The Power of Analytics to Help You Disciple Your People
As a church leader, being aware of the needs of your congregation is crucial to providing them ministry support and discipleship. Analytics, especially those concerning giving, can be a vital resource in knowing how to minister to your people. In this episode of Stewardship leader, we talk with Vinny Hu, the Director of FinHealth & Stewardship at Hoboken Grace Church, in Hoboken, NJ, and learn how they use analytics software developed by MortarStone to gain the insight that helps them to celebrate, support, and minister more effectively.
What you will hear in this episode
“As leaders, we had to confront the reality that we weren’t discipling our people to be financially healthy, to manage and steward their resources well.”
“What made you ask, do we have the right information, and how can we get the right information to make sure we are making progress?”
“Metrics gives us insight into the health of our congregation, and then we can use that data to do something about it.”
“We want to understand the frequency of our people’s giving so that we can celebrate it and react properly when theirs a change.”
“We have some true first-fruits people who give in January for the rest of the year. Without MortarStone, we would not be able to tell that they do that consistently year in, year out.”
“When people take a step into giving, or they increase their giving, there’s almost always a great story of God changing hearts, or of God doing something in their lives and we want to celebrate that. Conversely, when people drop giving, that’s almost always a ministry opportunity.”
“MortarStone is extremely powerful, but it can be a little bit intimidating at first… I would encourage you to persist with it.”
“One of the things I love is that with MortarStone I can see the progression of giving, and can create custom searches to help me understand where people are on their journey of being a faithful and generous person.”
“The heart of every MortarStone employee I’ve come across is that they believe what they’re doing is God’s work. They want to help me minister to my congregation, more than they care about the dollars that come in every month.”
Resources
MortarStone Analytics - www.mortarstone.com
2022 CSN Annual Forum - Registration
CSN - Stewardship Impact Online Course
