Author: Patrick
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Church Plant Freebie Friday – Signup Genius
Signup Genius is a great FREE tool for organizing your church plant prayer team and/or volunteers around events, projects, etc. Here are a couple of ways you could use it: Church Plant Outreach Events Your launch team is participating in a local community event and you need people to take 1-hour shifts during a 6-hour […]
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Don’t Let Your Buddy Do Your Church Plant Website
Publishing your church plant website has become an important part of the planting process here in the States. Everyone is going to check out who you are and what you’re about through your website, and usually very early in their relationship with you. Having a website establishes you in the community, helps you communicate, and […]
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Church Plant Finances
Your church plant needs to have some money-handling procedures in place to create an environment of trust and protect your staff & volunteers from accusation. Your church plant is seeing contributions come in from outside supporters and local givers. Different people are handling the checks (and sometimes cash) that are donated. Someone’s got to balance […]
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Church Plant Financial Audit
What’s the Problem? You want to handle your church plant finances with utmost integrity. But sometimes expediency or a situation that may feel like ‘necessity’ lures planters into sloppy financial practices. Do you want to be able to assure supporters & local givers that their investment in the Kingdom is being put to best use? […]
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Use a Password Manager
With the advent of Web 2.0 and all of our apps being in the Cloud, I’m sure your online accounts have multiplied exponentially like mine. Now mine’s an extreme case, perhaps, because I work with so many planters all the time. But I just crossed the 1,000 logins mark. Yeah, like I’m going to remember […]
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Does Direct Mail Still Work?
I asked several of my church planters recently, “Does direct mail still work?” and here are their real-world experiences: We have had a GREAT responses to mailers, and we have had a so-so responses to mailers. Here is the key: send 5 pieces of mail per house for the response you want. If you have […]
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Electronic Offering Voucher
One of the residual objections to using online giving at your church plant will be from people who like to make the offering an active, participatory part of the worship service. “If they just deduct it from my checking account, it doesn’t feel like giving.” Give Them Something to Give In light of the many […]
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FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Sitegeist
Free Demographics App Want the quick & dirty lowdown on the community where you’re church planting? Sitegeist is the free app for your mobile device that gives you quick insight into: People Housing Fun Weather History Available now in the App Store and Google Play. It’s another free & easy way to learn about your […]