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What Pastors Must Know About Crafting A Vision For Debt Retirement
The following is a guest post from Injoy Stewardship Solutions Senior Consultant Jeff Shortridge. Jeff can be followed on Twitter at @JAShortridge. _________________________________________________________________________ One of the most difficult things for me is seeing a pastor who’s vision has shifted from transformational thinking to transactional. This diversion often happens due to crushing debt. The church debt has become so obstructive and looming that eradicating it [...]
Have You Ever Felt Like You Were Losing It?
The following is a guest post by ISS CEO and President Joe Sangl. ________________________________________________________________________________________ As a leader, you have most certainly experienced feelings of “losing it.” Leaders try to bring about change. And change almost always elicits opposition. We all remember the first big change we attempted to implement. Maybe the picture you had of [...]
Pastors, What Is The Dream God Has Placed In Your Heart?
Pastors and church leaders, the team at Injoy Stewardship Solutions exists to see your dream and vision FULLY FUNDED! I was recently reading some remarks by our President and CEO Joe Sangl on the subject of the realization of dreams. These remarks are so applicable to us as church leaders that I wanted to pass them [...]
Pastors And Church Leaders, Are You Ignoring The Warning Signs?
Recently, Injoy Stewardship Solutions President and CEO Joe Sangl posted his poignant thoughts on how often people ignore obvious warning signs. It made me think of pastors and church leaders who embark on capital campaign without a partner. There are so many places in terms of sequence and timing, tenor and tone, pacing, communications, and dealing with [...]
How One Pastor And His Wife Determined Their Capital Campaign Financial Commitment
Carey Nieuwhof, Senior Pastor of Connexus Community Church in Barrie, Ontario Canada, is one of the world’s great Christian leaders. Injoy Stewardship Solutions is honored to be assisting Carey and the church family with their current capital campaign called Bold. Carey recently wrote a very transparent and insightful blog post on the decision process he and [...]
What Got You Here WON’T Get You There
The following was written by Injoy Stewardship Solutions President and CEO Joseph Sangl in October, 2010. As I read these words I noticed how true they remain today. Pastors and church leaders, as you read Joe’s words, I must ask, what dilemna are you facing today that is preventing your church from moving forward? ______________________________________________________________________________________ What got you [...]
4 Types Of People Pastors Are Called To Help Mature
Transformation Church, located in Charlotte, NC, is one of America’s great churches and Injoy Stewardship Solutions is privileged to be assisting with their current capital campaign. As part of helping craft the campaign’s case statement, I wrote, “Pastor Derwin Gray is America’s leading voice on multi-ethnic, multi-generational ministry. Under his leadership, Transformation Church (TC) has become the [...]
Leadership Insights From The 5 Fastest Growing Churches In America
Today I received my annual copy of Outreach Magazine’s annual Largest and Fastest Growing Churches In America magazine. This is a must read edition for anyone in church leadership. You can order your copy by clicking here. The following is a list of the 10 fastest growing American churches during the last year as well as insights [...]
9 Things I Learned Donating Online to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Injoy Stewardship Solutions is proud to be an alliance partner with The Giving Rocket. Led by Casey Graham and Michael Lukaszewski, this organization is doing an incredible job of coaching pastors and helping churches increase weekly giving. Today, Michael posted a very insightful blog on digital giving. In an effort to serve pastors, we knew we had to pass his [...]
When Generosity Stumbles
Richard Chancy is a Church Building Project Coach for Cogun Inc, a national church builder. He is also an incredibly insightful ministry strategist. Recently, he wrote a thought-provoking post on his personal website about the generosity of church staffs. After reading Richard’s thoughts, we knew they needed to be shared with the ISS audience. Please [...]
