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“On A Scale of 1 -10 (10 = Great), I Would Rate Stewardship on Our Website at About -3”

1 Comment / Communications, Pledge, Resources, Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

by Bill Clontz, Stewardship Consultant Does the title above sound familiar? Your website is effectively your Electronic Commons and your Electronic Front Door. It’s where potential visitors find you and where members come for information, ideas, and inspiration. Where and how stewardship is seen on your website is important. Unfortunately, on too many of our […]

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The Minister Knowing What People Give

Leadership, Pledge, Stewardship / Mark Ewert

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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Help is on the Way! A New Stewardship Resource is Coming

Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

Announcing a New Stewardship Resource by Bill Clontz and Mark Ewert We are pleased to advise friends, clients, and readers of Stewardship for Us that a new resource is coming your way. Beginning in April, 2016 we will be supplementing the team’s regular blog posts with 2-3 additional posts

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Look at Each Other- Eye to Eye, One Person at a Time

Covenant, Leadership, Pledge, Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

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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The Steward’s Identity

Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism / Mark Ewert

We all have different aspects to our identity, and some are more important to how we “identify” than others. I am a married, middle-aged, male to name a few – not necessarily in that order of priority. I also have identities in my congregation: member, former president, stewardship team member, etc. Someone else might include

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What About the Children?

Covenant, Leadership, Pledge, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism / Barry Finkelstein

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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Video Tips for Pledge Celebration

Pledge, Stewardship / Mark Ewert

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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Real Welcoming Includes Pledging Guidance

Pledge, Stewardship / Mark Ewert

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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Shall We Gather Together?

Resources, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism / Barry Finkelstein

Shall We Gather Together? Reflections on the Power and Potential of Cluster Workshops Bill Clontz, Stewardship Consultant I recently had the privilege of working with the North Texas Unitarian Universalist Congregations cluster (NTUUC) in an all day Stewardship Workshop, well hosted by the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Plano, TX. In reflecting

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