Helping Baptist churches increase tithes and offerings

Historically, Baptist churches have raised enough money by passing around the offering plate. This time-honored tradition wouldn’t make your church millions but would usually raise enough to keep the doors open to believers.

In today’s world, most people no longer carry cash. They typically have credit and debit cards, and more and more have begun using cashless tools like Venmo and digital wallets. Some churches may feel overwhelmed by the options and costs of collecting offerings and tithes with online donations, but Donorbox makes Baptist fundraising easy and affordable.

Tools like text-to-give and donation kiosks make it easier to collect cashless offerings or tithes from parishioners without spending time soliciting during Sunday services.

Baptist fundraising is no longer limited to passing the plate around. Donorbox lets Baptist churches create online donation pages and forms to seamlessly embed in your church website. Churches can also collect offerings and tithes from their congregation in their lobby, during services, and in-person events with tools like Donorbox Live™ Kiosk and Text-to-Give.

Churches can also create and add QR codes to signs posted around the building, church programs, and donation appeals mailed to their members. These QR codes work with any smartphone and link directly to the church’s donation form.

One of the best Donorbox tools that many churches may overlook is the Donor Portal. With this tool, churches can collect critical information from parishioners that helps them better communicate and segment followers by their interests and ability to give.

Parishioners also have control over their own portals and can sign up to give one-time or recurring gifts to meet their tithe obligations, including options for weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual gifts. Individuals can raise or lower the amount of their gifts, change their frequency, and stop them altogether, and Donorbox will monitor and alert your church each time.

With Donorbox, your Baptist church can use several tools to increase donation amounts from parishioners. Weekly offerings have fallen out of fashion since most people don’t carry cash. Donorbox makes it easy for your church’s followers to give cashless one-time gifts with text-to-give campaigns and QR codes that link to your church’s donation page.

You can also make it easy for followers to set up recurring weekly or monthly tithes. Donorbox’s Donor Portal gives each donor control over their own giving, letting them change the amounts and frequency of their recurring gifts at any time.

Another way your church can encourage larger offerings is with matching gifts. Donorbox has partnered with Double the Donation to let your followers collect matching donations from their employers every time they give. That means you can raise twice the amount for no extra work!