This document is the Final Report of the Organizing for Mission task force, approved by the Covenant Executive Board at its October 2011 meeting. Continue Reading »
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Final Report of Organizing for Mission
Stewardship Brochures
These stewardship brochures are part of the Stewardship Starter Kit and are available to download to help create a culture of giving in your church and a to help create a narrative budget. Continue Reading »
Stewardship Starter Kit
Compiled by the Stewardship Commission, the Stewardship Starter Kit resource is for churches and stewardship committees to use as they evaluate stewardship needs in their own churches. The kit contains everything from pledge cards to stewardship calendars to bulletin inserts on the three stewardship areas of earth stewardship, life stewardship, and financial stewardship. Continue Reading »
Loving and Giving Brochure
This brochure presents a holistic biblical perspective on stewardship. The pamphlet speaks to why, how, what, and where we give, with an emphasis placed on the head, heart, and hands.
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Stewardship Pledge Commitment Card
This pledge card helps individuals to recognize that we are called to serve with all of our gifts. This commitment card can be used in local churches to help members make a commitment to giving.
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Stewardship Calendar
Celebrate stewardship year-round using the Stewardship Calendar. The calendar consists of the entire year’s dates, arranged with the seasons and church calendar, and notated with the Lectionary texts and stewardship ideas throughout. It is an excellent resource for education opportunities, as well as a practical tool for planning the stewardship and worship year in community with the larger church. Continue Reading »
Moment to Moment: An Invitation to Prayer
Moment to Moment: An Invitation to Prayer is a guided prayer experience offering extended time and space for God. In the midst of an overly busy and increasingly demanding world, the nourishment of a rich and varied prayer life too often becomes a rarity, even a luxury. Continue Reading »
Streams and Pathways: An Exploration of Spiritual Practices
Streams and Pathways is a guided prayer experience designed to allow time for listening and for noticing the movements of God in our lives. The participant’s guide for this experience can be downloaded and reproduced for all those in your church taking part.
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Dig In Leaders’s and Participants’ Guide
Dig In is a six-session series developed by Joel Osterlund. This material invites participants to engage with Scripture so they might be transformed by God’s word and the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, deepening their walk and commitment to follow Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. Continue Reading »
Intentional Discipleship Guide
The Evangelical Covenant Church offers this Intentional Discipleship guide. It has been created so that individual churches may choose which aspects of their adult discipleship they would like to focus on first, whether it is to address an area of weakness, or make a strong ministry even stronger. Continue Reading »
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