The autumn stewardship drive, the multi-year building fund, the missions push, the year-end appeal — these are the giving seasons your church already keeps. AloraChurch carries each one from the first draft to the final board report: goals, commitments, the live moment in the room, and every channel feeding one total.
The job
Generic fundraising tools treat them all as one more campaign. They're not — each has its own rhythm, its own moment, and its own measure of faithfulness.
From late October through Christ the King Sunday: commitment cards, weekly progress for the elders, and next year's budget built on promises made in faith.
Capital initiatives that run for years, not weeks — phased milestones, multi-year commitments, and a thermometer the whole congregation watches rise.
A missionary visit, a faith-promise weekend, a youth trip — short seasons of focused generosity, each with its own goal and its own story.
Roughly 30% of the year's giving arrives at year-end. The December appeal, the Christmas offering, and clean January statements — ready before the season begins.
Run the initiative
Every initiative gets a dollar goal, a deadline, and a visible thermometer — on the dashboard and on its own giving page. Milestones break a large goal into phases the congregation can celebrate, and velocity tracking tells you whether you're on pace before the season ends, not after.
One shared number — on the dashboard, the giving page, the kiosk idle screen, and the lobby display.
Foundation, walls, roof — phased targets that turn a long initiative into moments of shared celebration.
Are we on pace for the goal? The platform answers week by week, while there's still time to act.
Gather the promises
A commitment made on a stewardship Sunday is a promise the church carries for a year — or, for a building fund, for several. AloraChurch shepherds every one of them.
Members make their commitment from a phone or the giving page — alongside the printed bulletin inserts your church already uses. Both land in the same initiative total.
Weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual installments over one year or several — so a three-year building-fund commitment made in 2026 is still being kept in 2028.
Gentle email nudges before and after each installment is due — stewardship in tone, never a collections notice. Staff are alerted too, so nothing falls through the cracks.
When payments stop, the commitment is flagged early — while a kind word from a pastor can still bring it back.
The live moment
Commitment Sunday. The live offering in worship. The building-fund banquet. Put a 4-character code and a QR on the screen — the congregation opens live.alorachurch.com, joins in seconds, and watches the total rise together, in real time, in the room.
The live screen — total, milestones, and recognition updating as gifts arrive
Season-aware
The platform knows the church year. Before each season opens, the AI drafts the initiative — name, copy, email subjects, a suggested goal — in your congregation's voice and your tradition's language. You review, adjust, and publish. Nothing auto-sends, ever.
The Advent initiative and Christmas Eve offering appear as drafts ahead of the season — ready for staff review.
Lenten generosity framed for your tradition — and for Orthodox congregations, the journey toward Pascha.
The commitment drive from late October through Christ the King — cards, emails, and weekly progress, prepared in advance.
Roughly 30% of the year's giving arrives at year-end. The appeal is drafted before December — not scrambled during it.
One total
However the congregation gives — at the doors, online, from the pew — every gift counts toward the same goal, and every screen shows the same live progress.
The foyer kiosk shows the initiative thermometer between gifts — every walk past the welcome desk is a progress update. Kiosks →
Each initiative gets its own branded giving page with story, goal, and progress — share the link, or print the QR in the Sunday bulletin. Giving pages →
A one-line embed puts the live thermometer and quick-give on your church's website — progress updates without anyone touching the site. Widgets →
Lobby TVs and fellowship-hall screens carry the same live progress — the whole building watches the goal rise together. Signage →
When the season ends
When the elders ask how the initiative went, the answer is already on the screen: initiative velocity against the goal, a recurring-revenue forecast for budget season, and a Giving Health Score for the congregation's overall giving — with fund-separated reporting and board-ready exports.
Reporting — the questions church leadership actually asks