Long gone are the days when folks gave to the church simply because that was the expectation. Dollars are often tight. Members have sometimes seen church dollars spent poorly. Young people in general want to support hands-on, personal ministry.Read more…
About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
A Biblical View of Dominion: Stewardship
…our churches are teaching a low view of stewardship. We’re missing the essential goodness of work in particular, even “non-spiritual” work. “Non-spiritual” work, in case you’re wondering, is any work in which God is not interested, which isRead more…
Four Principles of Biblical Stewardship
Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service, you could notRead more…
David’s Mighty Men: Stewardship In Action
Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried it to David. But he would not drink of it.Read more…
4 Creative Ways to Teach Stewardship This Fall
You’ve tried sermons. Sermon series. Special offerings. The “ask.” Finance committees. Stewardship campaigns. And none of it seems effective at truly making biblical stewardship part of your church’s culture. Talk about frustrating! Here’s the thing, though: Stewardship—understanding that God ownsRead more…
To Create a Plan that Is Truly Transformational – Ask These Questions
Do you want to raise the kind of money that not only funds your mission — but also actually transforms your organization? What does it really take to pull off something like this? Why do some organizations tackle huge goals and aspireRead more…
Demystifying Nonprofit Constituent Relationship Management Systems
What is a CRM you ask? A CRM is a customer relationship management system, or for nonprofits, a constituent relationship management system. Asked and answered. Get it now?Probably not. Maybe you know about CRMs in terms of the corporate world, butRead more…
Encouraging Faithful Financial Administration Among All Nations
Stemming from the International Accountability Summit that was held on April 13-14, ECFA has launched the first-ever Global Network website. Our goal is to provide a place for leaders around the world to obtain resources from ECFA and each other toRead more…
A thousand torments of a giver
What is the best way to provide care to a stranger? Anna Chistyakova explores available options and possibilities to help a homeless person and finds herself overwhelmed, yet is not convinced what she should be doing as a giver. Almost every day on my way to workRead more…
Unshakable Generosity – a 6 Week Curriculum for your Church
We found something recently that got us pretty excited. The Unshakables is a 13-week curriculum developed by Michael Chapman. From years on staff in the media, communications, creative, worship, and arts departments at churches large and small in the States andRead more…