by Michael Durall
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Asking parishioners for money is very different from creating congregations of generous people. In this provocative book, stewardship consultant Michael Durall argues convincingly that annual pledge drives inadvertently perpetuate low-level and same-level giving in congregations. Written with the voice of experience, this book will help clergy and lay leaders initiate and sustain effective stewardship programs. Durall believes that asking for money eventually becomes routine, even tedious-but creating a congregation of generous people becomes ever more meaningful with passing time.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Inspirational !, 2007-10-19
A year ago I told our minister that if I didn't have to chair the canvass that time around, I'd work on the committee and then chair it next year. Well, "next year" just rolled around and I have to say, I was feeling like a wild animal trapped in a cage. Then the minister put this book into my hands, and reluctance turned to enthusiasm. The book reframes generosity as a spiritual value and places the "annual member canvass" into a long-term context of stewardship. I have been a Unitarian Universalist for 30 years now and have worked on many canvasses, but this book replaces the tedious and materialistic concepts of fundraising with vision, values, and enthusiastic service. Lemme at 'em!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
This book changes people's lives, 2005-12-05
I have been deeply involved with church fundraising for about 10 years and have read all sorts of books on this topic during that time. There is nothing I have read that fills the niche Durall's book does. It is simultaneously practical and philosophical, and it permanently changed my personal relationship to money and to the spiritual practice of generosity. For anyone interested in fundraising for religious purposes, I believe it is so important to read that I now buy multiple copies and give them away to people. This is truly an inspiring, one-of-a-kind book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Creating Congregations of Generous People, 2000-05-16
I ordered a copy of Michael Durell's book for a quick peruse to see if there were ideas I could inject into our congregation's upcoming canvass. After a first read, I ordered four more copies the next day, and handed them around to the Canvass Committee members. Michael lays out a renewed vision of generosity with which to appraoch the perennial problem of raising the church budget fromthe faithful. His observation that this process is no less about growing souls than any other area part of church life, and that the object is to cultivate a generous spirit, sat well with my congregation this year. We used his book in our planning and our process. The result? The book was a part of a positive canvass, pledges are up and people are feeling good about their generous participation in the life of the congregation.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
ITS THE PEOPLE AS MUCH AS THE MONEY, 2000-05-02
Mike Durall's slim but succulent guide to increasing and stimulating congregational giving is a welcome tonic when fundraising bibles seem to focus more on technique and need than motivation and virtue. Durall encourages us to aim to create congregations of generous people not as a ruse to open wallets but because - as he illustrates and explains well - only generous people in spirit and ethos will ever fill the plate. And it is more than his homespun wisdom as supported by his distilation of current reasearch and thinking from leaders in the field. Durall's emphasis on giving as the sharing of gifts with which we have been blessed is inspirational as well as practical. Give a copy to your minister as well as to every fundraiser you know!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Creating Congregations of Generous People, 2000-05-01
We are encountering change in every walk of life. Why not in the church stewardship program? Unique insight and a step-by-step process to generate a passion for giving. It is progressive look at effective fundraising in a church setting.
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