Extravagant Generosity — Group Meeting Results

1.  Improve Congregational awareness of actual giving & Community Outreach Promotion

• Cultivate Giving
• Advertise or Promote What We Do Generously
• Get the word out, i.e. “Need Help call us”
• Use Website to Advertise “How We Can Help”
• Advertise on 4042.com and other local links
• Designated Giving For..
• Promote Awareness/Excitement about giving by showing actual progress

2. Teach Children/ Congregation Values of Giving

• Give the congregation jars “pennies for hunger” or other special offerings
• Promote Sunday School Giving- Use as teaching example for children
• Model by example
• Equate tithe Faith Promise to other Faith Promises
• Teach/Show Children The Value of Giving
• Develop promotion for people to set aside their tithes-jar,cigar box, shoe box, etc.
• Gift of Childbirth -Generosity to others
• Positive Feeling(response) from person you give to
• Can be a lifelong process, you don’t know the outcome
• Giving becomes natural through our Faith Journey
• More joy in giving than receiving
• Develop Rules And Share Rules For Giving (for example):
  • Gratitude for gifts
  • Developing Confidence in the giving cause
  • Accountability for gift use
  • Concern of Misuse of Generosity
  • Don’t Calculate the outcome of giving
  • We are accountable to God for Giving not spending. Not for what they do with it.
  • Don’t expect anything in return
  • Give to God first, Savings 2nd, then live on the rest
• Stewardship Campaign
• Publish articles on financial management from Dave Ramsey
• Offer adult study on money
• Monthly article in newsletter about giving- tithes, gifts, & offerings
• Writing a will and remembering your church

3. Connect Stewardship to Mission

• Fellowship Luncheon for Seniors
• Review/ Assess Sanctuary Facility improvement
• Youth Outreach into the community
• Complete Community Assessment Survey
• Annual Mission Trip for congregation
• Annual Congregation Retreat
• Use Fellowship Hall for Christian Pre School/ Home School Gatherings
• Offerings for mission work
• Give to another church so they can build their outreach program

White Memorial Presbyterian Church is embarking on a journey to build an even stronger congregation through the Five Practices of a Fruitful Congregation program.

Here are the foundations:

Radical Hospitality

Passionate Worship

Intentional Faith Development

Risk-taking Mission and Service

Extravagant Generosity

Find out how you can get involved by clicking here.

You can also sign up to join one of the themed committees. There will be a clipboard sign up sheet at church beginning on Sunday, Feb. 21.

You can also learn more about Five Practices of a Fruitful Congregation and find lots of resources and helpful material by clicking the program’s main Web site here.