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Introduction to the Podcast: Welcome to the Access Rosedale Podcast. Each month we will sit down and share insights about leadership, processes, and the culture of Rosedale Baptist Church. RBC is a leading church in Baltimore, Maryland that is pastored by Scott Tewell. Please join us each month for insights and strategies that have the ability to improve your ministry. We hope you have fun along the way!

Episode 9: Creating a Culture of Giving Part 2. In this episode , we will continue talking about how to create a culture of giving for your church. Executive Pastor Steve Smith, Missions Pastor Robbie Ellis, and our host Creative Pastor Steven Miller join us today.

Takeaways from this episode:
• Be sensitive to how people want to give.
• Think through what you offer with online giving. How is it presented? It needs to be a clear-cut, easy way to give online.
• To create a culture of giving you have to model sacrificial giving.
• Implement incremental giving with first-time givers to help them start the process of giving.
• You have to have a transparency with how you are stewarding people’s
money.

Quotes:
• “Help them follow what God wants them to do” Robbie Ellis
• “It all starts with the leaders in the Church” Steve Smith
• “If you as a leader are not a giver, you are not going to be able to have a culture of giving” Steve Smith
• “Anticipation produces Participation” Steve Miller

Practical Application:
• Create a clear and compelling vision.
• Send quarterly giving statements.
• Have consistent communication.
• Send out thank you letters to your givers, especially to first time givers.
• Have a separate giving URL.
• Think about implementing a 90 day giving challenge.

Access Rosedale Podcast
Introduction to the Podcast: Welcome to the Access Rosedale Podcast. Each month we will sit down and share insights about leadership, processes, and the culture of Rosedale Baptist Church. RBC is a leading church in Baltimore, Maryland that is pastored by Scott Tewell. Please join us each month for insights and strategies that have the ability to improve your ministry. We hope you have fun along the way!

Episode 8: Creating a Culture of Giving. In this episode, we will talk about how to create a culture of giving for your church. Executive Pastor Steve Smith, Missions Pastor Robbie Ellis, and our host Creative Pastor Steven Miller join us today.

Takeaways from this episode:
• Giving is talked about all throughout the Bible
• We are church leaders have a responsibility to teach about giving
• Having multiple methods of giving will help avoid that “summer” slump

Quotes:
• “Giving is contagious, it is the heart of the Lord” Steve Smith

• “My giving is a revelation of who I am” Robbie Ellis

• “Don’t make it hard for people to give to the Lord” Steve Miller

• “Creating a culture of giving is different than getting people to give to the Lord one time” Steve Smith

Practical Application:
• Teach what the Bible teaches about finances
• Don’t defer your responsibility to teach on giving
• Recognize generational differences
• Have different methods to give

Access Rosedale Podcast
Introduction to the Podcast: Welcome to the Access Rosedale Podcast. Each month we will sit down and share insights about leadership, processes, and the culture of Rosedale Baptist Church. RBC is a leading church in Baltimore, Maryland that is pastored by Scott Tewell. Please join us each month for insights and strategies that have the ability to improve your ministry. We hope you have fun along the way!

Episode 7: Core Values Part 3: In this episode, we will talk about our last two core values. Our core values set who we are, our vision, how we function, and our culture. The last two core values are Striving to make it better, and We acknowledge and reward.

Takeaways from this episode:
• Have a safe environment where you can disagree.
• Put your ideas out there and don’t be so emotionally attached to your idea
that you can’t recognize someone else has a better idea.
• A lot of times we gloss over things because we are to busy patting ourselves
on the back for what a good job we did.
• Ask your self “ how can we make it better”.
• Constantly evaluate what you are doing.
• Evaluation is hard because it forces collaboration.

Quotes:
• “Don’t be content with where you are, lets keep growing” Robbie Ellis
• “Have a healthy discontent in your area of ministry” Steve Smith
• “You have to be humble and will to receive criticism” Steve Miller
• “Progress is celebrated, and we win together” Steve Miller
• “People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers” Steve Smith

Practical Application:
• Evaluation and Collaboration.
• Open yourself up to constructive criticism.
• Get a fresh perspective.
• Consistently send thank you notes whether verbally or written.
• Celebrate wins together.
• Be willing to try new things.
• Remember you are a team.

In this episode, Steve Smith, Robbie Ellis, and host Steve Miller discuss the next two staff core values at Rosedale. The staff core values of "Develop before doing" and "See more and before" are essential to the success of our team working together and seeing people reach their full potential. We share lots of practical ideas and tools in this episode. If you would like to know more, have questions, or would like access to any of the documents we talk about, please email podcast@rosedalebaptist.org.

In episode five of the Access Rosedale Podcast, we discuss two of the six staff core values our team has developed at Rosedale. Over the next few episodes will discuss each of our staff core values and unpack why they are important to the vision and culture of our team and church.

We would love to connect with you and answer any questions you have. Please send an email podcast@rosedalebaptist.org.