Welcome to Project Resource’s Summer Stewardship Series. This is the first in a series of six articles this summer. Over the coming weeks, the Project Resource team will be sharing information, tips and links to resources to help prepare you for stewardship season and more. We hope you find this support useful.
Our upcoming August 2022 workshop will develop these and other aspects for your annual stewardship pledge season this fall. Online registration will open in July.
You may also contact us for one to one support to you, your team, vestry or clergy, by emailing us.
HOW TO RECONNECT, BUILD & ENGAGE
Today’s topics, intentionally chosen to be first:
- keeping in touch and reconnecting
- building your team
Keeping in Touch and Reconnecting
We hear from you, and see everywhere ourselves, that keeping in touch and reconnecting is a priority. The following four topics may offer you some insights and ideas to consider within your congregation:
- How are parishes keeping in touch? What are people trying?
- The Connection of Keeping in Touch and Stewardship
- Link to YouTube Clip
- Keeping-in-Touch-Session 02 (March 22 2022).pdf – Slides 4-5
- Some Pitfalls in Encouraging Participation
- Link to YouTube Clip
- Keeping-in-Touch-Session 02 (March 22 2022).pdf – Slides 15-16
- Re-Engaging Through New & Pivoted Ministries
Building Your Team
At this stage, you have made a good start. You are praying and acting. Many of you attended our workshop in May. Here in June, you are seeking to build your team and engage volunteers. These may be helpful as you reach out to others:
Why Stewardship?
Stewardship Team
- Building Your Team
- Who Makes a Good Stewardship Team Member and How Can You Recruit Potential Committee Members
Using Summer Well
- Summer Timeline To Prepare
Fall Stewardship 2022
- Sample Fall Stewardship Timeline
- Mark Your Calendar: Stewardship Sunday – October 23, 2022
- Link to YouTube Clip
Stewardship ultimately is about relationship with God in thanks, and with other people in community. We encourage you to turn to these relationships as you act on the instincts of your heart and even (perhaps especially) as you look for your one next step.
We at Project Resource will be here for these relationships.
MORE RESOURCES
- Summer Stewardship Email Series
- Summer Email Series Resources
- “Use Summer Well for Your Fall Pledges and More” Recording & Slides
- “Keeping In Touch With Parishioners During Covid & Beyond” Recording & Slides
- Online Project Resource library
Stewardship is giving thanks to God, in community. We give thanks in our prayers for your faithfulness, your thankfulness, and your sense of ministry. These gifts will see us through again and again.
Together in Christ,
Project Resource:
The Stewardship Commission of the Diocese of New Jersey
