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Encouraging Generosity

Encouraging Generosity. Diocese of Winchester Jan 2016. context. £ per tax-efficient planned giver per week. It feels like we’re playing uphill. FOCUSED ON THE MONEY. Four Key Tasks. Where is our focus?. Raising the money we need to resource mission and ministry.

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Encouraging Generosity

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  1. Encouraging Generosity Diocese of Winchester Jan 2016

  2. context £ per tax-efficient planned giver per week

  3. It feels like we’re playing uphill

  4. FOCUSED ON THE MONEY

  5. Four Key Tasks

  6. Where is our focus? Raising the money we need to resource mission and ministry Developing holistically generous discipleship

  7. The Parish Giving scheme • Single most important thing to resource mission and ministry. • Fantastic start: • Continued focus to encourage next phase of donors to join • Will becomes the norm for how we give to church • Transforms giving to support church.

  8. Beyond the Collection Plate? • Embrace the range of income streams for churches • Read it and share it around the finance committee and PCC • Maybe tackle one chapter or idea per meeting? • Don’t try to do everything at once!

  9. Friends groups • More potential here for increasing income • Potential for Friends of the church’s ministry not just fabric • Vulnerability: the significant role of the chair and committee • Constitution models to protect the PCC

  10. Digital giving • Text Giving promises more than it delivers • But can allow us to develop a good digital ask • Mobile payments and mobile giving • Will be the future • May suit Fresh Expressions • Website giving page

  11. Gift Aid and GASDS • Gift Aid worth £80million in 2013 • GASDS worth £12-£15 million • Support others locally • Checklist • Revisit the promotionof Gift Aid

  12. PARISH BUYING • A different form of stewardship • Values driven, and value seeking • Default option for parishes.

  13. BEYOND THE MONEY • Generosity Agenda • Living Generously – in all aspects • Preach and Teach to nurture generous disciples • Offering to God, rather than giving to church • Having generosity as a value – seen by others in how we operate as a church.

  14. It’s ABOUT MORE THAN the money • Faithraising not fundraising • Wider than giving to the Church and beyond • Holistic generosity • As part of discipleship • Culturally generous living

  15. Its easy to miscommunicate

  16. 3 challenges 1. What the offeringcommunicates

  17. Church Giving Why pass a bag or platearound during a service?

  18. Two REasons • Collection of offerings • Offering of ourselves in worship using money as a proxy. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Cor 9:7 And they exceeded our expectations: they gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.. 2 Cor 8:5

  19. Collection of offerings • Collection of offerings • for many giving is at unrealistic levels • Giving is often static • Encourages cash mindset – giving mixed messages. • Unannounced, and little explanation as to why it’s happening Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Cor 9:7

  20. Offering of ourselves • Often more a ‘collection’ than an ‘offering’ • Little sense of money being a proxy • Weekly routine can dull sense of offering. • Offering of ourselves in worship using money as a proxy. And they exceeded our expectations: they gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.. 2 Cor 8:5

  21. Reimagining the offertory www.parishresources.org.uk/offering

  22. CORPORATE PRACTICE 2. • Getting good corporate practice as a church. • Demonstrating and living shared values. • Consistency together and apart.

  23. Leaders as travellers • Our journey of generosity • Our personal stewardship • Our personal giving Each affect our walk as leaders

  24. Three challenges 3. Proportionate Giving & Generosity

  25. Proportionate Giving Household income

  26. Questions and Discussion

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