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Stewardship 2008
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Stewardship 2008
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Craft your stewardship vision statement
Leadership (Pastor, Stewardship Committee, staff)
Choose your communication/response method
Set your stewardship goals
Prepare a budget for stewardship campaign expenses
Choose a Bible verse that will serve as your theme
Create an image/graphic
Plan Sundays/special events
Determine number of mailings and content
Create a timeline
Design promotional pieces and mailings
Follow up
Craft Your Stewardship Vision
• Augustana continues to be “ridiculously
generous” place
• Help God’s people grow in their relationship
with Jesus through the use of the time,
talents, and finances God has entrusted to
them. (from the book, Ask, Thank, Tell by
Charles R. Lane)
Leadership
• Pastor
• The committee
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Mix of age groups and gender
Workers – there’s a lot to do!
Graphic design expertise is a plus
Marketing expertise is a plus
Good communicators
• Staff/lay leaders (involve them early & often)
Choose communication/response method
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Method: EVERY MEMBER VISIT
(most effective in congregations between 50 and 400 households.)
Advantages:
Deepens relationships within the congregation
Allows in-depth dialog with members
Provides opportunity for one on one education
Provides the highest level of financial response
Disadvantages:
Requires a significant number of people to visit
Need to train visitors to make calls on members
Program Option:
ELCA – Smart Living: Let the Word of Christ Dwell in You Richly
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Method: CONSECRATION SUNDAY (Works well in any size congregation)
Advantages:
Occurs during the natural rhythm of the congregation
Requires fewer volunteers
Disadvantages:
Much needed organization
Cost for supplies, outside leader and meals
Minimal benefit for non-worshippers
Program Option:
ELCA – Where your Heart Is
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Method: COTTAGE MEETINGS (works well in any size congregation)
Advantages:
Good opportunity for informal dialog about mission and ministry
Provides opportunity for education and interpretation
Disadvantages:
Need to select and train presenters
Need to invite members and serve food
Program Option:
ELCA – We Say Yes!
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Method: FELLOWSHIP MEAL or DESSERT and COFFEE
(works best in small size or rural congregations)
Advantages:
Comfortable setting for talking about mission and ministry
Provides some opportunity for education and interpretation
Opportunity for dialog
Does not require training
Disadvantages:
Provides average response
Some cost for food
Program Option:
ELCA –Legacy: That Your Faith May Live
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Method: RELAY RESPONSE
(works best in congregations where members live geographically close to one
another)
Advantages:
Easy to plan and execute
Produces better response than temple talks or letters
Requires few people to plan
Involves entire congregation in implementation (could also be disadvantage)
Disadvantages:
Requires close monitoring
Some training of leadership
Program Option
“Giving Magazine”
Choose communication/response method
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Method: TEMPLE TALKS
Advantages:
Better response than letters
No Cost
People like to hear others stories
Disadvantages:
Only reaches those at worship
Limited response
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Method: LETTER CAMPAIGN
Advantages:
Easy, minimal cost
Reaches less active members
Disadvantages:
Generates only minimal response
Allows for very limited education and
interpretation
Set your stewardship goals
• To set, or not to set, that is the question! Should you set and
communicate a target budget amount?
• Our goals include:
- Increasing the number of participants by 10 %
- Encouraging members to increase their giving by
1 % of household income, as a step toward tithing
(encourage growth in giving)
- Increasing the use of automated giving by
10 % (encourage first fruits giving)
Prepare your budget
• Stewardship expenses are a dedicated line
item in general budget
• Stewardship materials need to be well done
and professional
• Many organizations are competing for your
member’s dollars, your information needs to
stand out
Choose a verse to serve as your theme
• Pastor selects Bible verse
• You Open your hand, satisfying
the desire of every living thing.
Psalm 145:16
Choose a verse
• God provides every blessing in abundance.
So that by always having enough of
everything you may share abundantly in
every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
Choose a verse
• My child, do not forget my teaching, but
let your heart keep my commandments;
for length of days and years of life and
abundant welfare they will give you.
Proverbs 3:1-2
Choose a verse
• My child, do not forget my teaching, but let
your heart keep my commandments; for
length of days and years of life and abundant
welfare they will give you.
Proverbs 3:1-2
Choose a verse
• . . . Be transformed by the renewing of
your minds, so that you may discern what
is the will of God.
Romans 12:2
Choose a verse
• You are rich in everything—in faith, in
speaking, in knowledge, in truly wanting to
help, and in the love you have learned from
us. In the same way, be strong also in the
grace of giving.
2 Corinthians 8:7