Today I have one more FAQ about your Christmas Offering…

Should we divide our Christmas Offering over multiple “causes” or would it be more impactful to focus on one single cause?

This is a common question (and a good one), but it’s actually more effective to have multiple causes.

What I like about raising funds for three items is that it connects with more people.

Let’s say you focus on missions – it’s possible that some folks would connect with that item while others wouldn’t (and thereby not give).

But if you did missions and children’s ministry – well, now you get the missions folks and those with a heart for kids.

Three items – same principle.

It gets more people involved AND it provides funds for each of these ministry areas!

I wouldn’t do more than three causes the first time out – definitely missions and then something that focuses on your city or region (Community Service/Feeding the Poor perhaps) and something internal (paving the parking lot, purchasing a new sign, etc.).

Don’t spread yourself too thin AND don’t narrow your focus too tightly, and you can see a great result of funding for your church and spiritual growth in the people who call your church home!

P.S. For the ultimate guide to planning & conducting your Christmas Offering (including the steps to choosing the right causes & several examples), click the link below to secure your copy of ”How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering”:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/offering

Don’t wait too long – this resource is only available through November 19

The early response to the 2012 debut of my “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” resource has been great – thanks to all who’ve already secured yours!

To celebrate, I’m sharing some Christmas Offering FAQ’s this week – here’s one I hear from time to time:

If we start the offering around Thanksgiving and run it into (or through) January, should we really call it a “Christmas Offering?”

The concept of this special offering is about helping people stretch spiritually and fund Kingdom efforts at a time when they’re in the giving spirit in general.

That’s why I use the term “Christmas Offering” to describe this type of offering in my training and discussions.

That being said, you can call it whatever you think will best connect with your people.

If you’re planning to allow people to give to it into the new year, “Christmas Offering” may not be as compelling.

And allowing people to give into the month of January is a good strategy – because some people will be able to give more after the first of the year!

At The Journey we typically refer to it as our “special offering” or “annual offering,” because we often extend it through January.

P.S. For all the details on setting up your Christmas Offering (including when to start and stop it), click the link below to secure your copy of ”How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering”:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/offering

It’s just been updated with all my learnings from 2011 and the latest files for 2012!

Don’t delay – it’s only available through November 19

At Church Leader Insights, this is the first week of 2012 that you can pick up my freshly updated “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” resource!

It’s only available for the next 3 weeks because NOW is the time to plan your church’s Christmas Offering.

Not sure about what a Christmas Offering is?

It’s simply a special offering given during a set period of time around Christmas that encourages people to give over and above their regular tithes and offerings.

And as I’ve seen for years now (at The Journey and in hundreds of other churches), the results are tremendous.

A well planned and executed Christmas Offering:

• Helps your people grow by giving sacrificially
• Enables your church to give more to missions
• Supports worthy causes inside and outside of your church
• Allows you to raise 2-4 times your weekly budget!

So, this week I’m going to post a few of the most common Christmas Offering questions (and answers) in celebration of the resource’s 2012 debut.

Perhaps the most common question I get from pastors is…

If we promote a Christmas Offering, won’t that negatively impact our regular budget offering?

I hear this question all the time, and the answer is NO.

In most cases, if you carefully and prayerfully determine the causes you’re raising money for, there will not be a negative impact on your regular tithes and offerings.

Like so many yes or no questions in leadership, however, there is a “BUT.”

BUT you will have to clearly and repeatedly remind your people that the Christmas Offering is above and beyond their regular giving.

Remember, that’s one of the biggest reasons WHY you’re doing a Christmas Offering in the first place: to help your people grow by giving sacrificially.

Along these same lines -

I’ve noticed that the Christmas Offering is the first gift a lot of people ever give to our church, so as we follow up with them, thank them for their gift and help connect the dots between their giving and what God’s doing through our church, they often become our most extravagant givers…

So, no, the Christmas Offering doesn’t limit your regular Tithes and Offerings (if presented properly).  Not to mention, in the long run it has the potential to bring in a bunch of new givers who will continue to give long after this special offering has past.

