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Beyond the offering plate: Diversifying your church’s fundraising strategy

Laura Strauss offers three tips for churches that need help making ends meet.

One tenth or tithe is basis on which Bible teaches us to give one tenth of first fruit to God. coins with Holy Bible. Biblical concept of Christian offering, generosity, and giving tithes in church.

My congregation gives generously but is unable to meet the church budget. Countless pastors are in a similar situation. We stand in the pulpit from Sunday to Sunday, announce the call to the offering and know those within the pews are doing the best they can with what they have. Yet the tyranny of the heating bill, the electric bill, salaries, the leaky roof, and the broken copier beckon. What are our churches to do?

After years of...

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