Product

Introducing Goals by FaithStreet

Today, FaithStreet is thrilled to announce the launch of Goals. Goals is a new feature that allows givers to create an annual goal and to track their giving as they

churches

This Church Uses Baseball to Grow

Though football is revving up, much of the summer months are thought of as a “dead zone” in terms of sports: You have baseball, a little golf, a little tennis, and more baseball. However, that didn’t stop one church from capitalizing on a

Giving

Your People Don't Give. Is It Your Fault?

An interesting question, one posed (and eventually answered by) Chris Willard over on his blog. It must be something every church leader asks themselves: “Other churches seem to be doing well, but we’re not reaching our goals. Did we just get a bad

Giving

4 Little Problems Solved by Online Giving

Often times when we talk about online giving here at FaithStreet, we speak in broad strokes. You know, “online giving increases giving overall” (it does), or “online giving is affordable no matter how small your church” (it is). That’s what our customers want

Giving

3 Keys for Successful Fundraisers

We talk a lot about online giving here at Faithstreet (seriously, we’re the best at it), but churches just as often turn to more “traditional” fundraisers for specific needs in causes. What’s your go-to? A car wash? A bake sale? Sure, those

Church

An Interesting Theory on Declining Attendance

For a church leader, attendance is everything. Sure, a lot more goes into a healthy, thriving church, but it all depends on how many butts you have in the pews. With a recent Pew poll finding that people are definitely, maybe, sort of falling

Giving

People Give More When They Have Options

You know non-profit giving has reached the big time when the “paper of record,” the New York Times, has one of its top economic consultants on the case. In this week’s column, Robert J. Shiller examines what motivates people to not only give,

Church

Is Your Church Diverse Enough to Survive?

A couple of months ago, OnFaith shared a story titled “Are Millennials Really Leaving the Church? Yes — but Mostly White Millennials.” It got considerable social media exposure, likely because anything nodding in the direction of a doomed church is exceptionally shareable. The piece featured

Church

Feeling Burnt Out? Why not Focus on Growth?

Last week at OnFaith, we featured a story from pastor J.R. Briggs titled “Why Half of All Pastors Want to Quit Their Jobs.” Upon further fact checking, we found that titular statistic is… a little spurious, at best a little oversimplified. Still, there’

Church

Church Growth Doesn't Have to be Organized

“Millennials,” people aged roughly 18-32, are an odd thing (Firefox’s spellcheck doesn’t even recognize the word): As The Washington Post noted last week, they want to live in hip, urban environments, but as soon as they make an are desirable, they often

Church

Is Old-School Thinking Preventing New-School Growth in your Church?

With an increasing number of Americans claiming spirituality but turning away from organized “traditional” denominations, growing an established church can be difficult. If you’re a church leader, you’ve undoubtedly experienced these non-growth pains yourself. However, if we can open our minds a

exponential

The Best Tweets From Day Two at Exponential East

Exponential East got into full swing yesterday, and that was reflected in the tweets we saw from attendees. We only have so much space here to share, but let us know if we missed something epic! Sean, our co-founder and CEO, liked what he

538

Stats: "Jesus Christ" is the Most Referenced Search on IMDB

Over at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight (you’ve heard of him predicting everything from presidential elections to sports tournaments), they did an interesting analysis: At IMDB, when people searched “reference to ____,” “Jesus Christ” and “God” were the two most popular terms used to fill

company

Internship Opportunity: "Public Relations and Marketing Intern"

** Reporting To**** Company Overview: **FaithStreet (www.faithstreet.com) is building a service that makes it easy for anyone to connect with a great church or Christian community. For churches, FaithStreet provides a great-looking, easy-to-use web presence designed especially for newcomers. For church seekers, FaithStreet

company

FaithStreet Goes National

If you’ve visited the FaithStreet site recently, you may have noticed some big changes. We have officially “gone national”, meaning you can now find a church anywhere in the country. Even better, if you’ve already found our FaithStreet to be helpful here

company

NYC Faith + Tech

FaithStreet is sponsoring a Meetup Group called “NYC Faith+Tech,” which is focused on the intersection of faith and technology. We helped start the group along with Ainsley O’Connell, and the group is really taking on a life of it’s own.  We

faithstreet

FaithStreet Progress Report: November 14, 2011

**The past few months have been an exciting time for FaithStreet, and we have made a lot of quiet progress towards our goal of building a platform that helps New Yorkers (and visitors) find and connect with any church in NYC.                        ** *The FaithStreet Team:

facebook for churches

Facebook for Churches

Does your church use Facebook? Should it? Learn how to best use Facebook as a tool for your congregation. **The Great ** **In short: **Facebook is a great tool for communication within a church and community building. (1) Communicating Within the Church: Facebook gives churches

Casey Hurley

Looking for a Church, Balance in New York City

**Our first guest post on the FaithStreet blog comes from Casey Hurley, a twenty-something Manhattanite who works in media. Casey talks about looking for a church in New York and the challenges of being young, socially-active and Christian in New York City. By Casey

Apostles Church NYC

Leaders Speak: A Talk with Pastor Ryan Taylor of Apostles Church NYC

Here’s the second interview in our FaithStreet Leaders Speak series, a series of interviews with Christian leaders in New York City. This week we* interviewed Pastor Ryan Taylor, Pastor of Administration at Apostles Church NYC. We talk with Ryan about integrating work and

Leaders

Leaders Speak: A talk with Father Christopher Calin

Here’s the first interview in our FaithStreet Leaders Speak series, a series of interviews with Christian leaders in New York City. This week we interviewed Father Christopher Calin, Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection on the Lower East Side on