P.S. For more detailed, step-by-step training on how to plan, implement, promote and follow up on your Christmas Offering, click the link below to secure your copy of the updated for 2012 ”How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering”:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/offering

Hurry – it’s only available for a limited time!

It has been exciting to hear feedback on how this series of Blog Posts on “Developing Extravagant Givers” is already helping many of you. Today’s topic has the ability to make a significant impact. Open your heart as you look at “How to Develop a Culture of Generosity” 

To begin, you must see that setting the stage for a successful stewardship system requires a culture of generosity in your church. Generosity is an often intangible force that trickles down from you to your people, and results in specific actions.

As your people see you being generous with resources to support them, make them more comfortable and give them the best opportunity to grow, they will begin to adopt that same spirit of generosity. Your people will act in the same vein and approach giving in the manner that the church demonstrates it.

How do we do this? By modeling the outward expression of a generous heart. And yes, we are called to give to our people – sacrificially, even. How will people ever see or understand God’s generosity? As the church, we simply need to model it.

God spares nothing for our sakes, as is evidenced by Jesus’ death on the cross (John 3:16; Phil. 2:8). And he also promises that he will provide for us abundantly (John 10:10). It’s surprising how many churches withhold good things from their people from a fear that they will run out of money!

I am often amazed by what churches attach a price tag to. I came across churches who would charge new believers for New Believer Bibles and churches who would charge $.50 for a cup of coffee before the service. What missed opportunities to till the soil of people’s hearts by ministering freely to them!

Approaching ministry with such a scarcity mentality robs the church of its chance to shine generosity. Instead, remember what Jesus teaches us in Luke 6:38, “Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full – pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.” As church leaders, let’s remember that this applies to the corporate ministry of the church.

The average unchurched Joe on the street sees the church as an institution that is always asking people to give. When Average Joe gets invited to your church, you have an opportunity to change that mentality. What if we could “wow” people with our unexpected generosity, all the while reflecting the depths of God’s generous heart?

What if your church could become known in your community as the church that gives rather than the church that takes? What a profound impact that would have on creating a culture of generosity within your church and a reputation of generosity beyond your doors.

Since our first days, we have made an intentional decision at The Journey to focus on exemplifying God’s provision through generosity. Living with an open hand has not always been easy; we’ve been stretched. But the rewards of generosity are well worth the effort and expense. We’ve grown, our people have grown, the church has grown, and the culture of generosity that has been established permeates every area of our ministry. Here are just a few examples of the ways we try to go over and above in modeling generosity:

- We give a free book to all of our first-time guests at the service

- We send a free Starbucks card to all of our first-time guests, through the mail

- We offer unlimited coffee and donuts at every service

- We send a free gift to everyone who gives for the first time

- We give a free book to everyone who signs up for a fall (campaign) growth group

- We give free movie tickets to people who bring first-time guests on special occasions

-  We give away free CDs that are relevant to the day’s teaching topic

- We put free resources and materials online

- We provide free breakfast and/or lunch for our Sunday volunteers

- We offer free seminary-level classes for all of our growth group leaders

- We put ads in widely-read newspapers

- We do frequent mailings to the community

- We reach out to hundreds of thousands of people annually through servant evangelism, which involves blanketing the community with free granola bars or bottles of water and postcard invitations to The Journey

Pastors often ask me, “How do you pay for all of that?” My answer is short and simple: The fruit is in the harvest. I can’t afford not to do it. If I refused to foster an atmosphere of generosity at The Journey, I would be cutting off God’s blessing and closing down people’s hearts. I would be lessening the likelihood that people would visit our church for the first time and then go on to become fully engaged followers of Christ.

