Rev. Dennis Emrick
Vice President
Casting a vision that is based on prayer, faith, and service is a basis for effectively securing new funds for ministry. There always seems to be money for those things about which people are passionate. The greatest opportunities for local churches to grow their space, offering, and people.is in engaging their members to invest their time and talent in making a difference in the community -- near and far. The ability of a local church to raise funds to support ministry is directly dependent on the ability of the church to cast a vision that is based on faith, and large enough and clear enough to connect the donor with the reciepiant of the ministry in ways that are life changing for both.
Denny brings to Kirby-Smith Associates a commitment to help churches raise the money they need to make a difference with their ministry He has more than 36 year of experience as a parish pastor, denomination executive, and stewardship consultant.
Denny has been active in a variety of community-based organizations. He has served in organizations with direct outreach to people in impoverished communities. Rev. Emrick has training in Stewardship Development at the local church level, church planting, televangelism, and church redevelopment. In 1995, he founded Millennium Resourcing, a Capital Stewardship Campaign consulting firm through which he ministered for 10 years.
He has conducted Annual and Capital Campaigns in a diverse group of congregations as far west as the Mississippi. He has worked in Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, United Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Church of Christ Churches. He is the author of several articles on stewardship, and has conducted numerous workshops on stewardship in the local church.
Denny is fond of music, and at one time or another was a member of drum and bugle corps, and enjoys barbershop harmony. He is a Dave Ramsey trained Financial Coach and regularly coordinates sessions of Financial Peace University. On a Spring day you may find him with his fishing pole on his favorite lake.
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