One Spirit, Many Gifts Campaign at St. John the Baptist New Brighton

One Spirit, Many Gifts Campaign

atSt. John the

Baptist New Brighton

One Spirit, Many Gifts

Steps toward a good long-term renewable Stewardship Program:

Understand Catholic Stewardship

Know your parish

Take the “long view”


We Did the Campaign Ourselves

The “What” and “Why” Of It


Who We Are at

St. John’s in New

Brighton

We have a duty to educate and challenge our parishioners.

“… the diocesan or parish stewardship committee should have the responsibility to make sure that all leadership development and fund-raising efforts are consistent with, and reinforce, the theology and practice of stewardship as outlined in the pastoral letter and this manual” (Stewardship, A Disciple’s Response – page 52).


Step 1 – Understanding Catholic Stewardship –

“Stewardship – A Disciple’s Response”

Seeking pledges in 5 areas of Stewardship:

Pledge to Prayer Pledge to Service Sunday Giving Capital Giving Planned Giving


Step 1 – Understanding Catholic Stewardship –

“Stewardship – A Disciple’s Response”

History of campaigns at St. John’s:

Capital Campaigns – 4 previous capital campaigns

Sunday Giving Campaigns – several annual Sunday giving campaigns


Step 2 – Know Your Parish and Turn that Knowledge into an Effective Program

The Pastor

The Co-Chairs

Bright, energetic, and motivated

Love the Catholic church and love

St. John’s


Securing the RightLeadership

Create campaigns based on key parish demographics.

1. Seniors Head of household age 65 and

older2. School Families

Families with children in the school

3. Major Donors Combining Sunday Giving and

Capital Giving Who had given the most over the

last four CC’s and the last two years of Sunday Giving?


Identifying “Affinity Groups”

4. Contributors Parishioners who have a

consistent record of financial giving

5. Sustainers Parishioners who gave in any

amount to all 4 prior Capital Campaigns

6. St. John’s at Large No record of giving financially (or

very small amounts given), not a school family, not a Senior, and no known involvement in ministry


Identifying “Affinity Groups”

Case statement document

Campaign video – Mike Loftus

PowerPoint for the meetings that lays out the case for pledging in a consistent way

Commitment packet that includes a

pledge form


Basic Tools

Very positive feedback from the parish.

We met our “realistic goal” and stopped the 10-year decline in Capital Giving.

We met our Sunday Giving goal.

We have a better sense of non-financial involvement in our parish through pledges made to prayer and personal service.

We went from less than 10 families we knew who had pledged to include St. John’s in their estate planning to 67.


Outcomes

Between the campaign co-chair and the affinity group leaders, we developed a broad base of leadership and we were able to take advantage of different campaign ideas that were shared among leaders.

We have a solid platform for ongoing renewals of One Spirit, Many Gifts into the future.


Outcomes

Understand Catholic Stewardship

Know your parish

Take the “long view”


Steps Toward a Good Long-Term Renewable

Stewardship Program

One Spirit, Many Gifts Campaign at St. John the Baptist New Brighton

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