I have a responsibility to give people the best possible opportunity to meet Jesus. Part of that process requires being generous with the resources God gives me to do his work. God is not a God of scarcity. If I am called to be more like his son and to be his representative on this earth, I certainly can’t be a leader of scarcity. Time and time again, God honors the generous seeds we scatter, and The Journey – not to mention the overall kingdom – reaps tremendous fruit.

I truly hope that this blog today has been helpful to expand your heart towards generosity and that it would open a great door of generosity in your church.

Keep your eye on this blog for a few more weeks for even more on proper biblical stewardship.

Also, if you are not yet signed up for my Stewardship Coaching Network, it only takes a few minutes. Click HERE to register. But you must hurry, this network will fill up.

Nelson

PS – Join other Pastors like yourself who are truly concerned with seeing their people discipled in the area of Stewardship by joining my upcoming 9-month Stewardship Coaching Network where I will walk you through the steps to systematically help your people advance in the area of giving.

I am starting my NEW 9-month stewardship coaching network on May 8th and to help everyone prepare for it, we are looking at some of the assumptions that need to be made. Today we are looking at the role the Teaching Pastor plays in Corporate Stewardship.

Assumption 2: The pastor’s personal stewardship often hinders them from talking about church stewardship.

In working with thousands of church leaders over the last decade, I have seen that as a pastor learns to become a good steward of their personal resources, the church begins to experience increase in their finances  as well. Part of this upcoming network will be to help pastors become good stewards to be able to experience healthy finances in their church.

We are called to be Godly managers of our households, but most of us focus the bulk of that management energy on being good spouses and good parents. We conveniently ignore truths such as, “the borrower is servant to the lender,” (Proverbs 22:7).

We don’t like to dissect how we are managing our houses financially, even though our actions have direct impact on our churches. If we aren’t careful, our personal stewardship habits can be the lid on our church’s stewardship potential.

I learned this lesson first hand when I moved to New York to start The Journey. Working my way along the ministry track over the preceding few years, I had accumulated some debt. Just after Kelley and I got to New York and began preparing for The Journey’s launch, I felt God telling me that I should get rid of that debt. I had this unshakable sense that I couldn’t start and lead a new church with zeal if I was enslaved to creditors.

I wasn’t excited by this revelation. Remember, I had just moved to the most expensive place in the country, and I had sacrificed all of my savings and most of my possessions for the privilege. But God was insistent. So I put together a 36-month plan for getting my financial house in order.

God blessed my humble effort so greatly that Kelley and I were out of debt within 18 months. (For the full audio teaching on my 36-month plan, listen to the “Debt Free Pastor” download.)

In sharing my story with other pastor-friends, I realized I wasn’t the only one who had dealt with debt. The truth is that most pastors could use some help in this area. So, I challenge you to take a hard look at your financial health.

Here’s one thing I know: Until we have our own finances under control, we won’t be able to shepherd our people into biblical stewardship with any conviction or integrity. 

Keep your eye on this blog for the next several weeks for even more on proper biblical stewardship.

Also, if you are not yet signed up for my Stewardship Coaching Network, it only takes a few minutes. Click HERE to register. But you must hurry, the Early Bird rate ends THIS Sunday, April 15th.

Nelson

PS – Join other Pastors like yourself who are truly concerned with seeing their people discipled in the area of Stewardship by joinging my upcoming 9-month Stewardship Coaching Network where I will walk you through the steps to systematically help your people advance in the area of giving. Join now to get the Early Bird Price.

I have been looking through several of my stewardship resources in preparation for my 9-month stewardship coaching network and thought it might be helpful to you if I shared some of the ideas on this blog. We will start this week looking at one assumption that needs to be made.

Assumption 1: Our church members are poorly trained on the foundations of biblical stewardship.

When it comes to the truth about stewardship, a big, black hole of ignorance hangs over our people’s heads. They don’t know what they don’t know, and there are numerous tools that we can put in place to help them. This is one of the reasons why I am starting my Stewardship Coaching Network.

