one spirit, many gifts campaign at st. john the baptist new brighton
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One Spirit, Many Gifts Campaign at St. John the Baptist New Brighton. One Spirit, Many Gifts. One Spirit, Many Gifts. We Did the Campaign Ourselves The “What” and “Why” Of It. Steps toward a good long-term renewable Stewardship Program : Understand Catholic Stewardship - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
One Spirit, Many Gifts Campaign
atSt. John the
Baptist New Brighton
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Steps toward a good long-term renewable Stewardship Program:
Understand Catholic Stewardship
Know your parish
Take the “long view”
One Spirit, Many Gifts
We Did the Campaign Ourselves
The “What” and “Why” Of It
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Who We Are at
St. John’s in New
Brighton
We have a duty to educate and challenge our parishioners.
“… the diocesan or parish stewardship committee should have the responsibility to make sure that all leadership development and fund-raising efforts are consistent with, and reinforce, the theology and practice of stewardship as outlined in the pastoral letter and this manual” (Stewardship, A Disciple’s Response – page 52).
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Step 1 – Understanding Catholic Stewardship –
“Stewardship – A Disciple’s Response”
Seeking pledges in 5 areas of Stewardship:
Pledge to Prayer Pledge to Service Sunday Giving Capital Giving Planned Giving
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Step 1 – Understanding Catholic Stewardship –
“Stewardship – A Disciple’s Response”
History of campaigns at St. John’s:
Capital Campaigns – 4 previous capital campaigns
Sunday Giving Campaigns – several annual Sunday giving campaigns
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Step 2 – Know Your Parish and Turn that Knowledge into an Effective Program
The Pastor
The Co-Chairs
Bright, energetic, and motivated
Love the Catholic church and love
St. John’s
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Securing the RightLeadership
Create campaigns based on key parish demographics.
1. Seniors Head of household age 65 and
older2. School Families
Families with children in the school
3. Major Donors Combining Sunday Giving and
Capital Giving Who had given the most over the
last four CC’s and the last two years of Sunday Giving?
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Identifying “Affinity Groups”
4. Contributors Parishioners who have a
consistent record of financial giving
5. Sustainers Parishioners who gave in any
amount to all 4 prior Capital Campaigns
6. St. John’s at Large No record of giving financially (or
very small amounts given), not a school family, not a Senior, and no known involvement in ministry
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Identifying “Affinity Groups”
Case statement document
Campaign video – Mike Loftus
PowerPoint for the meetings that lays out the case for pledging in a consistent way
Commitment packet that includes a
pledge form
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Basic Tools
Very positive feedback from the parish.
We met our “realistic goal” and stopped the 10-year decline in Capital Giving.
We met our Sunday Giving goal.
We have a better sense of non-financial involvement in our parish through pledges made to prayer and personal service.
We went from less than 10 families we knew who had pledged to include St. John’s in their estate planning to 67.
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Outcomes
Between the campaign co-chair and the affinity group leaders, we developed a broad base of leadership and we were able to take advantage of different campaign ideas that were shared among leaders.
We have a solid platform for ongoing renewals of One Spirit, Many Gifts into the future.
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Outcomes
Understand Catholic Stewardship
Know your parish
Take the “long view”
One Spirit, Many Gifts
Steps Toward a Good Long-Term Renewable
Stewardship Program