Describe what your church needs in a sentence. AloraChurch prepares the initiative name, copy, email subjects, social text, and a goal suggestion in your congregation's voice. Seasonal drafts appear before each season of the church year. Your staff reviews and publishes; nothing goes out on its own.
Draft support
You don't need a marketing team or a blank document. Tell the platform what you're raising money for, review the draft name, story, email subjects, social text, and suggested goal, then edit until it sounds like your church.
"We need to raise money for a new sanctuary roof before the rainy season"
Name: Sanctuary Roof Appeal
Goal: $25,000 (based on project scope)
Description: Help us protect our place of worship before the rains arrive...
Email: "Your gift can keep our sanctuary dry this season"
The church year is already on the calendar. Advent, Christmas Eve, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, Reformation Sunday for Protestant traditions, and autumn stewardship can appear as drafts before the season opens. You review, adjust, and publish.
A Baptist church's Lent appeal emphasizes spiritual stewardship and reflection. A Catholic parish's Advent initiative references the Incarnation and the parish's patron saint. A Methodist church uses connectional and apportionment language. A Pentecostal church frames giving as Spirit-led. Drafts start in that register.
Set a dollar target and deadline. A visual thermometer shows progress on the dashboard and the public giving page, velocity tracking shows whether you're on pace to reach the goal in time, and milestones break a large initiative into phases your congregation can celebrate.
Each initiative gets its own branded giving page with story, images, and checkout. Share the link or print the QR code for Sunday bulletins, flyers, and social media.
Initiative followers receive updates via email. Share milestones, impact stories, and progress reports to maintain momentum through the season.
Members create their own personal fundraising pages linked to your initiative — mission trips, youth camps, choir tours — then share with their networks to multiply your reach.
Two initiatives every church runs
The two giving rhythms generic platforms don't understand — built in as first-class patterns.
From late October through Christ the King Sunday: a commitment initiative with digital commitment cards alongside printed bulletin inserts, weekly progress for the elders, and year-end giving statements for every giver in January. More on commitments →
Capital initiatives that run for years, not weeks. Phased milestones — foundation, walls, roof — each with its own thermometer. Multi-year commitments with installment schedules and reminders, so a commitment made in faith in 2026 is still being fulfilled in 2028.
Live giving events
Commitment Sundays, live offering moments, gala nights, giving days. Start a live giving event and the congregation joins with a 4-character code or a QR scan at live.alorachurch.com — gifts appear on the screen in real time.
Put the 4-character code and QR on the projector. Givers join from their phones in seconds; the running total, milestones, and an optional leaderboard update live as every gift lands.
Kiosks in the foyer, an usher's phone as an overflow kiosk with Tap to Pay, QR codes on table cards, the giving page link in the bulletin — all counting toward the same live goal at once.
Celebrate as the event crosses each milestone — "We just passed halfway!" — with live output ready for projectors and lobby signage.
After the event, a thank-you draft can include the final total and impact summary for every giver who participated. Your staff approves before it goes out.
Live giving works alongside every enabled giving channel. See live giving events →