I will detail a plan for growing people up in financial knowledge and accountability. We will talk in depth about creating an atmosphere of generosity that models corporate stewardship, as it cultivates individualstewards.

On a side note, as you begin implementing the system we will discuss, I want to encourage you to start using your members’ level of stewardship as a means of gauging their spiritual growth. Unlike some of the other spiritual disciplines we talk about so often, such as daily time in the Bible and prayer, stewardship is something we can teach on and then track.

We can observe the extent to which our people digest and apply the teaching. We can train our people on immersing themselves in scripture, but we have no idea whether or not they really are. We can exhort prayer until we are blue in the face, but we have no way to measure the health of someone’s prayer life.

We can never really know how often, or how effectively, people are sharing their faith with their friends. Stewardship, however, gives us a unique opportunity to keep our finger on the pulse of someone’s spiritual development.

When we see someone growing in how much they give, this generally implies a step of spiritual growth. If someone who has given sporadically at best begins tithing faithfully, we know God is working in her life. This gauge also works the other way. If someone who used to give faithfully has stopped giving, we can be sure something is wrong.

Around The Journey, my staff and I have been able to head off potential heartaches and problems before they hit by checking in on someone whose giving has dropped significantly. Now, this is not a black and white tellall, but it is a good thing to keep your eye on.

The interesting thing about discipleship is that people can be very mature in one area and still immature in another. I’m sure you have run into those who are extremely mature in biblical knowledge, but have not given a dime in twenty years. Or you may find people who are mature in the area of finances, but are immature when it comes to relationship practices in scripture.

Obviously, this is a sliding scale. But taken for the measurement it is, keeping up with your people’s level of stewardship will prove to be a helpful tool in knowing where their hearts are.

I think that is enough on stewardship for today’s post. Keep your eye on this blog for the next several weeks as I continue covering some assumptions to help prepare our churches for proper biblical stewardship.

Also, if you are not yet signed up for my Stewardship Coaching Network, it only takes a few minutes. Click HERE to register.

Nelson

PS – Join other Pastors like yourself who are truly concerned with seeing their people discipled in the area of Stewardship by joinging my upcoming 9-month Stewardship Coaching Network where I will walk you through the steps to systematically help your people advance in the area of giving. Join now to get the Early Bird Price.

My little book The Generosity Ladder: Your Next Step to Financial Peace, continues to help more and more churches and I want to say Thank You to all who already picked it up for yourself and for the people in your church.

AND, with Black Friday behind us now, ’tis the season for savings – I just found out that Direct2Church.com is offering HALF OFF cases of The Generosity Ladder!

This book is a great tool for you to use to help educate your people on the truth of Biblical giving, and now you can order bulk copies for your church at 50% Off.

Click here to order bulk copies of The Generosity Ladder for your church at 50% Off

Once again, thanks for all of your support and I hope this book helps you raise the level of stewardship (and discipleship) in your church!

Over the past three weeks I’ve been giving away some of the tips to planning a Christmas Offering taken directly from my new “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” resource.

Today, I’m sharing with you the four steps to an effective offering.  There are only 3 business days left before the resource and videos are gone and I really want to help you with this.

So let me give you an overview of this clear, step-by-step process:

Step 1 – I will help you clearly define your Christmas Offering.

Sharing a clear definition of your Christmas Offering will allow you to train and inform your leaders.

Having a clear “why” from the beginning will insure that everyone is on-board and fully engaged in the process.

I even give you four reasons why you should conduct a Christmas Offering so you’re fully prepared for any questions that you or your leadership may ask.

Step 2 – I’ll walk through each element of pre-planning.

 Pre-planning is the key to an effective Christmas Offering.

My experience over more than a decade of leading these offerings has given me a unique perspective on everything that you need to prepare to make your offering successful.

