Stewardship

Ministry and Mission Development Officer - Uell Kennedy, 01535 650555 email Uell

We have considerable experience in helping PCCs who wish to run stewardship campaigns in their parishes. 

Please contact Uell if you'd like him to come and discuss with you how to plan, organise and run an appropriate campaign for your parish.

What is Stewardship?

Stewardship involves the use of our time, talents and money in furthering the mission of the church.

Often parishes think about running a stewardship campaign when they're faced with a financial problem, but there are also parishes who run campaigns on a regular basis as a means of invigorating (or re-invigorating) the spiritual life of their church.

Whatever your situation, don’t hesitate to contact us.

How we can help

To run an effective campaign there are a number of essential elements :

• Commitment – it's important that the campaign has the full support of the PCC.  To achieve this we'll come and meet with your PCC to ‘get them all on board’.
• Planning – you must allow adequate time to plan a programme.  We will help you do this by taking you through the various steps which you need to follow.
• Paperwork – you will need to produce a small amount of paperwork to support your campaign.  We can show you what needs to be done and produce the paperwork for you, if you wish.
• Support – you may need some help from outside to provide, for example, someone to preach or run a meeting and slide show.  We can do this for you.

Remember, we're here to help.  Don’t hesitate to use us!

You can find the 2012 Giving Leaflet here.

Some Useful Links

Stewardship is a big subject.  If you wish to explore various aspects in more detail you might like to look at some of the links below :

www.parishresources.org.uk    -  a good site run by the Church of England National Stewardship Department
www.churchlegacy.org.uk   -  specific to legacy giving (prepared by the Church of England)
www.givingingrace.org   -  a lay led stewardship programme, from the Diocese of Liverpool, linking faith with giving as an act of worship, thanksgiving and ministry