Faithful, Hopeful, Loving is a companion resource to Giving Magazine Volume 22, produced in 2020 by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center. It includes campaign guidance, preaching guides, bible study/small group materials, worship/liturgy, children’s sermons, model letters and communication support.

This resource from Cooperative Baptist Fellowship helps congregations learn and implement best practices for your church budgeting process, including a focus on generosity, value alignment and narrative budget work.

David P. King, Ph.D. explains how giving helps build community, character and connection.

Reflecting on a phrase from John Wesley, Melissa Spas invites us to consider a new imagination for congregations today.

This issue of Giving Magazine focuses on Stewardship and Generosity. The articles in this issue aspire to provide practical advice to improve individual congregations practices of faithful generosity.

Bruce Barkhauer shares a Biblical foundation for stewardship from the Christian tradition.

Leaders of a church in Pennsylvania launched a Year of Contagious Generosity, and what happened next surprised a lot of people. Money raised benefited the local fire department, school district, and helped rebuild a community playground.

Marc Kirchoff shares how giving digitally became a part of worship.

Meredith McNabb writes that congregations’ own economic practices are a potent model of what faithful generosity and stewardship look like.

Does it matter if clergy know about individual financial giving? Yes, it does and Meredith McNabb shares why.