2 things I want to share with to this morning: 1. I'm leading a tele-seminar on December 8th (1 weeks from today) called, "Connecting New Believers". With Christmas around the corner, we need to be ready to follow up with those who decide to follow Jesus during our Christmas outreaches. I'm going to lay out the system we use for following up with new believers. We've seen over 1,000 people make first time decisions at Calvary in the last 18 months, so this is an area of strength for us. I want it to be an area of strength for … Read More
The Pre-Black Friday Sale Continues today!
In case you missed the announcement, we're having a pre-Black Friday sale! So between now and Friday, you can save 40% on some best selling www.church-strategies.com downloadable resources! Just enter the coupon code thanks and we'll take 40% off these resources! Check out the list of resources on sale: 21st Century Outreach Strategies Laying the Foundation The Pillars of a Healthy Church The Productive Leader The Zero to Sixty Seminar Serving Strategies The Cash Crunch Church Planting Pitfalls The Portable Church Challenge Trees (Christmas Series) Retro Christmas (Christmas Series) Vintage Wisdom (Proverbs) Uncensored (Habakkuk) Frequency (Hearing God's Voice) Fuel (2 Timothy) Go Green (Stewardship) Stripped (Song of Solomon) … Read More
The Pre-Black Friday Sale
It's getting close to Thanksgiving and we decided to have a pre-Black Friday sale! Here's what that means: between now and Friday, you can save 40% on some best selling www.church-strategies.com downloadable resources! Just enter the coupon code thanks and we'll take 40% off these resources! What's on sale? Check out this list: 21st Century Outreach Strategies Laying the Foundation The Pillars of a Healthy Church The Productive Leader The Zero to Sixty Seminar Serving Strategies The Cash Crunch Church Planting Pitfalls The Portable Church Challenge Trees (Christmas Series) Retro Christmas (Christmas Series) Vintage Wisdom (Proverbs) Uncensored (Habakkuk) Frequency (Hearing God's Voice) Fuel (2 Timothy) Go Green (Stewardship) Stripped … Read More
Is Your Church Healthy? Free Report
I just got done writing a brand new special report called, "Is your church healthy?" In it, I talk about the 6 pillars that leaders need to establish for a church to be healthy. I have found in churches that I work with, when a church is unhealthy it's because one of these 6 things is either missing or out of whack. You can get the free report here.
5 Insights for Promoting Christmas Eve
With Christmas Eve around the corner and lots of churches planning to do direct mail, I thought I'd share 5 things about effective direct mail that was NOT in the direct mail piece I received at my house yesterday: 1. It wasn't in English (even though I speak Spanish fluently, English is still my first language) 2. There were 5 dates on this postcard (it was letting me know the title of every week of the series and the date they would be taught). Instead, give me the big picture of the series, write copy that will pique my curiosity … Read More
Connecting New Believers
We have a great opportunity to reach a lot of people this Christmas who are far from God. But what will keep them from falling through the cracks is having a system to help them take their step steps. That's why on Wednesday, December 8th @ 1PM EST I'm leading a tele-seminar called "Connecting New Believers" where I'm going to lay out step by step how we go about connecting those who make decisions to follow Jesus at Calvary. We've seen over 1,000 people decide to follow Jesus in the last 18 months at Calvary and I ant to … Read More
How we Budget…
It's season. What's here? Budgeting Season! That means most of the next 4-6 weeks will involve meetings, spreadsheets, and talk of the upcoming year. I thought some might be interested in our budgeting process: 1. Give everyone a Quickbooks prints out of what has been spent in their departments for 2010 to date and all of 2009. 2. Talk about the vision for the next year and where each ministry fits into that. 3. Give everyone 3 weeks to put together their 2011 budgets 4. During that time, I am working on a 2011 overall budget number with our Pastors … Read More
There’s 24 Hours Left!
Just a quick reminder that our 48 hours birthday sale ends tomorrow. I'm going to give everyone 37% off a bunch of resources at the www.church-strategies.com store. Just use the code birthday and we'll take 37% off the sale resources. What resources are on sale? Check it out: - The Tithe Challenge - 21st Century Outreach Strategies - The Cash Crunch - Serving Strategies - The Portable Church Challenge - Church Planting Pitfalls - The Zero to Sixty Seminar - Laying the Foundation - Calvary Fellowship Employee Manual - Church By-laws - The Complete Membership System - The New Believer's Class - Plus all downloadable sermon series! But this sale ends on my birthday … Read More
The 48 Hour Birthday Sale!
It's my 37th birthday on Thursday and I decided to celebrate by giving everyone an opportunity to pick up some www.church-strategies.com resources for 37% off! Just use the code birthday and we'll take 37% off the sale resources. What resources are on sale? Check it out: - The Tithe Challenge - 21st Century Outreach Strategies - The Cash Crunch - Serving Strategies - The Portable Church Challenge - Church Planting Pitfalls - The Zero to Sixty Seminar - Laying the Foundation - Calvary Fellowship Employee Manual - Church By-laws - The Complete Membership System - The New Believer's Class - Plus all downloadable sermon series! But this sale ends on my birthday (which is … Read More
Some Direct Mail Tips
Here's 4 tips that will greatly help you the next time your church does a direct mail campaign: 1. Keep any direct mail that you like. It doesn't matter what it's advertising. Great direct mail is always a source of good ideas. 2. Keep the "worst of the worst" direct mail you get. A lot of church mail tends to fall in this category unfortunately. But this file of direct mail will remind you what sins you should never commit. 3. Political mail – I am seeing some amazing political direct mail this time of year. It doesn't matter the … Read More
