Congregational Stewardship and Finance Survey

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The C/SIS Mission Support and Stewardship Committee would like to better serve and strengthen our synod congregations for ministry. Thank you for your assistance by filling out this survey. We expect it to take you about five minutes.

Congregation City, Name
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Your role in the congregation:
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Council member

Stewardship team

Pastor

Office staff

Other:

How are you currently collecting offerings during worship services?

We pass the plate down the rows during worship.

Ushers alone hold the plate to collect offerings during worship.

The offering plate is located at the front or the rear of the sanctuary.

Other:

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Does your congregation provide offering envelopes to members to assist with their regular giving?

We make boxes of preprinted envelopes available at church.

Envelopes are directly mailed to members once a year.

Envelopes are directly mailed to members at least quarterly.

We make our own preprinted and numbered envelopes.

We do not provide preprinted and numbered envelopes.

Other:

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Our congregation offers electronic giving options. Check all that apply.

ACH/automated bank transfer

On our church website

Phone app

Text to give

Card Reader

Electronic giving vendor tithe.ly

Electronic giving vendor Give Plus/Vanco

A different electronic vendor such as PayPal, Venmo, etc.

Recurring gifts, but members must ask someone to adjust gift amount or frequency

Recurring gifts, and users can set up and adjust gift amount or frequency

We do not offer any electronic giving options

Other:

We have an annual stewardship emphasis and/or appeal.

Yes

No, and to the best of my knowledge never have.

We used to, but stopped because (submit answer in "other")

Other:

To the best of your knowledge, has your congregation participated in a stewardship education program or workshop in the last ten years?

Yes

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Do you think people in your congregation would be interested in (check all that apply)

A stewardship workshop

A guided stewardship appeal

Best financial practices for congregations

A personal finance course for members offered through our committee

A personal finance course your congregation could offer to your neighborhood community

Other:

Check any that apply:

We feel confident about our financial position.

We worry about our financial resources.

We are more worried about financial resources now than before the pandemic.

We worry about our long-term sustainability at more than half of our council meetings.

We would like to do more ministry, but feel constrained by financial resources.

We would like to do more ministry, but our building expenses constrain us.

Our financial situation has been relatively stable through the pandemic.

We don't talk about money, and it hinders our minsitry.

We don't talk about money, and we are doing just fine.

We only talk about money when we don't have enough.

Other:

Have you searched for stewardship resources on our synod website?

Yes, I searched but couldn't find any.

Yes, and I found something helpful.

Yes, but I didn't find the right resource to help me.

Other:

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What resources, stewardship or otherwise, do you think would equip your congregation to do the ministry you feel God calling you to?

Were you aware that the Central/Southern Illinois Synod has a Stewardship Education Committee whose purpose is to equip congregations in their stewardship ministry?

Yes

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What would you like the C/SIS Mission Support and Stewardship Education Committee to know about congregational ministry and stewardship in your context?

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