosity that often lays dormant in God's people. In this webinar, you will learn how to share a compelling offering moment grounded in God's word so that your people will be encouraged to put God first in their lives and give generously to His work.
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Building a Next-Gen Stewardship Roadmap
In today’s “New Normal,” churches are experiencing decreasing attendance rates and share of overall charitable giving. To help churches respond to these challenges, Christian Stewardship Network and Vision2 together surveyed churches of all sizes and denominations to collect a meaningful set of stewardship insights. Our goal is to use survey results to develop essential tools and benchmarks.
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Good Sense Coaches Training Program
Financial coaching is an area of ministry that takes a lot of effort, time, and manpower. To do it well, you have to have good volunteers and a great system to ensure the best opportunity for each client to succeed. In this episode, we’re talking with James Lenhoff from Good Sense Movement about their Coaches Training, a comprehensive online program that provides the features and benefits to prepare coaches to guide their clients from financial bondage to financial freedom successfully.
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The Future of Church Funding
Due to economic uncertainty, persistent disruption, and changing technology, church giving has changed. You need to know how to approach church giving differently. Are you ready? Your next step is important. In this webinar, we talk with Joe Park, the Principal, and CEO of Horizons Stewardship, about creative ways to fund your church ministry.
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The Impact of Stewardship Teaching In The Church
Stewardship Education, teaching people God's word on money and wealth, is an essential aspect of discipleship that every church should engage in. In this video, we talk with Chris Goulard and Dave Briggs about the Stewardship Impact Workshop and why they believe every church leader needs to attend this training. This workshop was explicitly created for church leaders to help them learn the theology of stewardship and generosity and learn how to incorporate a stewardship ministry in their church.
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The Church’s Responsibility and Opportunity to Teach on Investing
The Scriptures provide wisdom for every area of life, including investing. Yet, it is rare to hear a sermon or teaching on the topic in The Church, and it seems pastors perceive the subject of money and wealth as too unspiritual to include in their weekend messages. Meanwhile, the world continues to guide and influence God’s people daily on how they should make, spend, and invest their money, mostly void of the Biblical principles found in God’s word. In this video, we talk about investing with Matt Bell from Sound Mind Investing to understand the Church’s responsibility, as well as an excellent opportunity to teach God’s people how to invest according to God’s design.
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Strategies for Improving your Impact on the Next Generation
How can the church come alongside the next generation to not only help them steward their finances but also to help them grow spiritually and realize the importance of biblical stewardship in God's Kingdom?
In this video, we discuss the perspective, strengths, and challenges of millennials as it relates to finances and stewardship so that we can develop strategies that will draw them in and create a powerful generation of passionate givers
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Investing Discussion with Matt Bell
Investing is an important part of stewardship. The Bible is clear on saving for the future and it provides several principles to guide us. In this video, I'm joined by Matt Bell from Sound Mind Investing to discuss the importance of investing and how to do it with the right heart and the proper motivation.
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Money and Emotions Discussion with Chris Goulard and Leo Sabo
In this video, Chris and Leo discuss the negative and positive emotions around dealing with money. Fear, shame, happiness, and contentment, are but a few emotions that we feel when managing money. Being more aware of our emotional triggers, can help us to course-correct when necessary, and experience more fulfillment and joy.
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