Year-Round Stewardship

The following links are great resources to help you get to know more about year-round stewardship.

Links

• Stewardship Connection – Wtewardship Web site of Dr. Eugene Grimm, Stewardship Specialist for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• ELCA Stewardship Communication – the year-round stewardship communication Web site for the ELCA
• The Ecumenical Stewardship Center

Resources to download

• A Manual for Year-Round Stewardship – by Eugene Grimm and Richard Bosse
  A year-round approach to stewardship that considers three major elements:
  • Regular stewardship emphases such as regular reporting
  • Annual stewardship emphases such as a financial response program and a time and abilities emphasis (never the twain should meet)
  • Periodic steward emphases such as developing a Mission Endowment Fund and conducting a Wills Awareness Seminar
• Year-round planning calendar for growing stewards in your congregation