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Reviewed by: Mike Strathdee

In this fascinating book, Christopher, a former pastor and long-time church fundraising consultant, provides a detailed

overview of financial challenges facing churches, and suggestions about how to adapt to the new reality.

Churches are getting a much smaller piece of the charitable pie. When it comes to end of life gifts, the share that churches receive is much smaller, and shrinking.

Christopher’s prescription for renewed health is to remember that people give to vision. He calls pastors to understand that like the CEO of a college or any other charity; they need to be their church’s chief fund raiser. Asking for money isn’t about sales, but about evangelism, he says.

This short, challenging book is a useful reading for pastors and volunteer leaders in any church.

Quote: “If pastors choose not to know how their members are doing in financial stewardship…they are denying themselves a tool that could help diagnose a person’s spiritual condition.”

Mike Strathdee

Meet the Reviewer:

Mike has an MA in Political Science - with Distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University and a BA, Honours Political Science and French from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also a member of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP).

Mike, his wife Carolyn and their daughters, Ella and Kate, attend Breslau Mennonite Church.