Featured Ebook
Pastor-Friendly Audio
• Choosing the best mic to deliver your message • Are your wireless microphones illegal? • Understanding the REAL cost of your audio equipment
Architecture & Design
The Architect as Partner
Architects, pastors and a CFO talk about how to navigate -- or better yet, avoid -- the usual challenges of a church building project
where light learns to speak®
• Considering stained glass? 6 steps to choosing the right studio • A guide to stained glass window restoration
Designing Worship Areas
Securing buy-in: 3 strategies for casting your vision
Q&A: Christian school design
If starting a school is on your church’s horizon, you’ll appreciate the advice of these two knowledgeable architecture experts.
Design Trends to Watch: 2018
Two experienced architects discuss emerging (& expiring) trends -- including multisite & multi-generational design strategies
Children's Spaces
Is your facility too hot, too cold, or just right? 5 proven strategies to achieve the right mix
Engaging Spaces
How to ensure a truly engaging worship space, by design
CHURCH FACILITIES: Building & Construction
How to relocate without losing members, stay on time & on budget, and renovate without regrets
Capital Stewardship & Generosity
Strategies for Cultivating Major Gifts
Did you know your church management software -- and the data within it -- can be a big help?
BEST PRACTICES FORUM: Technology
• Church data matters, because people matter • Apps that engage • Make giving simple
How to Retain & Expand Supporters Through Digital Giving: A Remote Roundtable
• How to use “social listening” to get more donations for your church • 5 steps to turn non-givers into givers
In Sync & On Target
How giving consistency -- across multiple campuses -- drives better ministry, increased magnanimity & more efficient church management
Capital Stewardship Success Stories
How 6 pastors -- with 6 different church growth & building projects -- funded their visions, raising between $5 million and $24 million+
Planned Giving
What it is, how it works, and the results your church can expect
Creating a Culture of Generosity (Vol. 2)
Mobile giving for multisites; using giving data for ministry; how mobile giving cuts staff time & heartache -- and more
Creating a Culture of Generosity
Engaging first-time givers; 3 myths about church giving technology; best practices for reaching budget goals
Church Management Software
BEST PRACTICES FORUM: Technology
• Church data matters, because people matter • Apps that engage • Make giving simple
How to Drive Connection & Assimilation Using Church Management Software: Expert Advice
• What effective assimilation looks like • High tech for high touch • Shopping for a new ChMS? 10 questions
Church Transportation
Selecting the Right Bus for Your Church
Leading church transportation experts help you choose wisely + ensure that bus operation and maintenance are safe and risk-free
Data-Driven Ministry
Get Smart About Expansion
How ChMS data can help you make an educated new-campus decision
BEST PRACTICES FORUM: Technology
• Church data matters, because people matter • Apps that engage • Make giving simple
Facilities Management
Church Facility Stewardship
The 4 pillars to good facility stewardship -- plus, case studies & the cost of not investing *now*
Finance
Best Practices Forum: Financial Stewardship
What lenders look for • Does your church really need financial reserves? • When refinancing makes sense
Church Financial Wellness
• Debt management • Estate planning • Retirement planning • Interviewing strategies • Budget planning • Dealing with an inheritance • Compensation guidance • Using…
Finances & Administration for Church Leaders
• Planning for retirement • The clergy housing allowance • Negotiating compensation • Pastoral relations committees • Disability insurance • The social security outlook •…
Lifetime Learning
Counseling Training Options for Pastors
Expert perspectives on the counseling expectations of church leaders today; plus, common pitfalls, and how to rise to the challenge
Leadership Training Options for Pastors
The leadership and management skills development that are most in-demand among busy church leaders -- and how online education helps
Mission: Accomplished
ON THE MONEY:
An informed discussion about the growing problem of clergy debt -- and what can be done in pursuit of debt freedom -- as well as…
DR. WAYLON BAILEY & FBC COVINGTON: Highly relational, by design
In form and function, relationship is at the heart of everything FBC Covington does as a church. Here’s how that commitment translates into its design.
SIMEON MAY, PHILL MARTIN & THE CHURCH NETWORK:
Equipping the ministry of church management for 60+ years
COLLIN LUCAS & CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP OF LIVERMORE: Bigger vision = better alignment + larger lending needs
How Lucas' secular business background has proven instrumental in helping build -- and fund intelligently -- the church’s rapidly expanding infrastructure
CLAY SCROGGINS & NORTH POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH: Leveraging influence at every level
The author of "How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority" talks about leading left, right & up
Pastor-Friendly A/V
Pastor-Friendly Audio
• Choosing the best mic to deliver your message • Are your wireless microphones illegal? • Understanding the REAL cost of your audio equipment
Risk Management
Do Mission Trips Put Your Religious Organization at Risk?
Expert advice for protecting your members, staff and volunteers while they’re abroad
Disaster Prevention & Recovery Best Practices
Best practices to employ before, during and after disaster strikes -- and the communication tools that should be in every church’s toolbox
Active Shooter Awareness & Training
Examining the very real threat of an active-shooter situation -- and what can your church can do to mitigate it