Yearly Archives - 2022

Everything Rises and Falls With the Offering

“Just when we really get going in worship, then it is time for the offering, and it interrupts the flow of worship!” I actually had a staff member tell me that once when I was attempting to help their church reverse a decline in giving. That statement sums up most...


The 2022 State of Giving

64% of churches are optimistic about total cash gifts to their churches going into 2022, according to a study done by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).1. That is a 3% increase from their outlook going into 2021. “Despite incredible challenges through an environment with much adversity, 2021 has...


From the Desk of our Executive Director

Happy New Year and welcome to the newly updated 2022 Stewardship Journal! The 2022 Journal is now a web-based newsletter with clickable links. Each article is a blog post, and each weekly Journal is an e-newsletter with teasers and links to the articles. This significantly improves the static PDF that...