Resources: Funding Your Congregation's Vision

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Fostering a Culture of Generosity
Building a Hopeful Financial Future DVD/CD Resource Generosity is a critical expression of Christian discipleship and key to healthy congregational stewardship. This resource explores faith, generosity, and how generous congregations give rise to generous people. Through engaging videos, presentations, and supplemental materials you will learn concepts and strategies to cultivate generous stewardship in your congregation. Fostering a Culture of Generosity is appropriate for self study and for use with groups in your church.

The DVD contains two video presentations:
Generous Congregations, Generous People by Dr. Lovett H. Weems,Jr., Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership and Director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Faith and Generosity by Dr. David McAllister-Wilson, president of Wesley Theological Seminary

Brief video segments introduce the narrated presentations:
  • Generosity in the Bible
  • Cultivating Giving Among Younger Generationse
  • Increasing Revenue Streams Beyond Offerings
  • Electronic Giving
  • Building a Year-round Stewardship Plan
  • Financial Audits: Options and Best Practices
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Building a Hopeful Financial Future
Building a Hopeful Financial Future DVD/CD Resource Learn to fund your congregation's vision better with Building a Hopeful Financial Future. This new DVD/CD resource includes videos, narrated presentations, and PowerPoint presentations you can use for self study or with groups in your church, plus outlines of key points and supplemental materials.

The DVD contains two video presentations:
Leadership Essentials for the Church's Financial Future by Dr. Lovett H. Weems, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership and Director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Preaching and Stewardship by Rev. Tom Berlin, pastor of Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, Va.,  and coauthor of Bearing Fruit: Ministry with Real Results.
Brief video segments introduce the narrated presentations:
  • Best Practices for Financial Integrity
  • Church Financial Health Assessment
  • Planned Giving: What Every Church Can and Should Do
  • Tithing and Biblical Standards of Giving
  • Using Endowments to Build the Future
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Funding Your Ministry in Changing Times
Funding Your Congregation's VisionThe Funding Your Congregation's Vision resource package includes a DVD with video presentations by Dr. David McAllister-Wilson, President of Wesley Theological Seminary, and Dr. Lovett H. Weems, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership and Director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership. The package also includes a resource CD with PowerPoint presentations and other materials on the subjects listed below.
  • Developing an Operating Budget
  • The Three Pillars of Giving
  • Developing a Dashboard of Key Financial Indicators
  • Building and Funding a Capital Budget
  • Fostering Generosity in Children
  • Youth and Stewardship
  • Investing Church Funds Wisely
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Funding Bundles
Funding Bundle: Save when you purchase these three Funding Your Congregation's Vision resources together:
$195 (includes shipping)
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Funding Bundle + CGP: Save even more when you also include CGP, the Congregational Giving Profile:
$225 (includes shipping)
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