Category: FREE Resources
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Free Housing Allowance Calculator
Setting a Pastoral Housing Allowance continues to be one of the more confusing things to figure out for church planters. Below is a Free Housing Allowance Calculator that should help. First, some important things you need to keep in mind: The Rules You have to be an ordained, licensed or commissioned pastor You have to…
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How to Podcast Church Plant Sermons
Podcasting sermons has always been complicated & confusing for me. And I’m pretty handy with software stuff. There have been a couple of decent but limited tools that have come & gone over recent years, but figuring out how to podcast church plant sermons has been off my radar for a while. Turns out, it…
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Free Soft Demographic Reports
This is an update to my post about free soft demographic reports from July 2012. Experian, whom you may know as one of the big three credit bureaus, has been amassing both hard & soft demographic data for years that gives them (and now you) insight into people in your area. They’ve carved up American…
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Free Church Offering Counting Tools
Part 3 in a 4-part series on How to Count Church Offerings It doesn’t get much more practical than this. Here are the church offering counting tools and the step-by-step process your Counting Team needs every week: Keep in mind that this is geared toward the mobile church plant. There might be a few things…
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Church Plant Postal Permit Filing Tips
Here are things I’ve learned over several years of coaching church planters through dealing with the US Postal Service. If you’re using direct mail as part of your Grand Opening announcement strategy, use these church plant postal permit filing tips: Apply Early It can take a couple of trips to your local USPS and a couple…
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Church Plant Freebie Friday – Reftagger Scripture Hyperlinks
Reftagger automatically tags Bible references on your website and shows readers a preview of the entire verse. I discovered the Reftagger WordPress plugin on one of my planters’ websites almost by accident. I was adding a ‘what we believe’ page to his site. After copying & pasting his content onto the page, I thought…
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Church Plant Freebie Friday: Amazon Smile
Amazon is donating money to non-profit organizations when shoppers register through Amazon Smile. Once the regulars at your church plant register, ½% of all their (qualified) purchases automatically come to your church. Or better yet, get all of your regulars to register for the nonprofit in town that your church partners with. Do it as…
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Church Plant Freebie Friday – Signup Genius
Signup Genius is a great FREE tool for organizing your church plant prayer team and/or volunteers around events, projects, etc. Here are a couple of ways you could use it: Church Plant Outreach Events Your launch team is participating in a local community event and you need people to take 1-hour shifts during a 6-hour…