Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! One recent study found only 13% of evangelicals give anything close to a tithe.1. The same study discovered that the medium gift of an evangelical was $350 yearly. Giving experts are predicting a decline in giving as our major donor base is aging and younger generations...
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! 88 percent of Evangelicals said they are happy with how often the church asks for tithes and donations. That dispels a myth that church members are unhappy when we talk about giving and money. Why then do so many pastors fear preaching on or asking for...
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! These are some of the most challenging days to minister in that any of us have ever experienced. We have all seen the headlines or heard the talk of ministerial weariness. At the end of last year, as we were planning out 2022, we wanted to...
Missouri Baptist Pastors are optimistic about giving! You will discover that by reading our lead post. Last year we started a series called Missouri Baptist Pastors Speak Up. We asked pastors their views on stewardship-related topics. We pick back up with that series in this issue of the Journal with...
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...
