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Available
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Description
Asking parishioners for money is very different from creating congregations of generous people. In this provocative book, stewardship consultant Michael Durall argues convincingly that annual pledge drives inadvertently perpetuate low-level and same-level giving in congregations. Written with the voice of experience, this book will help clergy and lay leaders initiate and sustain effective stewardship programs. Durall believes that asking for money eventually becomes routine, even tedious-but creating a congregation of generous people becomes ever more meaningful with passing time.
Publication
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (1999), Edition: 1st, 118 pages
Media reviews
Amazon.com
"'Stewardship Is Not for Sissies' could be this book's subtitle." Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, Boston, Massachusetts
Amazon.com
"A practical voice in a conversation that is desperately needed." Boston College
User reviews
LibraryThing member uufnn
Kenneth B. Smith, a noted authority in the area of stewardship, says of this work, that it contains, ". . .practical suggestions, balanced with real-life congregational cases, (which) make (it) compelling." The last chapter presents a practical twelve month process for a stewardship campaign.
Call number
A > Congregational Development
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
118 p.; 8.93 inches
ISBN
1566992206 / 9781566992206
Other editions
Creating Congregations of Generous People by Michael Durall (Paperback)
Creating Congregations of Generous People by Michael Durall (Paperback)
Creating Congregations of Generous People by Michael Durall (Paperback)
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