Monday, July 11, 2011

Specific Stewardship Materials...

If you are already looking to get down to brass tacks on a stewardship campaign, here are several links that might give you ideas, or from which you might order.

"Saints Alive" materials are produced by the Ecumenical Stewardship center (the PCUSA is a partner in that). They come out with a theme every year. Your church could use it as is, or use it as a jumping off point and tweak it to suit you. It comes with pretty comprehensive theme for every year.  Materials from previous years are available if you like those themes better. The first copy of this year's material is free. I'll have a 2011 book to look at at the presbytery meeting if you want to look at before you order.
http://www.stewardshipresources.org/WebStore/tabid/55/List/1/SortField/0/Default.aspx

The UCC has stuff that your church might can take and use. The downside is that all the purchased options have UCC logos on them...but you might get some ideas (like you might use pics of your own congregations with the "Count yourself Blessed" theme). I find their theology very close to ours.
http://www.ucc.org/stewardship/stewardship-resources/


Slightly less complete for you, but good ideas for themes and an interactive feature that lets people share their ideas is from the Luther Seminary website.
http://www.luthersem.edu/stewardship/database.aspx


GBOD which is the United Methodist site has some stewardship resources. Much of theirs is geared toward the pastor, but snoop away. They link to another site that provides good graphics if any of their themes might connect with what you want to do.
http://www.leway.net/StewProgs.html 

We hope to provide some ideas from the presbytery as well, but it may take some time and if you are ready to start now, perhaps this will be helpful.

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