Building Campaigns
Church Growth Services offers a distinctive strategy called Stewardship of Life, which lays the foundation for ongoing stewardship development. In 50 years of ministry, Church Growth Services has discovered that while fund raising builds facilities, total stewardship commitment builds people and ministry. For this very reason, each campaign gives opportunity for a total-life commitment. It is imperative that congregants step beyond their former habits and "comfort zones" to embrace servanthood rather than materialism and consumerism.
Each step of your campaign is designed to help accomplish the goal of sacrifice. Click through the steps below to see how CGS might work for you.
Conducting a Pre-Campaign Assessment
Developing congregational ownership
Each leader must understand their unique role on the team. Team meetings to discuss goals and strategies are essential to thoroughly prepare for a campaign.
Church Growth Services helps your leaders develop congregational ownership by:
- Conducting personal interviews and focus groups and interpreting responses.
- Helping you process information in small groups with your constituents.
- Advising you on appropriate agenda for presentations to various leadership groups and the total congregation.
Your congregation will sacrificially support that which they own. One of the greatest mistakes church leaders make is assuming that the majority of constituents own the project to the same extent that they do.
Implementing the campaign strategy
Focus on the goal, through implementation of strategies established with the consultants, will assure success. When you implement Stewardship of Life for your campaign, you'll discover the value of our five decades of experience coaching hundreds of churches.
The CGS approach offers the flexibility to tailor your campaign specifically to your church. We will:
- Provide the model and organizational structure for your campaign team with job descriptions for all volunteers.
- Establish a timeline to complete your campaign successfully.
- Create training manuals and educational resources you need to conduct your campaign.
- Train people how to ask prayerfully in ways that are non-threatening.
- Help you incorporate an emphasis on spiritual giftedness, encouraging the commitment of time and abilities along with financial resources.
Developing healthy stewardship habits in your church is a team effort. The right consultant can make all the difference.
Celebrating the results
After all the hard work of planning for your campaign, nothing is more exhilarating than announcing your results on Celebration Sunday!
Church Growth Services is there to:
- Help interpret campaign results.
- Provide guidance for reporting to the congregation.
- Help you plan appropriate ways to celebrate results.
Assessing performance | Guiding the future
For Church Growth Services, your Celebration Sunday is not the end, but only the beginning of a three-year continuing relationship. Church Growth Services consultants provide comprehensive direction for each phase of the stewardship development process, especially after your campaign commitments are received.
Following the collection of commitments, Church Growth Services consultants continue to serve you by:
- Recommending ways to engage your volunteers in meaningful service.
- Developing a detailed eight-year cash management budget.
- Evaluating results and formulating specific recommendations.
- Tracking your progress toward achieving your goals.
- Providing unlimited availability via toll free telephone consulting support.
- Responding to your further on-site consulting needs.
- Engaging new constituents to participate in the campaign.
- Establishing a base for continuing stewardship development.
