Mennonite Church
Eastern Canada
Three leaders from each MC Eastern Canada congregation are being invited to a series of dinners in May of this year to learn more about the Generosity Project.
The dinners are based on the cluster structure, and a member of the pastoral team, the congregational chair and a member of the finance commission of each congregation are invited to share the challenges and successes which they are experiencing in creating communities of faithful generosity.
This is an opportunity for the area church to hear from the congregations, and the congregations to hear from each other. This event is strictly to glean the wisdom of congregational leaders and to have their input in framing the focus of a church-wide consultation on Oct.27.
Executive minister David Martin has begun this project as many congregations struggle each year to achieve their giving goals and are experiencing reductions in ministry capacity. The long-term health of MC Eastern Canada's community of congregations depends on a membership that is grounded in a spirituality of generosity and is committed to the mission of Christ's church with their time, service, prayers and money.
The consultations' purposes include: discerning the challenges and opportunities of cultivating a spirituality of generosity; developing strategic stewardship initiatives that respond to the challenges and opportunities identified by the consultation; determining what resources are needed to support pastors and congregational leaders in implementing stewardship initiatives aimed at cultivating generous congregations; and devising a series of generosity benchmarks that provide objective criteria to assist congregations to assess their giving trends.
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