I’ll help you prayerfully calculate the goal for your Christmas Offering, select the start and end dates, and even suggest ten potential causes that your church can support through your offering, including:

• National Missions
• International missions
• Church Planting
• Evangelism
• Benevolence Fund
• Outreach to Needy
• Counseling Efforts
• Children’s Ministry
• Student Ministry
• Seniors Ministry
• Multi-site Location

Just imagine your church’s increased Kingdom impact by supporting 2-3 (up to 5) of these causes, above and beyond your current support!

Step 3 – I give you the plan and all the materials you need to promote your own Christmas Offering.

 Many Christmas Offerings fail simply because the promotion is not clear.

 I’ve had my graphic designer professionally design our materials so that you can update them and use them yourself with minimal effort – saving you hundreds of dollars.

We will walk together through a sample Christmas Offering calendar – Kick-off Sunday through Celebration Sunday, and every week in between!

You’ll even receive sample letters, emails, and mail pieces that we use at The Journey to promote and follow up with everyone in your church.

Step 4 – I’ll help you to see the “who” of the Christmas Offering.

It’s important to challenge your church that this offering is not about “equal gifts” – it’s about “equal sacrifice.”

I’ll share how everyone in your church can participate and how you can  motivate them all to get involved.

Plus, I will teach you the key to full church engagement, and the specific roles of the senior pastor, staff and other key leaders.

In addition to these four steps, I even give you a BONUS Q & A where I answer the 7 most common questions about conducting a Christmas Offering.

For example, how can you celebrate the offering even when you don’t reach your goal?  I’ll share the answer to that question and six others that often come up during the process.

As you can see from the step-by-step process above, you have to begin now to maximize your impact!

Secure your fully downloadable copy of “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” right now at the link below:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/offering

NOTE: You will NOT be able to obtain this new Christmas Offering resource after Monday, October 31st. I don’t want to do you a disservice by not giving you enough time to plan and prepare.

Don’t miss this opportunity!

Nelson

P.S. In addition to this powerful checklist, the nearly three hours of audio training, and dozens of documents and files included in the resource itself, I also recorded three videos to help you get started:

Video #1 – Why Do a Christmas Offering?
I outline for you each of the reasons why this offering can be the most important and impactful offering of the entire year.

Video #2 – What is a Christmas Offering?
I reveal to you the exact definition of what a Christmas Offering is and – most importantly – what it is not.

Video #3 – How Much Can I Raise?
I share with you the secrets of setting a goal for your Christmas Offering that will challenge your church and that you’ll be sure to reach.

It’s all coming down this coming Monday, October 31st!

Secure your new resource at the link below:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/offering

Pick up your copy of this new Christmas Offering resource by Monday, October 31st or you’ll miss out.
I don’t want to do you a disservice by not giving you enough time to plan and prepare.

Well, the clock is ticking…

Time is running out for you to secure your copy of my new resource and lead a successful Christmas Offering at your church.

This brand new “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” resource will no longer be available after this Monday, October 31st at 11:59pm Eastern Time.

Here’s why- I refuse to set you up for failure, and if you don’t get started now, you won’t have the necessary time to prepare for the best offering possible.

There are dozens of steps (some small, some more in-depth) that go into conducting an effective Christmas Offering.

Over the years, I’ve created a comprehensive checklist of these steps and included it as one of the key elements of this resource. I really do want you to succeed!

This checklist includes everything you need to do to prepare, collect and follow up every step of the way – and most of it I’ve already done for you!

