For Church Growth

Online Success For Church Growth

Thu. March 11, 2010

Feature Article #1

About ForChurchGrowth.com

It’s been ten years now since I started System Savvy Inc. Somehow, not by intent or promotion, we began developing web sites for church clients and non-profit organizations. Oddly, we found our church clients were utilizing more online technology than many businesses! I did not wonder why for long… it was clear. Churches and non-profits [...]

Carla Edwards | October 24th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

7 Ways to Grow Your Church with an Effective Website

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This ebook is designed to be a valuable resource to help you:

Make the business case for investment in an effective church website
Maximize results from developing a new church site
Troubleshoot and correct poor results on your church’s website

Results Matter For Churches Large & Small:

Small churches with very limited [...]

Carla Edwards | October 24th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Web Project Rescue: 6 Secrets to Success

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Do one of these scenarios apply to your web project?

Confused and overwhelmed trying to get started
Started a project and having extreme trouble getting it completed
Have put significant resources into a site they are unhappy with

This ecourse has been designed specifically for churches and non-profits because for THEM an effective website [...]

Carla Edwards | October 24th, 2008 | Continued

About this Site

We began developing web sites for church clients and non-profit organizations in 1999, and oddly, I found that our church clients were utilizing more online technology than many businesses! I did not wonder why for long… it was clear. Churches and non-profits have to make the MOST of every dollar they take in, every human resource [...]

Love Offerings: Tax Implications of Giving and Receiving

The concept of “love offerings” relates to any gifts being given to your pastor by members of your congregation.
102, that “gross income does not include the value of property acquired by
gift.” This means that if “love offerings,” are truly gifts, you do not have to
include them in your gross income for Federal income tax purposes.
The [...]

16Dec2008 | Robert Howze | 0 comments | Continued

Grow Your Church on Solid Foundations

“Solid Foundations” What do these words evoke or conjure up for you in regards to growing your church? Strength, security, permanence, durability or maybe even a super structure comes to mind. Interestingly we tend to think more about the symbols of foundations than the substance of the foundation. The tendency is to rush into the [...]

13Dec2008 | Jerome King | 1 comment | Continued

Building Traffic on Your Church Website

Over the ~10 years I have worked with churches, we have achieved some incredible results and established a very consistent track record in enhancing site traffic. Some well over 300% for consecutive months, and we’ve been delighted when clients had to upgrade their hosting due to bandwidth overload.
Members & Visitors Will Drive Traffic to an [...]

6Dec2008 | Carla Edwards | 0 comments | Continued

5 Church eCommerce Power Tips

I have been delighted on many occasions with the great impact that ecommerce has on enhancing contributions and sales on the sites that we build for churches. I am also often on the listening end of a conversation about the frustrations and misconceptions of staff as they try to deal with online giving, online stores, [...]

19Nov2008 | Carla Edwards | 0 comments | Continued

Your Website is Talking Behind Your Back!

While you’re not watching and you can’t listen in, your church website is telling your visitors a few things behind your back. There’s a conversation going on in each visitor’s head and your website is influencing how that conversation goes.
A visitor may be arriving with the impression or expectation that your ministry is dynamic, progressive [...]

12Nov2008 | Carla Edwards | 0 comments | Continued

Growth Requires Peak Leadership

Have you ever watched your church approach a problem or project, knowing of a better way, but others weren’t convinced? Frustrating, isn’t it? Especially when you finally achieve a resolution , later than necessary, having expended more resources than required and everyone feeling more flustered after the inevitable conflicts, overruns and delays.
How the Organization Suffers

5Nov2008 | Jerome King | 0 comments | Continued

Easy & Accountable Reimbursement

As a church or any other non-profit operates, the staff and volunteers doing business and conducting activities on behalf of the church will incur expenses. The frequency at which this occurs as well as the number of individuals involved will expand as ministries, volunteer and staff rosters expand. Therefore it’s important to establish a reimbursement [...]

3Nov2008 | Robert Howze | 0 comments | Continued