Book of Faith

• A 12-month narrative lectionary

12 Step Stewardship Plan

• PowerPoint Slideshow

Implementing a Narrative Budget

• Narrative Budget - How to Re-Tool your Line Item Budget into Your Story as a Missional Church

Best Practices

Elements and Practices for Congregational Stewardship

Consecration Sunday

• Stewardship education process

• Complete overview of a stewardship education process, and Guest Leader contact list

Grow One Step Chart

• A Revealing Breakdown of Congregations' Giving Patterns

Stewards of God's Love

A year-round guide to stewardship in your congregation

Year-Round Planning Calendar

A year 'round planning calendar for growing stewards in your congregation

Please call the synod office, (608) 788-5000, for more information about how the following people could help your congregation with any or all of its stewardship needs:

• Pastor Libby Howe, Director for Evangelical Mission/Asst. to the Bishop

• Mark Quade, former ELCA Stewardship Specialist

• Cindy Berg, Synod Mission Interpreter Corodinator

PowerPoint Presentations

• Adopt, Adapt, Antagonize Current Cultural Passions in Generosity, by Jill Schumann (former Pres/CEO of Lutheran Services in America)

• The Bilingual Church Leader: Speaking the Language of Money Within a Theological Context, by Janet T. Jamieson, Assoc. Prof. of Accounting, Univ. of Dubuque, Iowa, and Philip D. Jamieson, Asst. Prof. of Pastoral Theology, Univ. of Dubuque Theological Seminary

• Passing the Plate, by Michael Emerson, Prof. of Sociology, Rice University

• Financial Fusion: Re-Thinking Stewardship by Re-Integrating Our Faith with 100% of our Wealth, by Gary Moore, Founder of Financial Seminary

From Chick Lane (as presented in La Crosse Area Synod, Spring 2010)

• An Intentional Financial Stewardship Plan

• You & Money

• How Do We Talk About Money?

• Taboos & Other Fun Financial Realities

Web Resources

1. ELCA Stewardship Resources  - click various tabs for Leadership, Care for Creation, Lifestyle, Finances, Spiritual Gifts and Steward Net (newsletter)

2. Stewardship for the 21st Century, by Luther Seminary's Center for Stewardship Leaders

   • On the Center for Stewardship Leaders (CSL) site, at the top, find links for: Articles, Audio/Videos, Bible Studies, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Happenings, Humor, Illustrations, Letters, Links, Magazines, Quotes, Sermons, Stories and Worship Resources

   • Sign up for CSL weekly e-letter

3. Stewardship blogging database maintained by Gettysburg Seminary - to serve stewardship in the ELCA through its seminaries - www.stewardshipoflife.org 

New Online Giving Option for ELCA Congregations

• TITHE.LY - New Tools for Congregations

  Tithe.ly is an ELCA preferred vendor for electronic giving, but now have expanded their product line to offer website services and church management software. See more on Tithe.ly as a preferred vendor.