UMCGiving E-Newsletter

Will Our Children Be Good Stewards?
Assess Your Church’s Financial Health
High 5 – High Giving

5 Things Every Church Can Do To Promote Giving

Video: Living Simply, Giving Generously

High 5 – High Giving

United Methodist Communications can give you a hand with five key ingredients of highly successful churches. We call these our “high five.”

Learn about the ways shared ministry enables United Methodists to do together what no church, district or annual conference could do alone.
Visit www.umcgiving.org.

Assess Your Church’s Financial Health

"Pulse is low, budget looks anemic.”

Every church can benefit from ongoing efforts to improve its financial health. Financially fit congregations spend extra time and energy planning and analyzing their budget.

Strong churches always work to cultivate and encourage givers. Annual financial checkups are important.
Here are tips to determine your church’s fiscal health.

Will Our Children Be Good Stewards?

The answer relies largely on the level of conversation we foster in and through our faith communities. If we help children discover the relationship between faith and money, we may help multiple generations in unexpected ways.
Here are possible starting points for you and members of your congregation.

5 Things Every Church Can Do To Promote Giving

Download and insert the weekly Mission Moment in your worship bulletin.
2. Start a council meeting with one of the short videos you can find at youtube.com/umcgiving.
Give each member of your church council a copy of the Official United Methodist Program Calendar so they can identify special giving opportunities. Program calendars can be ordered at umcgiving.org/calendar.
Download resources for Special Sunday offerings at umcgiving.org/downloadables.
Provide free United Methodist giving resources in new member packets.
Find downloadable promotional tools at umcgiving.org/downloadables.

United Methodist pastor and his wife donate
60% of their annual income to charity.

If you are reading a pass-along copy of this issue, please go here to start your own account: I-Opt Subscriber Form.
United Methodist Communications: 810 12th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37203
Privacy Policy | Contact Us

Unsubscribe from this mailing.