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 fulfill their goal.
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.
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’
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
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’
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
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,
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
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
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,
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
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
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”
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,
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,
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
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)
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
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
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
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
