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September 21, 2009
The Future of Church Giving
I really appreciated Jason's post this morning, "Musings on the Future of Fundraising." I think he really drives home the point that it's the responsibility of organizational leader (NOT SOMEONE ELSE) to begin planning how the organization will connect and communicate with its core constituency as the means by which we interact with each other is rapidly changing.
There are only two things driving this change:
1. Technology
2. The acceptance of that technology
The rate of change in both catagories is happening so fast it is almost discouraging at time. BUT this is the work we have been given to do. We lead organizations and are responsible for ensuring the organization or cause's effectiveness and sustainabiliity for the present AND the future.
What are you doing TODAY to learn about new technology? What conversations are you and your core leadership staff having TODAY to plan for the shift that is already in motion?
No one knows exactly what this is going to look like when it's all said and done (if there is even a point in which we will be able to declare "said and done"). The difference - for the church at least - is that we can't rest in historical "slowness" of the church to adopt technology. The people in the pew are demanding it.
Are you choking your church's ministry impact because you refuse to learn and adopt new mediums of communication? If you are, then you are paving the way for an under-funded ministry that will be crippled today and perhaps paralyzed very soon.
The future is now. What are YOU doing about it TODAY?
Posted by bstroup at September 21, 2009 11:25 AM
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