Giving, generosity and our relationship to money should be talked about year round, not just in the fall “stewardship season.” But how? The Moravian Ministries Foundation offers some excellent best practices! (Photo: Creative Commons)
Develop a year-round stewardship strategy
A year-round stewardship strategy is a good way to nurture a culture of generosity in your congregation. Watch this video of a webinar from the United Methodist Church to learn how. Handouts available. (Photo: Philip Chapman-Bell, Creative Commons)
Stewardship campaign resources at no cost
Tearing your hair out looking for resources? The Center for Faith & Giving (Disciples of Christ), has opened its archive of stewardship campaign resources at no charge (though they suggest a nominal donation). (Photo: Varkle69, Creative Commons)
Go with year-round stewardship for 2022!
To do stewardship well, churches have to focus on it more than just a couple weeks in the fall. The United Methodist Church offers a comprehensive 12-month strategy from Herb Mather. Check it out and start planning! (Photo by Grublee, via Bigstockphoto.com)
Teach These Five Stewardship Principles
Stewardship Pastor Dave Briggs offers five essential insights about stewardship insights that you should be teaching, preaching, and living in your ministry context. Doing so, he says, will help you build a healthy stewardship culture and a healthier church. (Photo: OTA Photos, Creative Commons)
Start Planning for Year-Round Stewardship in 2018
January 1 is less than two months away, so now’s the time to plan for a year-round stewardship effort that can help transform the culture of your church and the hearts of your people to incline toward generosity. This resource from the United Methodist Church lays out a simple 12-month plan to educate, inspire and nudge […]
Use this Year-Round Stewardship Calendar
Here is an excellent planning resource! Each month, the church season is explained and a theme is identified around which individual and congregational activities might take place in five recurring categories: Spiritual Growth, Ministry Spotlight, Financial Health, Outside Ourselves and God’s Creation. From the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. (Photo: Philip Chapman-Bell, Creative Commons
Best Practices for Year-Round Stewardship
It takes effort to make stewardship a part of your church culture 365 days a year, but here are some wonderful simple tips from the United Church of Canada. (Photo by Philip Chapman-Bell, used by Creative Commons license)