Featured Ebook
Advancements in MDiv & DMin Training
For busy full-time church leaders, an MDiv or DMin degree might seem out of reach. Here’s the reality.
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®
• How to choose the right stained glass studio • A guide to stained glass window restoration • Protective covering: an integral part of preservation
Designing Worship Areas
How data impacts church design • Integrating church DNA • 3 vision-casting strategies
CHURCH FACILITIES: Building & Construction
How to relocate without losing members, stay on time & on budget, and renovate without regrets
Capital Stewardship & Generosity
Make Giving Click
Expert advice for using technology to identify, engage & cultivate first-time givers
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
Capital Stewardship Success Stories
How 6 pastors -- with 6 different church growth & building projects -- funded their visions, raising between $5 million and $24 million+
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
How to make sure you get the best, safest bus for your most precious cargo
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 • Budget planning • Dealing with an inheritance • Compensation • Using credit responsibly • Emergency fund planning
Lifetime Learning
Advancements in MDiv & DMin Training
For busy full-time church leaders, an MDiv or DMin degree might seem out of reach. Here’s the reality.
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
JOEL SIMS & WORD OF LIFE CHURCH: Leading a legacy
With $29.4 million in building projects completed, Word of Life's story started with a late pastor’s vision and culminated with his son’s own unique legacy.
BOBBY HART & FIRST BAPTIST TULSA: Defying space & thriving downtown
Despite being landlocked, the church recently finished 92,000+ square feet of stunning new preschool, children's & adult education space.
ON THE MONEY
3 financial experts tackle church leaders' biggest challenges
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
Pastor-Friendly A/V
Pastor-Friendly Audio
Choosing the best mic for your message • Are your wireless mics illegal? • The REAL cost of audio equipment • Training the tech team
Risk Management
Insurance Essentials
4 tips for increased church childcare safety: help protect your church’s youngest members
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