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AG Financial Stewardship Consulting helps ministries bridge the gap to their vision by creating a movement of generosity within your organization. Part of this process involves making sure that it is simple for people to financially partner with you. Electronic giving is one effective way to develop a broad base of financial ministry supporters. Here are the first five of ten suggestions to help boost your organization’s electronic giving.

1. Have a Simple Solution

a. Make sure you have a simple, effective, secure, and easy-to-use system in place. A good system should allow people to easily track and change their giving. If they want to increase their monthly donations or start to give money to missions it should be simple.

b. Make sure your system supports and focuses on reoccurring giving.

c. If you have a service in place, ask your people what they like and dislike about it. Use that feedback to improve it.

d. If you do not offer online and on-site electronic options, then do some research on best practices in that field or let us recommend some options to you to get this established.

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David Messner and I were recently able to attend a service at the People’s Church down in Oklahoma City. That particular morning Herbert Cooper was sharing on how he quit “cheating” on his wife. He talked about the two seasons in his life where he spent so much time working on the ministry, specifically on two building campaigns, that he was in a sense cheating on his family. During the sermon he looked at 1 Timothy 3:4-5 – 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full[a] respect. 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) Pastor Cooper pointed out that Paul indicates here that a pastor should first take care of his family and then take care of God’s family.

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