Unfiltered: Real Church Planting Conversations

Money wasters

Episode Summary

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.

Episode Notes

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.