Here are just some of the steps this resource will guide you through the “How,” “When” and “Why” of:

• Choosing a name and theme for your offering. This resource includes samples from The Journey to get your creative juices flowing (or for you to re-use at your place).
• Prayerfully setting your goal and causes. Deciding which ministries & missions opportunities you’ll support through your offering and how much you’re hoping to raise.
• Designing a logo and printed materials. You’ll find three complete sample campaigns in this resource that you can edit and re-use in your church with minimal effort.
• Introducing the offering to your church. This resource lays out the proven process for casting the vision of this special offering to your congregation.
• Following up on every gift to the offering. You’ll receive the actual documents we use to thank and encourage each giver – and help them understand the difference they’re making.
• Publicizing each of your causes throughout the campaign. The people of your church are ready and willing to support your various ministries & missions causes – by taking time to connect the dots, you’ll encourage more of them to participate and grow.
• Updating givers of progress along the way. This resource will teach you how to keep your people “in the loop” as to how the offering is going and how their sacrificial gifts are making an impact.
• Thanking each giver for their contribution to the overall offering. There’s no better way to reward a growing disciple than to help them see how their spiritual growth and faithful giving is making a difference in the world.
• And much, much more!

In addition to this powerful checklist, the nearly three hours of audio training, and dozens of documents and files included in the resource itself, I also recorded three videos to help you get started:

Video #1 – Why Do a Christmas Offering?
I outline for you each of the reasons why this offering can be the most important and impactful offering of the entire year.

Video #2 – What is a Christmas Offering?
I reveal to you the exact definition of what a Christmas Offering is and – most importantly – what it is not.

Video #3 – How Much Can I Raise?
I share with you the secrets of setting a goal for your Christmas Offering that will challenge your church and that you’ll be sure to reach.

So, the clock is ticking….

It’s all coming down this coming Monday, October 31st!

Secure your copy at the link below:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/offering

You will NOT be able to obtain this new Christmas Offering resource after Monday, October 31st. I don’t want to do you a disservice by not giving you enough time to plan and prepare.

Don’t let the clock run out!

Nelson

P.S. Here is the complete list of everything you’ll receive in this resource, plus the over $638.00 in Bonus Resources:

• Over two and a half hours of MP3 audio training from Nelson Searcy
• Fill-in-the-blank Listener’s Guide
• Step-by-Step Christmas Offering Checklist
• 25 sample documents – emails, letters and “how-to” files
• Over 60 sample graphics files – including files from three of The Journey’s most successful recent campaigns
• Over $638.00 in BONUS RESOURCES!
• BONUS – 7 Q and A audios with Nelson, including:
  • How will this impact our budget?
  • What if we’re also running a capital campaign?
  • How does this interact with missions and church planting?
  • What should I name our offering?
  • What is the best way to manage these funds?
  • How can I set the right goal?
  • How many causes should we support in our offering?
• BONUS – 4 Complete Sermon Series, and additional sermons to help you teach your people the power of Biblical generosity in supporting God’s work.
  • Christmas Traditions Sermon Series
  • Christmas in Narnia Sermon Series
  • The Grinch Sermon Series
  • Beyond the City Sermon Series (never-before-released)
• BONUS – Improve the Financial Fitness of Your Church (3-hour seminar)
• BONUS – How to Plan & Conduct a Christmas Offering E-Book
• BONUS – Christmas in October Audio Training
• BONUS – How to Lead Your Church During the Financial Crisis Audio Training

As you can see, this resource will give you all the tools you need to lead an effective and fruitful Christmas Offering. Whether you’re hoping to raise $1,500.00 or $350,000.00, you will receive the proven principles, strategy and process to reach your goal.

Beyond all that, by securing “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering,” you will extend your church’s ability to fund missions and ministry in the coming year AND challenge your people to grow spiritually through the discipline of sacrificial giving!

DON’T DELAY though, the clock is ticking and planning ahead is the most important key in leading an effective Christmas Offering. To that end, this resource is ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 11:59PM EASTERN!

Click the link below to secure “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” today:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/offering

Why do a Christmas Offering?

How much can be raised?

Is it possible in a ‘down economy’?

What if we don’t meet our goal?

What if we exceed our goal? (Wouldn’t that be nice!)

What ministries could we partner with?

What greater impact could we have as a church?

