One of the great things about hosting a blog like Church Giving Matters is that I get a good excuse to hang out with really great people doing BIG things for the Kingdom. I’m so excited about this new series entitled “Build Community, Fund Ministry.” It is a first attempt to make the connection between the process of member assimilation and ministry funding.

To help, I have Lauren Hunter with ChurchTechToday.com, Steve Caton with Church Community Builder, and Tom Roepke a really innovative church leader who has experience in institutional fund development and currently serves in a local church setting. This is a six part series. Each Monday, I’ll post a new podcast capturing our discussion. I will also post a brief outline so that you can quickly preview what will be discussed.

I hope you are as blessed by this series as much as the four of us were in the process of creating it.

Here is the outline of our first conversation:

Lifecycle of Church Membership (with focus on assimilation)

Key ideas:

  1. Ben reviews the Acquisition-Assimilation-Retention-Attrition model from Church Giving Matters.
  2. Church membership is a process and mirrors personal relationships.
  3. There is great need for church leaders to manage assimilation proactively.

Listen or download the first podcast.