Is Online Giving Right for Your Church?
Churches that haven’t waded into the world of online giving yet may still be wondering if it would be beneficial for their congregation. Let’s find...
Wondering how Saddleback Church manages online giving across 11 campuses and more than 35,000 members in attendance each week?
When it comes to online giving, it’s never a bad idea to ask what’s working for other churches.
But you’ll never learn about the company behind the Saddleback Church giving page through their giving page because they have chosen a platform that operates invisibly to their givers.
Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, is among the largest churches in the US, formerly led by founder and well-known pastor and author Rick Warren. They had a vision to better connect their online giving to a sense of worship. Unable to find an online giving tool that met their needs, they worked with Vision2’s founder Carl Tierney to develop a customized beta giving platform that would solve aspects of online giving that no other platform was addressing.
A top priority for Saddleback Church was the ability to completely automate their offering processing, both online and offline. At that time, it took 17 people from Sunday to Thursday of each week just to process the weekend offering.
They also wanted a way to showcase their ministries (they currently have 200) and allow givers to learn more about—and easily donate to—the funds that are most meaningful to them. This feature contributes to the giving platform’s average 23% giving lift in the first 12 months.
With Vision2, less than 6 people can now process Saddleback’s weekend giving by the end of day on Monday, even though the church’s offerings have increased significantly. Vision2 automates the processing of checks and cash, too.
With the Saddleback Church giving platform, Vision2, online givers can quickly give via a short, simple form, or they can scroll through more than 100 ministry opportunities in full color on Saddleback’s giving page and know the specific impact of their gift. This feature, unique to Vision2, provides an experience that givers have become accustomed to seeing in vacation rentals, Amazon products, and most every other interaction they have online.
The Vision2 Saddleback Church giving platform features:
The Vision2 online giving platform that Saddleback Church helped to create is now providing these same benefits to hundreds of churches, from small to mega.
Reach out to learn more about how Vision2’s collaboration with Saddleback Church resulted in a giving platform that allows churches to connect with their givers in the same engaging way they do in person, no matter the size of the church.
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