Stewardship:
Webinars, Podcasts, Opportunities:
- Three Presbyterian entities offer an informational webinar on balancing church assets and liabilities, 6/2023 on demand: Click here
- Encouraging Year-end Giving, a PRC webinar, fall 2022: Click here
- The House Next Door: Gateway Presbyterian Church, a video from the Presbyterian Foundation: Click here
- Increasing Joy, Increasing Generosity in Your Congregation, a PRC webinar, fall 2022: Click here and handout.
- What’s Next For the Offering Plate, a PRC webinar: Click here
- Best Practices for Church Accounting, 6/2022 PRC webinar: Click here
- Mark Elsdon Podcasts on church finances: Click here
- Narrative Budgets: You can do this!
- Should You Do a “Second Annual” Pledge Drive?
- Encouraging Year End Giving
Articles, Resource Pages:
- Suffocating debt relieved by churches organizing debt buy-back through RIP Medical Debt, 6/2023 article: Click here
- Surprise: Millennials and Gen Z are Poised to Become the Church’s Best Givers, 7/2023 Carey Nieuwhof article: Click here
- 5 Money Shifts Every Church Should Make, a 3/2023 Church Juice article: Click here
- Finish Strong 2022
- IRA Rollover Handout 2020
- 2020 Year End Flyer
- January pledge letter
- January pledge letter for those 70.5 years+
- 4 Things about the Generational Report from Giving USA, a 3/2023 article from Cesie Delve Scheuermann of Inspiring Generosity highlighting some key points: Click here
- 44% of U.S. Adults Are Digital Donors—Here’s What Defines Them, 2/2023 Barna research article: Click here
- When the secular becomes sacred, 9/2022 article: Click here
- Horizons Stewardship – Helping Churches and Faith-Based Nonprofits Grow Disciples and Fund Ministry: Click here, 2022 Stewardship Giving and Worship Report: Click here
- The Church Fundraising Toolkit and other free resources from Tithe.ly: Click here
- Five steps to a successful capital campaign, 5/2022 article: Click here
- Per Capita: What’s in it for me? Here are just a few of the many ways you and your congregation benefit from your annual contribution, 1/2022 PC(USA) article: Click here
- What if stewardship was a reason instead of a season? 9/2021 article: Click here
- Putting the Fun Back Into Fundraising: Ideas to inspire and encourage giving, 9/2021 PC(USA) article: Click here
- Introducing your community to stewardship, 3/2021 PCUSA article: Click here
- Articles on Stewardship from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership: Click here
- RootedGood, The Oikos Accelerator: Helping Congregations Use Their Property To Further Their Ministry $: Click here
- RootedGood, Mycelium Network, a membership network of creative and dynamic leaders seeking to do more good in the world $99 yr: Click here
- The Presbyterian Foundation has tools to help congregations state their values through their budget, 6/2021 article: Click here
- The Generosity Project (ELCA): Click here
- PRC Stewardship & Finance page: Click here
- PC(USA) 2023-24 Giving Catalog: Click here
Studies & Resources:
- 4 Church Financial Leadership grants available: Click here
- A Review of 2023 Stewardship Materials from PRC: Click here
- Stewardship Navigator, a free stewardship resource from the Presbyterian Foundation: Click here
- Threads of Connection Activity from the Presbyterian Giving Catalog, 2023: Click here
- Digital, printable stewardship resources from SALT: Click here
- Money, Faith and You online study group from Faith and Money Network, $99: Click here
- Saving Grace: A Guide to Financial Well-Being provides the text and tools you need to address the topics of saving, earning, giving, spending, and debt, along with helpful strategies for achieving a sustainable financial life. Abingdon Press, 2020
- Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate by J. Clif Christopher $
- Whose Offering Plate Is It? By J. Clif Christopher $
- Giving to God: The Bible’s Good News about Living a Generous Life, by Mark Allan Powell, 2006, $15
- We Aren’t Broke: Uncovering Hidden Resources for Mission and Ministry by Mark Elsdon, 2021
- Bible Study on Stewardship (The Church of Scotland, 10 lessons): Click here
- Simple and Free: 7 Experiments Against Excess, Jen Hatmaker (also has a study guide and a guided journal – Click here to purchase)$: Click here
- Cokesbury studies on Stewardship: Click here
