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Title: Developing a Strong Stewardship System


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Developing a Strong Stewardship System
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Goal
  • To develop and cultivate first-time giver into
    lifetime stewards and generous donor.

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For where your treasure is, there your heart
will be also.Luke 1234
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Myth
  • The unchurched dont want to hear about money.
  • Truth
  • Unchurched people are not afraid to talk about
    money. Only Christians will have a problem with
    money issues.

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Focus for this seminarMONEY!
  • If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try
    missing a couple of car payments... Anonymous
  • Every day I get up and look through the Forbes
    list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
    there, I go to work... Robert Orben
  • Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better
    class of enemy... Spike Mulligan
  • Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring
    you a more pleasant form of misery... Spike
    Mulligan
  • I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very
    nice to a wealthy relative right before he
    died... Forbes

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Focus of this Seminar
  • Regular church giving.
  • Not about Building campaign
  • Not about Fund raising campaign
  • Stewardship as discipleship.
  • This is a full-on discipleship issue
  • Never seen a disciple who isnt a giver...
    Randy Alcorn
  • Being a fully resourced church.
  • Ministry is expensive!
  • How do we set appropriate budget?
  • Every dollar you need to do ministry is in the
    pockets of your people.
  • Satan wants to keep money issues in the dark.

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We can talk about everything in the church but
money!
  • Major assumption
  • It is impossible to become a fully developed
    follower of Jesus unless you become a fully
    developed steward of personal resources.
  • Minor Assumptions
  • Our members are poorly trained on issues of
    financial stewardship. Most dont get ideas from
    church.
  • There is a difference between stewardship and
    donor development. (Not a campaign!)

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What is A Stewardship System?
  • Begins when an identified person gives a
    first-time gift and seeks to move them in a
    three-step process.

First-time giver
Regular Giver
Tither
Extravagant Giver
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
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Clarification
  • Not everyone moves at the same pace.
  • Many will move through these steps rapidly,
    others will not.
  • People will move in and out of the process.
  • Definitions of these steps will vary from church
    to church. Set your own numbers.

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5 Types of Givers
  • Non-givers - High percentage of attendees
  • Dont give because they havent been told Why.
  • First-time
  • Regular / Systematic Givers
  • Tither - proportionate givers
  • Extravagant Givers - Goes beyond the tithe.
    (Every Christian should move here)

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Step 0Cultivating First-time givers?
  • First-time givers are recognized an identifiable
    gift is given.
  • If you are not using offering envelopes you will
    never be able to intentionally move people
    through the giving process.
  • Dont be ashamed of building intentionality.

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Education is key!
  • Preach on it at least four-times a year.
  • Two important times of the year.
  • Jan - Budgeting and debt
  • Sept - Managing money
  • Short personal testimonies about giving.
  • Find good givers and let them share
  • Find those who have found peace through giving
  • Giving challenges at least twice a year.
  • Challenge first-time givers
  • Challenge regular givers to give at another
    level.
  • Provide ongoing resources
  • getting out of debt CDs and etc...
  • Create a giving brochure

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Help people know that the church is supported by
its members.
  • Life change happens through everyones giving.
  • Baptisms, Salvations, Community outreach.
  • Giving is about life-change not stuff!
  • Celebrate the purchase of things as a way to
    enhance life-change.

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Educate people on multiple options for giving.
  • Weekend Worship - Dont Take offering. Give
    offering. - (70 give this way)
  • Envelopes in bulletin every week.
  • On-line - (Paypal)
  • Send giving envelopes home.
  • Make envelope self addressed/stamped.
  • Many will take it home and put it in their bill
    stack and pay it when they pay monthly bills.
  • Automatic bank drafts

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Why Multiple ways?
  1. Cultivate new givers
  2. Give options to those who forget to give at
    weekend service
  3. Help those who are gone for extended periods of
    times.

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Check giving records every week!
  • Its your responsibility to know.
  • It may help you find potential problems with
    regular attendees.
  • Helps you adjust monthly budgets.
  • Allows you to track giving with topics and
    seasons of the year.

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First-time Follow-up
  • Follow-up with every firt-time giver.
  • Send a thank you letter and another envelope to
    give again.
  • Explain what you money did. (Cast Vision!)
  • By wednesday of every week.
  • Email to givers
  • Thank you packet
  • Letter
  • Auto-debit form
  • Financial teaching CD.
  • giving envelope
  • postcard on present teaching series.

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On-going follow-up
  • Quarterly giving statements
  • Thank you letter - With Vision
  • Postcard on present series
  • Financial CD
  • Auto-debit enroll form.
  • Giving envelope
  • Giving encouragement letter to all those who
    havent given lately.

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Step 1Cultivating Regular Givers
  • Educate - Give tools and understanding.
  • On the first day of every week, each one of you
    should set aside a sum of money in keeping with
    his income, saving it up, so that when I come no
    collections will have to be made... 1 Cor 162
  • Utilize an annual giving challenge. (2 to 3 month
    challenge)
  • Put a commitment card in the bulletin
  • Follow-up with those who accept the challenge
  • Layer the challenge to help people move in the
    process.

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  • Provide one stewardship small group each year.
  • Good Sense
  • Crown Ministry
  • David Ramsey
  • Randy Alcorn
  • For every person involved involved in a giving
    small group giving will increase by 1000 per
    year.
  • Use membership class to support the importance of
    giving.
  • Use a membership covenant that includes giving. -
    (Dont be shy!)
  • Regularly remind people of the importance of
    giving.

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  • Monthly Newsletters about good things going on in
    the church.
  • Thank everyone for being generous.
  • Annual Budget meeting. Vision Cast.
  • Look for those who are stepping up to a higher
    level of giving and send out a personal letter to
    thank them for their generosity.

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Step 2Cultivating Tithers
  • If you get the first-time system in place, this
    comes natural.
  • Educate regular givers why they need to tithe.
  • Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that
    there may be food in my house. Test me in this,"
    says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not
    throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out
    so much blessing that you will not have room
    enough for it... Mal 31o
  • Tithing is an act of worship. (Full tithe! Dont
    teach tithing through increments or steps.)
  • Challenge attendees to test God by tithing.
  • Consider that no one really knows what to do.

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Leadership Issues
  • People wont do what your staff doesnt do.
  • If staff isnt giving, they shouldnt be staff
    members.
  • Teach your staff on tithing
  • Hold every staff member accountable.
  • Pastors, if you cant be a good steward of your
    own money, you cant raise up good stewards.
  • Become a theological expert on giving.
  • Decide to family finances under control.
  • Decide to hold staff and family accountable to
    bring whole tithe.
  • Make annual progress toward becoming E.G.

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Step 3Cultivating Extravagant Givers
  • Move people to give sacrificially on a regular
    basis.
  • Teach that the tithe is a minimum.
  • Tithes go to the church
  • Offerings are above the tithe to other
    opportunities.
  • Do an annual special offering. (Christmas
    offering)
  • Do one-on-one vision casting with extravagant
    givers. Throw an annual dinner for top givers in
    church.
  • Dont be afraid to cast vision with big donors.

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  • Continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of
    our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 38
  • Command those who are rich in this present world
    not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in
    wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their
    hope in God, who richly provides us with
    everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do
    good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be
    generous and willing to share. 19In this way they
    will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm
    foundation for the coming age, so that they may
    take hold of the life that is truly life. 1 Tim
    617-19
  • But just as you excel in everythingin faith, in
    speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and
    in your love for us see that you also excel in
    this grace of giving. 2 Cor 87

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