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Suggestions for Encouraging Planned Gifts in the Local Church

It is suggested that a permanent committee meet periodically to be sure the church is being intentional about planned giving. A report semi-annually to the Session will also be helpful. That committee can create a year long calendar to spread out and pace as many as possible of those suggestions from below which fit a particular church.

The Art of Tithing Halloween Candy

When Mamie Broadhurst, pastor at First United Church in Oak Park, Illinois, was brainstorming ideas to teach the concepts of tithing and stewardship to the children, she remembered something Second Presbyterian in Nashville had done when she was a Young Adult Volunteer there a few years earlier. Kids were asked to bring to church, the Sunday after Halloween, a tithe of their Halloween candy. It was a way to get families talking about stewardship, and a way that children could learn about tithing and how we usually want to hold on to our possessions.

The Money in the Milk Can: The Purposes and Uses of Church Endowments
Barbara G. Wheeler