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Create a Church Endowment Fund

An endowment fund can help provide financial stability for your congregation for years to come. This free 14-page resource offers solid advice for how to go about creating a fund — and even a checklist! Written for the Presbyterian Church (USA), it has good tips for any church. (Photo © rangizzz – Fotolia.com)

Stewardship Planning and Preparation

Here’s a handy how-to guide for setting up a stewardship committee and program in your church. It lists the players you need on the team, their role and their strategy. Good stuff from the Catholic Foundation of the Diocese of San Francisco. (Photo © Robert Kneschke – Fotolia.com)

Stewardship and Lent

Among the many opportunities the Lenten season provides for us, it also gives us many chances to broaden the discussion of stewardship. In our world, which is so driven by consumerism, greed, and wealth, this season calls us to turn away from these, and look again to the one true God. Here are some ideas […]

16 Ways to Increase Church Giving

Here are 16 great — yet simple — ideas that your congregation can take and run with. Number one should register a collective “Dugh”: Establish a stewardship committee.  Check out the other 15, from the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Lisafx, via Bigstock.com)

A Guide for Year-Round Financial Stewardship Planning

This is a comprehensive guide for your congregation’s stewardship and finance team — a 46-page resource from the Presbyterian Church USA! Just what your church needs to get started or to stay on track. (Photo © JulietPhotography – Fotolia.com)

Christian Stewardship: 7 Tips for Handling Money

To be a good steward you have to recognize your relationship to things that you have.  The proper relationship to things is to understand that everything belongs to God and that you have been given them to manage on God’s behalf. Here are some tips to help you put that into practice in the real […]

Talking to New Members about Giving

How does your congregation talk with new members about their giving? At many churches, the answer is poorly — if at all. That’s too bad, because many new members would likely appreciate some guidance about what to give. In this article stewardship expert Charles Lane offers some ideas on how to bring it up.   (Photo […]

Year-end Giving Ideas and Strategies

Year-end giving marks a confluence of three basic needs — the church’s need for money, the need of taxpayers to make charitable gifts before Dec. 31 and the need of Christians to give generously. Perfect, right? Here are some good ideas from Brian Kluth’s organization that can help you along.

10 ways to use QR codes in your church

Those funky square symbols are called “QR” (Quick Response) codes that can help your church develop a better presence in the digital age, especially with younger, tech-savvy Christians. This article from ChurchLeaders.com outlines some of the uses.

41 Thoughts on Stewardship

Looking for a nice stewardship quote for your newsletter, sermon or bulletin? Here’s the resource for you! The Barnabas Foundation has compiled this list that will provide something for every occasion. (Photo © trotzolga – Fotolia.com)