Category: Annual Campaigns

2026 Stewardship Theme Materials

Comprehensive stewardship materials for your congregation’s annual stewardship efforts with the same robust content you’ve come to expect in an easier-to-navigate format.  There Our Hearts Will Be invites congregations into a season of deep spiritual alignment—an honest, hopeful exploration of how our practices, priorities, and resources reveal what truly claims our hearts. Rooted in Jesus’ teaching […]

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The Narrative Budget as a Tool for Regions

A TOOL FOR BUILDING TRUST, TRANSPARENCY, AND CONNECTION AS TOLD BY REV. ROBIN BLAKEMORE, INTERIM REGIONAL MINISTER FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN NEBRASKA Stewardship is often a loaded word in ministry. It’s far too easy to equate stewardship with money so that financial concerns become the sole focus of conversations or campaigns or the complexities and fear […]

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Matching First Time Pledges Idea

Every spring at our church the annual stewardship campaign comes around. A faithful team of volunteers are tasked with what seems like the impossible job of making this year’s campaign feel fresh and unique. This was precisely the mission before us, the stewardship team, as we entered a season of stewardship in early 2023.  Our […]

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Sample Campaign Letters

Does one size really fit all? It has been my experience that one size may be worn by all – but it will certainly look different depending on the size of the person wearing it! One size, in reality, doesn’t fit most, let alone all. The same is definitely true with letter writing and the […]

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