Aug/3/2011 The Future of Church Receipts

Charitable giving to religious organizations was flat in 2010; equaling the amount given the previous year. By contrast, charitable giving to all causes was up 3.8 percent as reported by Giving USA Foundation (AP article).Speaking of all charitable giving, Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University said, “If giving continues [...]

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July 22nd, 2011 by admin

Bi-vocational is the Answer

Brian McLaren was Skyped into a conversation with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia’s spring meeting.  In his comments, he suggested churches are going to get larger and smaller in the coming decades.  In the age of Walmart, Target, and Costco, American cultural presses churches toward big and small: it is either a church providing [...]

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July 3rd, 2011 by admin