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The How & Why of Online Giving Growth [Infographic]


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Online giving is growing with leaps and bounds.

Is your church or ministry offering online giving?

Having a “donate” button on your website isn’t enough, either. With features like “text to give” and mobile giving apps, having a giving solution that makes it easy for mobile online users is also important.

In fact, when you consider the steady decline in check and cash use, a mobile giving solution is the only way to capitalize on spontaneous giving as well!

Here’s a closer look at both the how and why of online giving growth:

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What Everyone Thinks When They Text & Drive [Video]


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Having previously been in youth ministry, I am acutely aware of the dangers of texting and driving. (That being said, adults are as bad or even worse.) Even further, my father-in-law is an insurance salesmen and had my three year old do a radio ad with the line “stop the text, stop the wrecks.”

So when Buzzfeed did a fun video on what everyone things about people who text and drive, I had to share it. So true.

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6 Proven End-Of-Year Giving Tips for Your Church


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End-of-year giving is big!

It’s on our minds here at Tithe.ly and as a church leader it should be on yours too.

Why you ask? Well, for one BIG reason. Nearly 35% of all giving happens during the last three months of the year with 17% happening in December and over 30% happening on the very last day of the year — December 31st.

Americans donated $358.38 billion to Charity in 2014.

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The Pastor and the iPad: Intellectual Stimulation [Series]


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[Note: This is part three in a series discussing practical, pastoral uses of an iPad. You might find it helpful to start with part one, two, three, and/or four.]

Though it may not be an overly emphasized element, pastors need a keen mind and a sharp wit. The need for wit is a bit obvious—ever sat through a boring sermon?—but the need for keen mind is a bit more subtle. Ministers are communicators, administrators, leaders, vision-casters, and so much more that requires continual intellectual development and maintenance.

The question, then, is how an iPad or tablet can help in that process. Let’s answer that question.* Also, as some have noted, this post series is, perhaps, needless restricted to iPads. The reasons for this notwithstanding, this post is probably the most inclusive. I hope you find it useful, Android users.

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