Stewardship – Make ‘Em Laugh! Three skits available for downloading in either PDF or WORD format. Customize the script to work for your congregation. Written by Margaret D. McGee, theses skits offer an excellent opportunity to present all the essential issues you want your members to consider when considering their pledge. Check out the details at the author’s web site.
The Bible on Money
The Stewardship Pages on The Episcopal Church website
Connect with the Christian Stewardship web pages of the Church of England
The Ecumenical Stewardship Center offers annual training opportunities as well as many useful publications.
Luther Seminary offers this very useful website which connects you to a wealth of resources (including a free newsletter) to help congregations and individuals develop their call to stewardship.
Generous Giving is a privately funded ministry that seeks to encourage givers of all income levels—as well as pastors, church lay leaders and others—to experience the joy of giving and embrace a lifestyle of generosity, according to God’s word and Christ’s example.
Bolder Giving's mission is to inspire us to give at our full potential by providing remarkable role models and practical support.
Website dedicated exclusively as a guide to Funding Ministry
Depth Perception is a bi-monthly resource for leaders in Christian Stewardship and Congregational Development issued by Design For Ministry. If you wish to receive this resource by way of e-mail simply write to: info@DesignForMinistry.com Also, visit the Design for Ministry webstore for an ever growing list of videos, books and downloadable resources.
Ministry of Money is a loving, prophetic Christian ministry which encourages all persons to become free from their attachment to cultural values regarding money and to live out joyfully God's call for their lives and resources.
A Christian cartoons and comics showcase and resource center.
Christian humor resource from Crosshome
Thinking Theologically About Wealth, Including Money (PDF) by Carol Johnston.
Carol Johnston notes in this essay that “‘money’ and wealth are notoriously difficult topics for most North American Christians to think about theologically.” For this reason, she seeks answers to several critical questions on the topic. What is “wealth”? What does wealth have to do with that which Jesus called an “abundant life”? What do we need for an abundant life, and what does that have to do with money?
Biblical and Theological Foundations of Stewardship -- A presentation by Diane Jacobson, Professor of Old Testament, Associate Dean of MA/MSM Programs, Luther Seminary at the 2003 gathering of pastors and spouse from the Southwest Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Effective Approaches to Growth and Stewardship in the Small Church. Perry Bell, Associate Conference Minister for Mission and Stewardship, Wisconsin Conference of the United Church of Christ From Congregations, Volume XX, No. 5, September/October 1994
Eight Ways Congregations Raise Pledges Perry Bell, Author. Action Information. July/August 1991. Vol. XVII, No. 4, pp. 10. Bethesda, MD: Alban Institute.
Stewardship Articles Archive from the United Methodist Church
The Liturgy of Abundance, The Myth of Scarcity by Walter Brueggemann.
Dr. Brueggermann is professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. This article appeared in the Christian Century, March 24-31, l999.
A Pastor’s Perspective on the Financing of American Religion by Richard R. Crocker from the website Resources for American Christianity. “With great appreciation for the fine work done by Chaves, Miller, Wuthnow, and the other researchers, and with genuine commendation that pastors turn to those resources for fuller explorations of the issues, I am now going to cut to the chase. At the risk of neglecting some important data, insights, and conclusions, I am going to list several broad and general assertions that seem to me most relevant, provocative, challenging, and helpful for those of us who are involved in the daily task of financing American religion.”
Want to know the value of volunteer time? Check out this site hosted by the Independent Sector for their annual determination of the value of volunteer time.
A report on the creators & marketers of popular culture for teenagers
Too much advertising makes our kids calloused to the dangers of commercialism. In this article Pat Veretto advises of the real dangers.
Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.
Say "Yes" to Healthy Financial Habits. Resources from Share Save Spend, Nathan Dungan, President and Founder
Consumer Price Index Calculator provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Stewardship Ministry resources from the Church of the Nazarene
Stewardship Ministry resources from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Pay special attention to the resources noted “Steward Bytes.”
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