STEWARDSHIP
Creating and Managing Your Endowment Session 3
Whether your congregation, diocese or organization is just starting to plan for an endowment, or you wish to learn how better to manage and control an existing one, this workshop reviews best practices in endowment management. You will examine important documents to use for structuring your endowment and for clarifying its purpose. Participants will also learn about endowment policies and investment options which not only seek to protect an existing endowment, but will demonstrate how endowment can be used as to enhance your ministries and overall mission.
Mr. Jim Murphy, Senior Program Director of Stewardship Services, the Episcopal Church Foundation
Creation Care Begins at Home Session 1
There are many ways for us to become better stewards of creation. Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL) is a nonprofit organization that has been working with faith communities in Georgia over the past seven years on creation care, more specifically on issues of energy conservation and renewable energy. Many Episcopal congregations in Georgia have had energy audits of congregational buildings. And now, GIPL will be offering a new training program on home energy audits for interested members of congregations.
This workshop will be an overview of the new training which will cover building envelope, heating and cooling systems, lighting, appliances, and water use. Trainees will learn to assess energy usage in a home and to offer low cost recommendations for cutting energy use. Newly-trained auditors will then be able to conduct audits in congregation members’ homes. This is a good opportunity for members of the congregation to become educated on energy usage, enabling them and their fellow congregants to use less energy (and save money on utility bills), thus reducing their carbon footprints and becoming better stewards of creation.
Mr. Dan May and Ms. Carol Bartlett, Board members of Georgia Interfaith Power & Light
Families and Money: Training Parish Facilitators for Share Save Spend Session 1
This workshop will prepare facilitators to introduce and lead the Share Save Spend program in the parish. This program, created by Nathan Dungan, is based on the fact that faith communities have a unique opportunity to offer forums for intergenerational conversations with a hopeful message and practical tools that youth and adults can use to rebalance their money habits in ways that honor their values.
Deacon Charles Gearing, Families & Money Coordinator for the Diocese of Atlanta and Ms. Lauren Woody, Diocese of Atlanta Young Adults Coordinator
Finding Hope in Hard Times: Seven Spiritual Practices for parishioners Session 2
This workshop for Stewardship leaders will reflect on several spiritual practices for coping with these very uncertain times and how these circumstances can lead to opportunities for renewal and spiritual growth. Using the widely distributed resource from the Episcopal Church’s Stewardship Office, Finding Hope in Hard Times, participants will interactively reflect, discuss and discern possible solutions for the tensions and difficulties individuals and parishes are encountering in our current challenging economic circumstances and how this can benefit a parish’s annual Stewardship efforts.
Mr. Jim Murphy, Senior Program Director of Stewardship Services, the Episcopal Church Foundation
Planned Giving 101: How to Start or Reactivate Planned Giving in your Parish Session 2
This workshop will help you assess the potential benefit of a planned giving program in your parish and to understand the essential elements for a successful program. We will outline the proven steps necessary to establish a viable program, including the role of the Bishop Child Heritage Circle.
Deacon Charles Gearing, former Planned Giving Officer in the Diocese of Atlanta and Ms. Amy Amason, Planned Giving Officer for the Diocese of Atlanta
Stewardship in the Parish Session 3
For those who wish to explore the true stewardship message and ways it can be presented to parishes. The message is spiritual and biblically based, and the response can transform individuals and parishes. A basic course for lay people who have recently become stewardship chairs, vestry or committee members, and for clergy who want to know more about this ministry.
Mr. Karl Woltersdorf and Mr. Roger Sherrard, Commission on Stewardship Consultants
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