Does your congregation wrestle with its budget? Does
your Session desire to deepen or broaden your congregation’s mission budget yet
struggle to pay staff? Is the “stewardship campaign” only a fall event or
series?
As I travel to General Assembly, I want to point you and your congregation’s finance leaders in the direction of synod. We are privileged to host this year’s national training for synods: Nurturing Generous Hearts II. For a mere $75 per person ($50 for commuters), you get three days of conference with two nights room and seven meals in our very own backyard. No traveling east is necessary. No planes or trains, just automobiles.
The keynote speakers will be the Rev. Dr. Karl Travis, senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth, Texas and Grace Duddy Pomroy, co-author of the book Embracing Stewardship. In addition to our keynoters and worship led by the Rev. Shannon Webster, (who some of you may remember as the former executive presbyter of Sierra Blanca Presbytery), there will be workshops for small and large congregations, for preachers and finance committees, for multi-racial and multi-cultural communities, for creating narrative budgets and asset based budgets, for creating glad and generous giving that is an expression of our faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Did I say that all this is available for the low, low price of $75? I think I did. What I have not mentioned yet is that Nurturing Generous Hearts II will be held Thursday, August 25 – 27, 2016 at the Hilton Phoenix Airport Hotel just east of Sky Harbor. Oh, and registration opened yesterday at www.synod.org.
As I travel to General Assembly, I want to point you and your congregation’s finance leaders in the direction of synod. We are privileged to host this year’s national training for synods: Nurturing Generous Hearts II. For a mere $75 per person ($50 for commuters), you get three days of conference with two nights room and seven meals in our very own backyard. No traveling east is necessary. No planes or trains, just automobiles.
The keynote speakers will be the Rev. Dr. Karl Travis, senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth, Texas and Grace Duddy Pomroy, co-author of the book Embracing Stewardship. In addition to our keynoters and worship led by the Rev. Shannon Webster, (who some of you may remember as the former executive presbyter of Sierra Blanca Presbytery), there will be workshops for small and large congregations, for preachers and finance committees, for multi-racial and multi-cultural communities, for creating narrative budgets and asset based budgets, for creating glad and generous giving that is an expression of our faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Did I say that all this is available for the low, low price of $75? I think I did. What I have not mentioned yet is that Nurturing Generous Hearts II will be held Thursday, August 25 – 27, 2016 at the Hilton Phoenix Airport Hotel just east of Sky Harbor. Oh, and registration opened yesterday at www.synod.org.
If you or anyone on
your church’s Session answered yes to one of the three questions in my opening
paragraph, you need to send your pastors and a contingent of elders to
Nurturing Generous Hearts II. It is long overdue for pastors to become
comfortable talking about money, for elders to envision stewardship as an
essential component of discipleship, and for congregants to learn the joy of
developing lifestyles of thankfulness and generosity as the inevitable response
to living in the grace of Jesus Christ!
Brad Munroe
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