Growing Generous Givers Workshop Notes

Held 29 Aug 2009 at GWUC

Wiki Tutorial

JohnHurst gave a brief introduction to this wiki.

The Mission Presentation

Carolyn Kitto worked us through the 4-point mission focus presentation, revising the key paragraphs and 'in the next 6 months we will ...' statements. The revised presentation is now online at Glen Waverley Uniting Church groups gathering.pdf, or, if you prefer the original powerpoint presentation as uploaded by Carolyn, Glen Waverley Uniting Church groups gathering.pdf.

Community Outreach

see presentation

Community Hub

JohnHurst: the 6 months' goals seem a little passive?

Community of Faith

see presentation

Inclusive Community

see presentation (gather as a community for events like ... "and other pet projects ..." - "such as the Blessing of the Animals" GregFry)

whole church gatherings need to be at times different from any particular worship time, so that the impression of substituting for regular gatherings is avoided.

Budget

RogerVass then talked us through the budget spreadsheet.

A key point is the distribution of O:H:I:F across the staff positions, and the fact that these are (at this stage) guesstimates. We would expect that these will be revised in the light of experience. They would also be an accountability indicator ("soft KPIs" to use Carolyn's term) for the ministry team.

Total putative fractional distribution for (FT) ministry team is 0.3 : 0.15 : 0.15 : 0.40 for O:H:I:F

Team to develop and discuss budget distribution: GregFry MarkEaston RogerVass JohnHurst HelenBoucher AlaneeHearnshaw. Meeting next Saturday, 5 Sep at 10am at the Church.

New spreadsheet being developed by RogerVass, including 3MoW, 0.5 C&F, 0.375 Seniors

Note 1: thank you cards printed with a photo of the mural, with writing inside "Dear Fred and Joan, thank you ... (signed) IanMcMillan". Ian signs these each week of the campaign, they are placed on the letter rack, those not collected are posted the following week.

When offering people the invitations, use global target "My Total Gift $_", then with multiple boxes, labelled by target, fill in amount. What are the boxes? Different targets: As needed (general revenue), 4 x OTWT groups, Youth, Mission and Service, ... This will need some additional bookkeeping. Pledge against 5 staff allocation.

Note that not all groups get the same options.

Make distinction between regular giving and long term appeals, say 3years.

Sources of Income