2025 Financial Report: A Milestone Year for Generosity
Thank you for your commitment to sharing your gifts for the good of our United Methodist Church and its ministries. In 2025, you gave $5,056,797—80 percent of our budgeted…
Generosity is a Christian virtue. These resources will help leaders cultivate that virtue as well as plan stewardship/pledging campaigns.
Stewardship: Raising Up Generous Disciples (Guidelines 2025-2028)
Published by the United Methodist Publishing House
$6.99 for paperback or PDF
Help individuals join the local church community and pledge to support it through prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. The stewardship ministry ensures that these commitments are used effectively in various church ministries. This is your roadmap to successfully carrying out the important work of the ministry. One of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2025-2028 that cover church leadership areas, this resource is produced by Discipleship Ministries and updated quadrennially to reflect changes in the Book of Discipline. At the back of this short volume is a list of wonderful resources.
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