Browsing Congregational Finance
‘Embrace Generosity’ Stewardship Emphasis
Here’s a complete stewardship emphasis guide for your congregation to put to use this fall. Embrace Generosity is a five week program of study, sermons, worship guides, handouts and more. Can’t put it to use this year? Bookmark it for next year and get going early! (Photo by Gayle Nicholson, used by Creative Commons license.)
Model Church Financial Policy
Does your congregation have an updated financial policy? If not, here’s a good place to start. LifeWay and Keith Hamilton provide a downloadable 2-page model policy that you can use or build on. (Photo: Ken Teegardin, Creative Commons)
10 Things You Should Know About Online Giving
Wanting to get started with online giving in your congregation? Be sure to download and read this handy guide from serviceU. It offers 10 considerations plus five books all pastors should read. Click the title to be redirected to the free PDF. (Photo: Creative Commons)
Basic Guide to Congregational Endowments
Looking for a basic guide to begin planning an endowment fund for your congregation? Download this free 42-page PDF from Thrivent and the InFaith Community Foundation. It has plenty of good material to get you started. (Photo: Raul Hernandez Gonzalez, Creative Commons)
Essentials of Church Fundraising
Call it financial stewardship, call it meeting the budget, call it what you will, but raising money is a necessity for just about every congregation to continue to serve God and God’s people. This handy guide offers some no-nonsense, practical advice for how to go about it. From Evangelical Christian Credit Union. (Photo by Mykl […]
Sacrificial Giving Program
Sacrificial giving requires of us that we put God’s priorities before our own, that we put the support of God’s Church and its mission before our own pleasure and comfort. In other words, we give to the Church a planned, proportionate amount of our income in gratitude for all that God has given to us. This six-week program will give you all the tools and inspiration you need to bring this idea into your congregation. (Photo by Lisafx, via Bigstock.com)
Growing Generous Givers
Often church leaders work countless hours planning how to limit spending, but they focus little attention on how to increase giving. We succeed where we focus our time and energy. Here, from BuildingChurchLeaders.com, is a fine piece on how to help increase giving. (Photo © laurent hamels – Fotolia.com)
Who Preaches the Stewardship Sermon?
It’s an perennial question that congregations ask — do we get an outside speaker to preach the stewardship sermon? There may be many good reasons why you’d want to get an outsider, but Gerry Rafftery of the Center for Stewardship Leaders at Luther Seminary says there are a lot of reasons why you wouldn’t. (Photo […]
A Manual for Year-Round Stewardship
Everybody knows the best stewardship efforts take place 365 days a year, and this manual is designed to help congregational leaders to formulate a vision for year-round stewardship and create a plan for implementing it. The manual gathers together some of the best resources of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Why NOT Tithe?
Through the prophet Malachi God tells faithful people to test the Almighty’s generosity by giving 10 percent. When one UCC pastor did just that, she learned that God did, indeed, throw open the gates of blessings. (Photo © thitimontoyai22 – Fotolia.com)
