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1. |
What percent of total parish income toward the operating budget comes
from the personal giving of parishioners? (include stewardship, dues,
candles, tray, memorial gifts, festal gifts - do not include income
from banquets, dances, raffles, event-type fund raising, rentals,
leasing, tuition, endowments, etc). |
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2. |
How
many pledging or membership households are there in the parish? |
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3. |
How
many additional households are served? |
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4. |
What
is the average pledge? |
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5. |
Approximately
how many families or individuals pledge $1000 or more per year? |
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6. |
How
many pledge $5000 or more per year? |
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7. |
What
term is primarily used to identify annual giving in the parish? (choose
one: stewardship, pledges, dues, membership, etc.) |
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8. |
Every year the parish council or a committee of the parish council
prepares a proposed operating budget for the upcoming year. |
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9. |
The
general parish membership reviews the operating budget and formally
votes to approve the budget. |
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10. |
Parish council members generally accept and practice the biblical
principle that leadership responsibility includes generous, proportionate
and sacrificial giving. |
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11. |
The
priest preaches the vital necessity of good stewardship as essential
to Orthodox Christian life. |
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12. |
The
priest is directly involved in the stewardship effort each year. |
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13. |
There is a standing stewardship committee. |
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14. |
The
parish invests in the training of stewardship committee members to
increase their effectiveness. |
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15. |
The
priest and the stewardship committee have confidential access to giving
records of members. |
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16. |
The
giving of individual parishioner families is posted as a matter of
public record. |
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17. |
Every
year financial statements are sent to parishioners reporting their
giving and requesting a payment on the pledge. |
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18. |
At
the conclusion of each year, those parishioners who have not yet honored
their annual commitment are personally contacted by phone. |
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19. |
A
percentage of parishioners are visited personally each year either
by phone or by individual meetings concerning their stewardship commitment. |
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20. |
How
many families are personally visited on average each year? |
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21. |
Honestly
speaking, our stewardship program consists in little more than a general
mailing to the families of the parish, which includes a pledge card
and a cover letter. Then a drive begins to collect the cards. |
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22. |
Every
year the parish receives a number of “special gifts” above
and beyond stewardship of $5,000 or more. |
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23. |
The
parish has an ongoing major gifts program – intentional, visible
and managed by the priest and volunteers. |
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24. |
The
parish has an endowment program. |
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25. |
The
pledge effort is undertaken in the Fall for the upcoming year. |
if no when:
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26. |
What do you feel are the three greatest challenges to growing your
stewardship giving? |
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