More than 2,300 Bible passages address money. How does your church want to talk about and live out biblical-based financial stewardship?
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Stewardship ministry
Stewardship Ministry Wheel
The Everence Stewardship Ministry Wheel is a comprehensive guide for cultivating congregational generosity and deepening the understanding and practice of faithful stewardship. At Everence, we believe the work of planning, telling, teaching, inviting, and thanking is rooted in a growing faith in Jesus Christ. It’s framed by the understanding that everything in our care belongs to God (Psalm 24:1) and aimed at developing a vibrant stewardship ministry that supports and sustains each church’s mission.
Teaching Biblical Stewardship
Sermon and worship resources
Worship resources are one of the most popular requests from pastors. You can download these resources (all PDFs) to broaden and enrich your stewardship preaching and worship services.
30 Days of Generosity
Jesus had much to say about our financial decisions – largely because he knew they were actually spiritual decisions. 30 Days of Generosity is more than a concentrated curriculum to help your congregation increase ministry funding. Transform and encourage the hearts of your congregation to see that every financial decision is a response to God’s goodness.
Trees and the Fruit they Bear
This worship guide focuses on 'Trees and the Fruit They Bear,' drawing from Genesis 2, Psalm 1, and Revelation 22. These passages illuminate how trees symbolize God's provision and our role in stewarding His abundant gifts for the flourishing of all creation.
Sabbath for a whole year
This worship guide offers reflections on the theme of Sabbath as a gift. Using key themes from Leviticus 25 you are invited to build illustrations and points of connections from your own community regarding how the gift of Sabbath is intended not just for God’s people but for all of God’s creation.
Responding to costly love
This worship guide for Stewardship Sunday focuses on the costly love that Jesus extends to us. Through the story of Zacchaeus, we see how stewardship can be part of every aspect of our lives and ask ourselves how we want to respond to the costly love Jesus offers.
Hands to heal the world
This worship guide offers an exegetical summary of John 5:1-15, the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda, from the unique perspective of stewardship. As a pastor, you will embody this message in a way that resonates in your own spirit to reach your faith community. Within this outline, there are various resources to adapt for your worship service.
Prayer of Agur
Proverbs 30:7-9a is a short and powerful text often referred to as the Prayer of Agur. The phrase that stands out is when Agur prays, “Don’t make me either poor or rich, but give me only the bread I need each day.” A pretty bold request.
Share this stewardship story in your church, using the overview below that includes sermon and worship ideas for this special Sunday.
Joseph: Steward of God
What would you do if you were walking in the sandals of Joseph, working in the court of Pharaoh? In Exodus 1, he was the right-hand man of a dictator. This role was fraught with moral dilemmas that arise when God’s Kingdom and Pharaoh’s empire collide.
Share this stewardship story in your church, using the overview below that includes sermon and worship ideas for this special Sunday.
Generosity: The fruit of gratitude
Look at Luke 7:36-50. This passage contrasts a Pharisee and a woman, focusing on their displays of gratitude and generosity. It ties together forgiveness, grace, love, gratitude and generosity in a powerful way, through the actions of a sinful woman, the response of a Pharisee and one of Jesus’ captivating stories about a benevolent moneylender.
Share this stewardship story in your church, using the overview below that includes sermon and worship ideas for this special Sunday.
The gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Luke: the relationship between salvation, discipleship and wealth
Jesus said, “… one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Luke 12:15
Luke the gospel writer highlights stories from Jesus that address issues of wealth, poverty and generosity – many of which are not included in the other gospels.
El evangelio de Lucas
El evangelio de Lucas: la relación entre la salvación, el discipulado y la riqueza
Jesús dijo, “… la vida no depende del poseer muchas cosas”. —Lucas 12:15b
Lucas, el autor del evangelio resalta historias de Jesús que tratan temas relacionados a la riqueza, pobreza, y la generosidad—los cuales no son tratados en los otros evangelios.
Found faithful
Found faithful: A four-Sunday worship series
Think of us this way as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. I Corinthians 4:1-2 (NRSV)
Encontrado fiel
Encontrado fiel: Una serie para cuatro domingos
Que todos nos consideren servidores de Cristo, encargados de administrar los misterios de Dios. Ahora bien, a los que reciben un encargo se les exige que demuestren ser dignos de confianza. I Corintios 4:1-2 (NVI)
The first commision
The first commission: Go, sell, give and follow
The Final Great Commission of Jesus (Matthew 28:16-20) was preceded by this First Commission of Jesus in Matthew 19:21 - Go, Sell, Give & Follow. This instruction followed the all-important question, “What must I do to be saved?”
La primera comisión
La Primera Comisión: Anda, Vende, Da, y Sigue
La Gran Comisión Final De Jesús (Mateo 28:16-20) fue precedida por la Primera Comisión de Jesús en Mateo 19:21 - Anda, vende, da, y sigue. Esta instrucción siguió a la pregunta más importante, “¿Qué tengo que hacer para ser salvo?”
Financial Resources
Education and services
For pastors and leaders
Clergy taxes: Everence can guide pastors in regards to housing allowance, compensation and fringe benefits, business and professional expenses, and income and Social Security taxes.
Pastor and staff benefits: Everence partners with denominations and networks to offer important benefits to support their valued pastors and staff. Retirement, health and other employee benefit plans are available,
Trusted financial professionals: Our financial professionals understand your unique needs as a pastor and work with many of your peers to become more financially stable and plan for the future.
For churches
Stewardship education: To support this planning effort, Everence offers a range of workshops, webinars and educational events to inspire and train pastors and lay leaders. Plus, we create and vet many resources for individual and group use.
Congregational services: Everence connects and supports churches in many ways, supporting with financial resources, charitable giving assistance and more.
Congregational Stewardship Resource Manual: A source of ways to organize your stewardship ministry team, church budgeting aids, sample church finance policies and more.
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Christian stewardship encompasses all we are and all we have. This theology of holistic stewardship, of aligning our lives with God’s purposes, is embraced by Everence. At the same time, our work focuses on helping churches, individuals and organizations practice stewardship of financial resources.
