Stewardship

Stewardship in a time of pandemic

Rev. Larry Strenge, director of the ELCA Cultivating Generous Congregations, recently presented to the NW Minnesota synod. Watch his presentation.
The Generosity Project (TGP) – ELCA is providing the 5G: Live It Out! resource to you and your households for free. This resource is intended to encourage conversation and support households in their role as God’s stewards and financial managers during this time of economic crisis and fear. Please encourage your households to use this resource to find hope in God’s Story and engage in these faithful conversations. Get the resource here: https://www.uss-elca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/TGP-LIVE-IT-OUT-0320.pdf
How can we think about Stewardship during a pandemic? Congregational Finances During COVID-19
Should we spend our savings? Meditation on Genesis 41:25-36
Mission and Generosity
Stewardship of Restricted Funds
How to talk about Money during the pandemic: LIVE IT OUT! (from the ELCA Generosity Project)
Ideas from Brenda Moore
Ecumenical Stewardship Center: https://stewardshipresources.org/
Lilly Family School for Philanthropy resources
GSB Fundraising: advice for Stewardship during crisis

Resources for online giving

Stewardship Resources:

Check out this page for a calendar of stewardship training events in Region VIII
ELCA Stewardship Website
Sign up for ELCA StewardNet newsletter
ELCA StewardTalk Showcase – videos on Stewardship
Stewardship of Life Institute Website
PowerPoint presentations done by Chick Lane at a Bishop’s Day and at an event for congregations. Lane is the author of Ask, Thank Tell: Improving Stewardship Ministry in Your Congregation and loves working with congregations. Chick has extensive consulting experience helping churches articulate God’s mission for them, identify ways God is already working in the congregation, craft a compelling vision for the congregation’s future, and raise the funds needed to accomplish that vision.
Lilly Family School for Philanthropy