Online Giving Options

When our congregation looked into the various online giving/offering options, here’s our research, based on a small church and not expecting a lot of buy-in to start with, since we have a lot of older members without computers and smartphones. I will continue to update this as I find more.

Note that we ended up choosing SecureGive when this was published, but your choice will depend on your needs.

UPDATE 2020: The table below is out of date, and I encourage you, as you consider multiple solutions, to check out Rebelgive, which offers a different model, and I’ve found it to generally be the most affordable for churches — we switched away from SecureGive and have been very happy with it.



Practical Resources

Term Papers and Bible Studies in Practical Theology

Jesus Army evangelism

Jesus Army evangelism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Note: Liturgical resources have moved to the Liturgies page.

Evangelism

Halloween Jn 3.16 Tract:
A half-page tract to be handed out with candy on halloween. Customize with your
church info.

New Neighbor Letter
RTF
PDF

Surfingfor Jesus: Using the Internet for Evangelism and Ministry

Prayer

Reclaiming Daily Prayer: This
is my MDiv Thesis entitled “Reclaiming Daily Prayer”. It is in pdf
format.

Stewardship

Church Officer Workshop Bible study & Answer key: Bible study on Rendering Sacrificial Service from Pastor Jonathan Meyer or both in a zip

Scientific (Creation, Life Issues,
etc.)

Misc. Documents

diversities: A paper
by Rev. Herb Mueller of the Southern Illinois District on how we deal
with diversities and differences. Excellent reading.

The Church
Culture: A brief paper describing corporate cultures and
looking at how to apply it to the local congregation.

Funeral Preferences Form
Word 5 for Mac
Word 97/98
WordPerfect for WinDOS

The
Gospel in C.S. Lewis’ novel The Screwtape Letters
PDF
HTML

Abortion Rights and Who’s Left, a discussion of abortion rights (HTML)

Other Sites

Ongoing Ambassadors for Christ:
The LCMS Youth & Adults Evangelism program

EvangelismMoment: Evangelism Ideas from St. Paul’s, Delaware, IA