Annual Giving Programs
We recommend the following resources that provide helpful insight for implementing a successful annual stewardship campaign at your church. Each program is written by experts with years of experience developing fundraising campaigns for churches and non-profit organizations. Contact information is available with each resource for ordering or obtaining more information.
Defying Gravity: Break Free from the Culture of More
By Tom Berlin
- A four-week stewardship campaign and small-group study
- Offers multiple format options, videos, handouts, and other tools
- Break free from the culture of “more” and help congregations become generous
- Describes what is required to sustain a vibrant life, what we need versus what we want, and what we can do to avoid being pulled into the orbit of materialism
Enough: Discovering Joy through Simplicity and Generosity
By Adam Hamilton
- Transforms how the church and individuals view the role of money in connection with their life’s purpose and the positive impact that transformation will have on the world
- Provides a campaign timeline, sample communication pieces, sermon series notes, and artwork for PowerPoint and signage
- Features a companion book with the same title that is to be used for church-wide and small-group studies
- Addresses the impact of the hyper-consumer culture and God’s call to be generous
Earn. Save. Give: Wesley's Simple Rules for Money
By James A. Harnish
- A twenty-first century translation of Wesley’s money management philosophy
- Provides everyone in your congregation adults, children, and teenagers – a new way to think about money
- Details Wesley’s concepts and beliefs about money in plain, useful language
Extravagant Generosity: The Heart of Giving
By Michael Reeves & Jennifer Tyler
- Built on Bishop Robert Schnase’s groundbreaking book Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
- Involves church members in thinking and praying about their financial discipleship on a day-to-day basis
- Encourages the congregation to read the devotional book Practicing Extravagant Generosity
Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Churches
By Michael Slaughter with Kim Miller
- Begins by focusing on personal budget planning
- Requires church-wide and small-group studies of the companion book, Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God’s Children
- Offers an overall stewardship program that is strategically placed throughout the year instead of a single annual event
- Provides a complete set of effective components, including a Leader’s Guide, group studies, video clips, worship celebrations, print-ready artwork, and sermons by the author, that are contained on DVD
New Consecration Sunday
By Herb Miller
A self-directed campaign
- Requires an outside leader/speaker
- Requires a meal for church leaders and a catered luncheon for the entire congregation
- Emphasizes the Christian responsibility of the giver to give
- Requires that estimate of giving cards be received on Consecration Sunday
Treasure
By Jacob Armstrong
- Reexamines how we look at our finances and possessions through the countercultural teachings of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6)
- A churchwide study and congregational program
- Encourages participants to compare their deepest beliefs and values with where they are currently giving their treasure (time, energy, and money)
- Includes compelling small-group videos, sermon ideas, and video lead-ins
