Vision Resourcing

The Stewardship Campaign Process... Information, Inspiration, Community and Challenge

Our approach is simply to cultivate a Biblically-based stewardship culture as a scriptural method-that provides both personal growth for Christians and financial resources for the church. The process focuses attention on four key areas:

Idealized Information. This is accomplished through attractive newsletters, brochures, home visits, congregational gatherings and small group meetings.  It is about sharing information about a preferred future, a future that is brighter than today.

Inspirational motivation of your church's vision. Your dream is developed for the future of the church, and includes understanding and ownership by each participating member.  It is a practical example of the “future state”.

Community stimulation through fellowship. There are three (3) parts to fellowship; it is a process of sharing needs, sharing learning and having shared experiences.  It all helps to create a sense of belonging and of personal ownership of the mission and vision of the church.

Individualized challenge - the opportunity to act on the need in a responsible manner. It calls for a spiritual response from the people which results in significant commitments to meet the financial needs of the church.

Stewardship cultivation is effective because it makes an investment in the life of every member. No pressure or coercion is needed. We are committed to leading Christians through a process of making a spiritual decision about their giving.

To illustrate this, a story is told that when a pastor was preaching, his son was acting up and laughing in church (why is it that everything is funnier in church than anywhere else) so he pointed to his son and said, "when we get home you are going to be in trouble." That was INFORMATION that the son did not want to receive. He immediately was INSPIRED to behave better than what he was behaving in church and when they got home, they had a time of COMMUNITY STIMULATION together where the son was CHALLENGED to behave better next Sunday.

Stewardship cultivation is something that each and every one of us uses and we don't even realize what is happening. It is "hard-wired" into our personalities and is effective because it makes an investment in the life of every member. No pressure or coercion is needed.

We are committed to leading Christians through a process of making a spiritual decision about their giving.