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  • How’s YOUR church doing, compared to these percentages? More at LifewayResearch.com.

    How’s YOUR church doing, compared to these percentages? More at LifewayResearch.com.

    Generosity Money Finances Stewardship
  • Four Reasons Why Pastors Should Make More Money →

    Casey Graham writes: This post is a passion of mine because I am sick of seeing pastors distracted from the work of the ministry to pay the bills. We work with millions of dollars of church budgets…

    Church Staff Salary Generosity
  • Comparison: Was Your Giving Down the last week of 2009? →

    In his statement last week giving the reason for his $900k plea, Rick Warren wrote:  “The cause of our financial shortfall was… simply by the way Christmas occurred in this year’s calendar. After 10 packed Christmas services, and with Christmas Day on Friday, many people were out of town or too tired to come back for weekend services, so the unusually low attendance created an unusually low offering.”  Just wondering… was your attendance and offering unusually low on December 27?

    I’d love to hear how your church did. Please leave a comment below…

    Rick Warren Saddleback Church Generosity
  • Creative Use of Generosity in Church Haiti Donation... →

    The church is giving each member of their congregation an envelope with anywhere from 5 to 100 dollars… Church members are then supposed to try make a profit with that money and bring the money…

    Generosity Haiti
  • How Lean is YOUR Church? →

    No, this question isn’t about New Year’s resolutions triggered by holiday weight gain. Leadership Network is trying to learn about healthy ways churches keep staff costs down. If you’ll take a few…

    Generosity Church Staff
  • Rick Warren Asks for $900k, Receives $2.4 million! →

    It all started last Wednesday when Rick Warren posted an urgen plea on the Saddleback Church website:  “THIS IS AN URGENT LETTER unlike any I’ve written in 30 years. Please read all of it and get back to me in the next 48 hours.”

    In the letter to the Saddleback family, Warren asked the church to help make up for a year-end $900k shortfall.

    After a media and blog firestorm, an update to the initial post was made, giving…

    Rick Warren Generosity Saddleback Church