Church Development shares a case study of how one church increased their number of volunteers by 14% from one key action.
Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
A. Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.
(Thanks to christian-jokes.net.)
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With the correlation between volunteerism and generosity, Church Development looks at just how many people are offering up their time.
Church Development explores the techniques that increase financial giving in the church. In today’s blog, we take a look at the correlation between volunteering and generosity.
Church Development has workshops throughout Colorado this week. Feel free to come on by!

Church Development shares what's inspiring us lately. In this case, it's what is about to inspire us, as we join with 6,000 churches for 40 days in focusing more intently on God's Word.
While these inspiration blogs are designed to share what God has used to speak into my life lately (past tense), I'm going to break my own standards right away and invite you into what I know is going to inspire me over the next 40 days: The Bible.
Church Development Founder and President, Denis Greene, shares an analogy of how the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are representative of using the blessings God has given.
Imagine how your stewardship effort with your congregation would improve if you knew how tithers grew from casual donors to fully engaged, generous stewards.
We find that many churches rush into a capital campaign before the time is right. Let us show you the seven steps you should go through to ensure your church has a successful capital campaign experience.
For many, cash is tight right now due to the state of the economy. However, many people may still be able to give if they look into other creative ways to give out of non-cash gifts.