These are just some of the questions that I’ve faced (and had to answer) when leading a Christmas Offering at The Journey and while equipping my coaching participants to lead their offerings every year.

Since doing my very first Christmas Offering in the 90′s, I’ve discovered a step-by-step process that is applicable to any church regardless of size, location and denomination. And I’ve found more than a few ideas that just don’t work.

In fact, all told I’ve helped raise over $7 MILLION for my church plus my coaching alumni churches over the past nine years – all to expand God’s Kingdom work!

Once I realized the impact that the Christmas Offering was having in hundreds of coaching alumni churches, I sat down several years ago to try and distill the basic principles in a form that pastors could use as a guide – and that’s where my Christmas Offering E-Book came from.

The e-book was one of our most downloaded resources and it helped a lot of churches, but too often the feedback was that there were still gaps - too many questions were left unanswered. That’s understandable, how could anyone explain years of trial and error learning in a single 30-page document?

So I took the next step – I started leading an annual Christmas Offering Webinar.

For a couple of years, I pulled together our tech team and shared these principles in webinar form. And it helped… filled in some gaps and gave pastors the opportunity to hear the heart of the special offering concept.

But there were still unanswered questions - too many details left unfinished.

After last year’s webinars, I resolved to find a better way – to record everything I’ve learned in over a decade of leading Christmas Offerings into a single, comprehensive format that any church can use to raise enough funds to expand their missions and ministries AND to challenge their people to give sacrificially.

That’s where my brand new “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” resource came from.

And that’s why I’m so excited to share it with you.

You can learn more by clicking this link.

In this resource, you’ll receive:

• Over two and a half hours of clear MP3 audio training from me
• Fill-in-the-blank Listener’s Guide for you to follow along
• The Step-by-Step Christmas Offering Checklist that we use at The Journey each year

In addition, you’ll get:

• 25 sample documents – emails, letters and “how-to” files
• Over 60 sample graphics files – including files from three of The Journey’s most successful recent campaigns
• Over $638.00 in BONUS RESOURCES!
• BONUS – 7 Q and A audios with Nelson, including:
  • How will this impact our budget?
  • What if we’re also running a capital campaign?
  • How does this interact with missions and church planting?
  • What should I name our offering?
  • What is the best way to manage these funds?
  • How can I set the right goal?
  • How many causes should we support in our offering?
• BONUS – 4 Complete Sermon Series, and additional sermons to help you teach your people the power of Biblical generosity in supporting God’s work.
  • Christmas Traditions Sermon Series
  • Christmas in Narnia Sermon Series
  • The Grinch Sermon Series
  • Beyond the City Sermon Series (never-before-released)
• BONUS – Improve the Financial Fitness of Your Church (3-hour seminar)
• BONUS – How to Plan & Conduct a Christmas Offering E-Book
• BONUS – Christmas in October Audio Training
• BONUS – How to Lead Your Church During the Financial Crisis Audio Training

As you can see, this “nine-years-in-the-making” resource will give you all the tools you need to lead an effective and fruitful Christmas Offering.

Whether you’re hoping to raise $1,500.00 or $350,000.00, you will receive the proven principles, strategy and process to reach your goal.

Beyond all that, by securing “How to Plan and Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering,” you will extend your church’s ability to fund missions and ministry in the coming year AND challenge your people to grow spiritually through the discipline of sacrificial giving!

Click Here to Secure Your Copy of “How to Plan & Conduct an Effective Christmas Offering” (w/ over $638.00 in Bonuses) Now

DON’T DELAY though, the clock is ticking and planning ahead is perhaps the most important key in leading an effective Christmas Offering. To that end, THIS RESOURCE IS ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 11:59PM EASTERN!

I hope you’ll let me partner with you on this once-a-year opportunity!

Nelson

P.S. BTW, if you haven’t caught my first two FREE Christmas Offering Training Videos, you can find them at the links below:

FREE Training Video #1

FREE Training Video #2