The Grand Canyon Synod Stewardship Team is happy to share a 2020 Narrative Spending resource. Available as PDF and PNG image, in one page this narrative helps you tell the story of how mission support funds sent to the Grand Canyon Synod are utilized in God’s work.
When you invite your members to give to the church, you invite them to participate in God's work locally and also in places that they cannot be physically. They get excited to be part of it!
Read MoreThanks for to all who attended the Grand Canyon Synod’s Stewardship presentation on Planning for a 2020 Stewardship Appeal.
We're providing access to a video of the meeting and some of the resources and options shared that are helpful planning to tell the stories of ministry that encourage faithful generosity.
Read MoreA new document from The Generosity Project provides valuable resources and ideas for rethinking the way we approach ministry. This resource document will help you create a lasting culture of effective financial stewardship and generosity, beginning with our households of every age and stage.
Read MoreAre you wondering how to talk about generosity in these Covid times? Could your congregation use new stewardship perspectives this fall as you prepare for your appeal? Get professional, relevant help this year with Beginning a Culture of Generosity, a program from the consulting firm GSB Fundraising. Register by August 15, 2020.
GSB Fundraising has tutored scores of congregations, and in this five minute video, Mike Ward explains how you can access valuable and customized tools of a unique time.
Read MoreThe Grand Canyon Synod Stewardship Team invites you to a web event, Planning for 2020 Stewardship Appeal, which will help you respond to God's call for support of your church's mission in this season of COVID-19.
Join us via Zoom on Monday, July 13, 2020, at 7 pm. Click here to register in advance for this meeting.
Read MoreBeginning a Culture of Generosity (BCG) and is a timely program presented by 3E and the Grand Canyon Synod, designed to guide congregations through their fall stewardship appeal in this challenging year.
The program aims for congregations to stabilize current 2020 year giving to 2019 (pre-Coronavirus) levels, with modest growth for 2021. Registration is open through August 15th.
3E and GCS are offering a $500 scholarship for each congregation toward the program cost of $650.
Read MoreGrand Canyon Synod members attended a free stewardship presentation by Evan Moilan, CFRE, entitled “Stewardship in Uncertain Times” on Monday, May 18, 2020.
In this seminar, Evan Moilan used historical giving data and new forecasts to share best practices that congregations can engage right now, and over the next few months to ensure generosity not only continues but strengthens in their ministries.
Read MoreYou are invited to attend a free stewardship presentation by Evan Moilan, CFRE, entitled “Best Practices for Engaging Generosity in Uncertain Times” via Zoom on Monday, May 18, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. Please register in advance for this meeting. We have a large capacity for this meeting so please feel free to invite your stewardship committees, church councils, and anyone else interested.
Evan works with GSB Fundraising, and recently talked on one of the synod’s Zoom meetings with congregation presidents. His talk generated enough interest for a full seminar of best practices.
Read MoreThe foundation of The Generosity Project is knee-to-knee, eye-to-eye interaction between all ages and generations; equipping households as places where generosity is practiced; and the belief that with God, there is more than enough.
The Coronavirus seems to be challenging these premises and practices...
Read MoreIn response to the spread of COVID 19, how do we as humans participate and experience life in relationship to one another as global citizens, family members, and people of faith?
Linda Staats has curated responses from trusted leaders in our faith communities and friends of HomeGrown Faith. Each provides a valuable resource for Connecting Home, School and Congregation.
Read MoreView this post to see photos from our first synod Generosity Project Lab, representing eight decades, six generations, and five congregations. Recently featured in Living Lutheran, the Generosity Project connects generations and equips households for the faith practice of generosity.
Register for the Tucson and Las Vegas labs: Our Saviour’s Lutheran, Tucson, 10/12/2019; Reformation Lutheran, Las Vegas, 11/2/2019.
Read MoreRecently featured in Living Lutheran, the Generosity Project connects generations and equips households for the faith practice of generosity. This is the week to register for the Phoenix and Tucson labs.
All Saints Lutheran, Phoenix, 10/5/2019
Our Saviour’s Lutheran, Tucson, 10/12/2019
Reformation Lutheran, Las Vegas, 11/2/2019.
Sharing God’s gifts with one another through stewardship is an integral part of the Lutheran faith. But sometimes the idea of stewardship gets misunderstood, equated simply with monetary giving rather than a generosity of much more—time, spirit, love. Linda Staats is trying to change that with the Generosity Project, a new stewardship resource she authored for ELCA congregations.
Read the article in Living Lutheran, and find out more about the Generosity Project in the Grand Canyon Synod and register for upcoming lab dates.
Read MoreDeadlines are quickly approaching for congregations and individuals to sign up for The Generosity Project’s Labs, which connects generations and equips households for the faith practice of generosity. Register and learn more here.
All Saints Lutheran, Phoenix, 10/5/2019
Our Saviour’s Lutheran, Tucson, 10/12/2019 • Registration deadline: 10/4/2019
Reformation Lutheran, Las Vegas, 11/2/2019 • Registration deadline: 10/25/2019
Registration is now open for The Generosity Project Labs for congregations and households. Learn about the opportunity to develop disciples and steward leaders across multiple generations.
All Saints Lutheran, Phoenix, 10/5/2019
Our Saviour’s Lutheran, Tucson, 10/12/2019
Reformation Lutheran, Las Vegas, 11/2/2019
The ELCA Generosity Project is coming to the Grand Canyon Synod! Learn about the opportunity to develop disciples and steward leaders across multiple generations in your congregation and households.
This intergenerational, household focused approach to stewardship is made possible by a grant from the SOLI Foundation to the Grand Canyon Synod.
Read MoreThe GCS Stewardship Team received notice from the Stewardship of Life Institute (SOLI) that they are the recipients of a $6000 grant to help bring The ELCA Generosity Project to the Grand Canyon Synod over a course of 18-months, beginning fall 2019.
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