Friends, please enjoy this inspiring and inviting information from our Western Canada Stewardship Animator! You are very welcome to share the link to this post, and the details of the following six topics!
1. Seeking Meaningful Gift Ideas?
Our new gifts ideas for 2021-2022 are now available. Once again, we have the opportunity to “help change the world” with our generosity, and through specific Mission & Service Partners! While every pastoral charge has received a paper copy of the Gifts with Vision Catalogue, be sure to log on to the website to receive a complete list of this year’s gift options! Our gifts Transform and save lives, inspire meaning and purpose and build a better world. See Gifts with Vision.
2. A Full-length Boxing Day Worship Service ~ Available Now
This year, Boxing Day lands on a Sunday. In order to support ministry leaders planning two back-to-back services and because Boxing Day has social justice roots, the Mission & Service team has prepared a full Boxing Day service. Reflections can be offered by one worship leader or many. They can be shared separately or gathered into one sermon. The liturgy also contains prayers, hymn suggestions, and children’s time.
3. Worship Resources for Epiphany ~ Focus on Stewardship ~ Also Available Now
Discover Your Gifts―Share Your Gifts. Five weeks of sermons, prayers, liturgies, and children’s/youth resources for the season of Epiphany make combining worship with stewardship easy. Now available on the United Church Stewardship in Worship webpage.
4. NEW! 2022 Your Generosity Matters Booklets
Filled with inspiring stories, prayers and thought-provoking reflection questions, the 2022 Your Generosity Matters booklets will arrive at your church in January. Turn to this booklet when you need inspiring stories to share during worship, meeting openers, or small group conversation starters, and for your own personal devotions.
5. Called to Be the Church: The Giving Program 2022
This is your resource to help you grow generous disciples and access the resources God is providing to do God’s mission.
Your Annual-Giving Program for 2022 is already available!
- Get it now! You don’t have to wait until 2022 to get the newly updated resources for the Called to Be the Church: Congregational Giving Program. In fact, the giving kit will not be mailed to you this year. It is available from the UCRD store as a free digital download or the regular paper kit.
You can do it yourself!
- Information, ideas, downloads are all here. Inspire, Invite & Thank people to greater generosity.
You can do it with us!
- Starting in 2022, you can do your giving program with our help. Find out how we will work together toward a successful giving program here.
6. Not just November 30, You Can Give ANY Tuesday
For many of us these days, hope comes in the form of a vaccine. The COVID-19 crisis won’t end for anyone until it ends for everyone. And in some parts of the world, no end is in sight. That’s why for Giving Tuesday 2022, we invited people to give the ultimate gift – the gift of life. On Giving Tuesday, we launched a special vaccination appeal that is still available! For just $25, you can save a life – not only by providing a full vaccination to someone in the world who needs one, but by inspiring others to do the same. Click here to “Pay It Forward”.
For more information and support, you are warmly welcome to contact Vicki directly
Vicki Nelson (she/her)
Stewardship Animator
Pacific Mountain Region
Northern Spirit Region
Chinook Winds Region
Living Skies Region
Prairie to Pine Region
The United Church of Canada/L’Église Unie du Canada
Phone : 1-800-268-3781 ext. 2045
Email: VNelson@united-church.ca
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