Multiply giving to Minneapolis efforts of renewal and rebuilding.

Participate in and/or donate to the 2020 NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Virtual Walk championing justice, dignity and respect for everyone affected by mental illness. Saturday, September 26, 2020.

Key Considerations When Leasing Building Space to Outside Groups

By Domenic Dutra

Richard Rohr spends a week of Daily Meditations asking What Do We Do with Money? Thursday's Rights and Responsibilities, a reflection on The Parable of the Ten Gold Coins (Lk 19:11-27), is especially insightful.

The Lewis Center for Church Leadership offers articles, podcasts and leadership development courses on:

• Giving and Generosity
• Church Finances
• Clergy Personal Finance

Flipping the Script on Church Owned Property

How can local churches reimagine property stewardship so that a building can fund a church, rather than a church needing to fund a building? Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen offer examples of churches that have discovered innovative ways to leverage their property to fund their church and ministry.

Church Anew's Mark Elsdon is confident that We Aren't Broke.

6 Simple Steps to Launch a Planned Giving Program by Ann Michel of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership

The Promise of Digital Giving

Ann Michel says that as the church increasingly moves online, so too must the church’s ministry of generosity. But this future requires the capacity to receive digital gifts and skill in soliciting gifts electronically from people beyond the reach of Sunday services.

Lewis Center for Church Leadership has a growing list of Covid-19-related resources on topics of Social Action, Stewardship, Technology, and Hospitality.

Leveraging Your Church’s Assets featuring Jacqueline Jones-Smith

01.12.21

6 Reasons Your Church Needs a Planned Giving Program

By David L. Heetland On January 5, 2021

A Call to Overinvest in the Young

Bishop Janice Huie calls for a new approach to engaging younger people in the church. She argues for overinvesting in young people who don’t sit in our pews every Sunday by drawing resources from the center to the periphery of the church.

10 Ideas for Church Financial Leaders Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

5 Addictions the Church Must Overcome to Grow in the Future

Carey Nieuwhof explains that churches must respond to a culture that has become even more digital, mobile, and home-centered during the COVID-19 crisis. He predicts growing churches will focus less on place-based ministry and packed rooms and will adjust budgets and attitudes to fit a new reality.

Digital Tools: Church Administration

A comprehensive list of non-social media platforms and software that other Faith+Leaders are using.

Participation Is Up but Giving is Down for Many Congregations During the Pandemic

A Lake Institute survey reveals that a majority of congregations (52 percent) reported an increase in participation, but a plurality of respondents (41 percent) experienced a decrease in giving.

All In | Series Resources

• All In Series Overview
• All In Worship Resources
• All In Mission Engagement Ideas
• All In Preaching Resource
• All In Small Group Resources for Congregations
• All In Small Group Resources for Leaders
• All In Stewardship Campaign Timeline
• All In Consistent Pledger Letter
• All In Increasing Pledges Letter
• All In Newcomer Letter
• Non Pledging Household Letter
• All In Specific Pledge Increase Letter

The Congregational Economic Evaluation (CEE) enables congregations to receive feedback about current financial health, suggestions for action steps and toolkits based on that feedback; and comparisons between congregations nation-wide.

ELCA World Hunger encourage addressing local, regional and global hunger.

Seasonally appropriate materials guide congregations in specific actions and provide for worship and study.