Stewardship

  • Free Fall Resources for Online Church Giving

    Free Fall Resources for Online Church Giving

    If you’re not aware, Vanco is an online giving tool that integrates with Church360° and Shepherd’s Staff. With Concordia Technology Solutions and Vanco, you can spend less time on the...

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  • Eight Tips to Boost Recurring Giving for Your Church

    Eight Tips to Boost Recurring Giving for Your Church

    Vanco is an online giving tool that integrates with Church360° and Shepherd’s Staff.  We know some churches are hesitant to get started with online giving.

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  • 8 Reasons Members Aren’t Ready to Give to Your Church

    8 Reasons Members Aren’t Ready to Give to Your Church

    Every church, regardless of size, relies heavily on donations. But the offering is more than just a donation to support various projects or meet certain fundraising goals. And it is...

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  • The Giving Trends You Need for 2022 and Beyond are Here!

    The Giving Trends You Need for 2022 and Beyond are Here!

    Do you know how your members prefer to give? In 2021, Vanco conducted the fourth biennial study of 1,000 churchgoers around the country and across Christian denominations to find out....

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  • 4 Online Giving Perks You Might Not Have Thought About

    4 Online Giving Perks You Might Not Have Thought About

    Churches often fall short of their stewardship goals. In many cases, it’s because churches don’t have an online giving platform, leaving church members unsure of how to give. If you want...

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  • How to Maximize eGiving Tools at Your Church

    How to Maximize eGiving Tools at Your Church

    In many places, churches are returning to what feels normal: in-person services with members coming together in the building. But as churches face the future, there are many things they...

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  • Church Management Software 301: Fundraising

    Church Management Software 301: Fundraising

    Fundraising is a hard topic, and I’ll admit at the outset that it’s one I struggle with. The problem is, of course, that it’s so easy to get the perspectives wrong. We can become so intent...

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  • Understanding Vocation in a Machine-Filled World

    Understanding Vocation in a Machine-Filled World

    There’s a story that’s told of a wise man to whom a king was indebted. The king offered him his choice of any reward in the kingdom, but the wise man demurred. Instead he asked only...

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  • Harnessing Technology So It Doesn’t Harness Us35:29

    Harnessing Technology So It Doesn’t Harness Us

    DCE Katy Munson advocates approaching the conversation on how much and when to use technology from a stewardship perspective—managing the resources God has given to us, particularly in our homes.

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  • Harnessing Technology So It Doesn’t Harness Us

    Harnessing Technology So It Doesn’t Harness Us

    “Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms.” These words were deemed the unofficial motto for the 1933–34 World’s Fair in Chicago. More than eighty years have passed since that...

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  • Churchgoer Giving Study: New Findings, Surprising Insights53:48

    Churchgoer Giving Study: New Findings, Surprising Insights

    Vanco Payment Solutions conducted an online survey of more than 1,000 churchgoers in August 2017, following up on their groundbreaking research from two years ago. While the results continue to show s

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  • Making the Most of a Quiet Week in the Church Office

    Making the Most of a Quiet Week in the Church Office

    Welcome to one of my favorite weeks of the year: the week between Christmas and New Year’s. At Concordia Publishing House, this is a short work-week bookended by two holidays and an...

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  • Simple Steps for Planning for Next Year’s Offering Envelopes

    Simple Steps for Planning for Next Year’s Offering Envelopes

    The fourth quarter of 2017 is just around the corner, and in addition to Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas, this time includes one of the most stressful tasks in the church office:...

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  • e-Giving Products That Reach Your Entire Congregation1:02:52

    e-Giving Products That Reach Your Entire Congregation

    Vanco Payment Solutions, the exclusive electronic giving and payment provider for Concordia Technology Solutions, has a long history of providing e-Giving solutions that are specifically designed...

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  • Adapting to Churchgoer Preferences with e-Giving34:21

    Adapting to Churchgoer Preferences with e-Giving

    Is your church experiencing a decrease in offerings? Churches have continued to see a decline in their overall share of giving for the last 30 years. Giving to religious organizations only rose 2.6%

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  • 4 Tips for Using Google Chrome Efficiently

    4 Tips for Using Google Chrome Efficiently

    I love finding tricks and "secret" ways to do things easier. When I was growing up, my brothers and I played lots of video games together. I remember always trying to look online and...

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  • A Guide to Encourage Giving on Giving Tuesday

    A Guide to Encourage Giving on Giving Tuesday

    Now that we're all full of Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie (or at least I am), and we've taken time to think about and thank God for all of the ways He's abundantly blessed us, we...

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  • 3 Benefits of Electronic Giving for Churches

    3 Benefits of Electronic Giving for Churches

    In August of 2015, Vanco Payment Solutions conducted an online survey of 1,002 U.S. Christian churchgoers. They created a report that details the survey’s findings about current attitudes toward...

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  • Maximize Your Office Space to Increase Productivity

    Maximize Your Office Space to Increase Productivity

    Achieving productivity in the church office may seem to be as elusive for you as a World Series victory is for the Chicago Cubs. But just as they showed everyone last night, it is actually possible.

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  • Practicing Good Stewardship in Marketing

    Practicing Good Stewardship in Marketing

    I was to write a blog on practicing good stewardship in marketing/advertising when I realized something. The best thing an organization can do to practice good stewardship in advertising is to...

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