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48: Money wasters
Unfiltered: Real Church Planting Conversations
English - February 18, 2020 04:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture church planting lee stephenson danny parmelee church planting podcast church planting resources church planting training Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
As a church planter, you want to maximize your financial resources. Converge church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee help you avoid some purchasing pitfalls they’ve seen over the years.
0:54 One of Danny’s biggest pet peeves is haphazard marketing, including misusing mailers and radio ads.
2:37 Danny talks about how many mailers you need to send out to see a return on your investment.
3:54 As an alternative to mailers, Danny recommends spending money on your church website and social media ads.
4:46 Lee and Danny discuss the dangers of being a "conference junkie."
6:23 Lee’s biggest pet peeve is spending money on staff positions that could be filled with volunteers.
9:06 Danny shares his thoughts on paying for musicians or using volunteers.
10:53 Lee warns about investing too much of your resources into technology and neglecting the development of your volunteers and culture.
12:19 Lee talks about how a consultant helped his first church plant save a lot of money.
13:58 Danny says his church plant invested a lot of money in a church management system that they used for a couple of years and then had to start completely over.