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Church Fundraising Consultant and Author

Dr. Rod Rogers is the Owner and Principal Consultant for AMI Church Consulting. He has led capital campaigns as a pastor and consultant since the mid-nineties, serving churches nationwide. He is also the creator of an annual giving program used by over 3,000 churches in twenty-five countries with weekly giving increases from 20 to over 100 percent.

He is a writer and the author of Pastor Driven Stewardship: 10 Steps to Lead Your Church to Biblical Giving.

Rod has over 30 years of pastoral experience as a youth minister in the USA and Portugal and as the founding and senior pastor of churches in Denver, Colorado, and Costa Rica. He also served as Bible teacher on the radio program The Nourishing Word, and as Visiting Lecturer of Pastoral Theology at New Geneva Theological Seminary, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Rod has a diploma from Moody Bible Institute, Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies from John Brown University, a Masters of Theology in Old Testament and Semitic Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from New Geneva Theological Seminary.

He loves spending time with his family, reading, practicing new languages in foreign countries, and riding his motorcycle.

Additional Church Consulting Skills & Expertise

In addition to being a capital campaign consultant for churches, Rod offers a wealth of closely related skills and experience that augment the services he offers your church as a fundraising coach. This breadth of knowledge and experience enables him to help your church implement capital campaign solutions that are developed in a context larger than just fundraising.

These solutions are designed not just to help you raise money or execute a capital project, but to help you build the church body, not just the church building.

As an experienced annual and capital campaign consultant some of the skills he brings to your church’s capital campaign include:

Experience as a successful church planter
Experience as a lead pastor, serving an EFCA church for 15 years
Training in church growth and health
Experience as a missionary
Experience as a church lay leader
Marketing and communications experience
Adult small group and SS teacher
Training and experience in biblical counseling
Leadership professor and expert

This unique and broad blend of experience will help you chart a course that benefits not just the capital campaign, but the church’s overall vision and mission.

In Summary

Rod will provide solutions that go beyond the narrow scope of just capital fundraising as he helps you develop a capital campaign strategy that is not only built upon best practices, but is tailored to your church’s unique circumstances and culture. Listen to this short church capital campaign video overview of Abundant Giving.

If your church is looking for help to build a church, whether they need help in planning or raising money to build through a biblical capital campaign, call Rod for a free phone consultation and see where the Lord leads from there.