Overview of a Parish Stewardship Campaign Plan

A Sample Generic Plan for Your Presentation and Use

Stewardship grows out of a

healthy community of faith

St. Swithum’s Anglican Church

Stewardship Program

What?

Our stewardship campaign will educate the congregation on Christian

Stewardship increase funding support to the Parish and

to Stewards in Action invite three-year pledges for the parish’s

Honouring Our Commitment target

Why a different approach?

Our congregation is not providing adequate resources to support current ministry and programming

reliance on regular appeals and special fund raisers to balance budget

current credit line of $35,000 to run church

demographics

Our Demographics

200 members/families on membership role 100 giving members/families 73% of givers are over sixty 68% of givings are from those over sixty 14% of our congregation is under fifty

Conclusion: A time bomb

Choices Cut costs to match revenue

a downward spiral

Increase the resources available to match the ministry in terms of: TIME TALENT DOLLARS

Decision…

Made by the congregation over the last 10 years capital campaign hiring of part-time minister renewing commitment to youth ministry establishing telephone care ministry

….TO TRY TO INCREASE THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES

Stewardship Education

We have to go back to the tenets of our faith about stewardship

We have to learn about giving We have to educate We have to set the example

Stewardship is not:

An optionA church frill

Stewardship is the essence

of Christianity

During the past five years...

we have renovated the Church and Hall for worship and Christian education

raised $ .5 million for capital campaign

During the past two years...

we have worked together on the stewardship of our ministry and outreach prioritiesestablished a unique Care program we have already taken giant steps forward!

Now we must move forward

We must invite members to more intentionally:

Become more connected with one another Become more connected to the church Help young families to become aware of

what the church has to offer them

A need to go visiting

This work now needs to be taken out to the members of our church: to ask them for input to discuss how we can best meet their

particular needs to ask them to supply the resources to

accomplish our mission

Over a four week period:

From November 2nd – Launch Sunday

to

November 23rd – Commitment Sunday

People will be invited to do FOUR things:

First...

To become more conscious of ourselves as stewards of all that God has entrusted to us...

Our lives, Our families, Our work, Our relationships at church, The congregation’s vision for ministry and

outreach including Stewards in Action, and Honouring Our Commitment

Second...

To reflect about their contributions to the Church of:

Time

Talent

Dollars

Third...

To learn the whys and hows of giving a proportion of their income back to God through the church.

We will provide guidance on what people give, what they could target and start them on the first steps towards tithing.

Fourth...

To attend a: (pick one) Festive Meal Cottage Meeting Consecration Sunday Luncheon

Welcome a visitor into their home To discuss the congregation’s directions and

the plan for inviting all of us to join together in making our new directions a reality.

Key Dates

October 21st Stewardship Committee Meeting

October 28th Presentation to Council November 2nd Stewardship Launch November 22nd Festive Meal November 23rd Commitment

Sunday

Stewardship Organization

Church Church CommitteeCommittee

ClergyClergy

RectorRectorEvents CoordinatorEvents Coordinator

Communications CoordCommunications CoordEducation CoordinatorEducation Coordinator

SIA CoordinatorSIA CoordinatorHOC CoordinatorHOC CoordinatorAdmin SupportAdmin Support

Stewardship ChairStewardship Chair

Council provides leadership by:

Approving the stewardship program plan and congregational theology of giving

Becoming workers and leaders in the program

Establishing a congregational ‘benchmark’ for giving as a guideline to the program

Acting as advocates for the program’s goals and proportionate giving

Modeling the ‘benchmark’ in their own giving