Thanks to Larry Wheeler for his intelligence on this topic! Honestly, it is always concerning and surprising to me when people ask about the minister knowing the pledge and giving amounts of the congregation members. Concerning because the question may indicate discomfort with the topic of money generally or around the role of the minister, […]
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Bill Clontz, Stewardship Consultant Long before I became a stewardship consultant, I recognized that my fellow Unitarian Universalists often have find it difficult to talk to each other about money, stewardship, and related topics. That realization is one of the reasons I became a stewardship consultant – I knew we needed get past this speed
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How Do Children and Youth Fit in Our Stewardship Culture? Bill Clontz, Stewardship Consultant Not long ago, a couple of members of the Stewardship for Us team met with a senior Unitarian Universalist leader to discuss the state of stewardship within our movement. We asked the question, “Where do you think we most often come up
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Why aren’t there more good annual drive videos from our congregations? I search around the web regularly for appealing congregational stewardship videos – ones that I can use as examples for other congregations. And they are very rare indeed. This puzzles me, since making videos is so easy with technology almost all of us use,
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Why Do We Pledge: Part VI This is actually an article from 2012 on another blog. But worth a repost in this series! We want our congregations to be welcoming to people of all ages, genders, races, sexual orientation, and economic levels. Our congregations are obvious in how we celebrate people of color, LBGT, folks
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Why Do We Pledge: Part V This is actually an article from 2012 on another blog. But worth a repost in this series! If you have worked with me as a consultant for your congregation, or you have been in a workshop with me at General Assembly, you probably know that I am quite fond
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