About the Center for Faith and Giving

The Center for Faith and Giving exists to create a culture of
generosity across the life of the whole church.
Our Mission is to encourage and promote the understanding of stewardship
as a faith discipline and life practice in response to a generous God.

Christian stewardship is grateful and responsible use of God's gifts in the light of God's purpose as revealed in Jesus Christ. Christian stewards, empowered by the Holy Spirit, commit themselves to conscious, purposeful decisions.Stewardship is lived out in:

  • living and telling the Good News
  • sharing God in seeking justice, peace, and the integrity of creation in an interdependent universe
  • wisely employing God-given human resources, abilities, and relationships
  • sharing the material resources we hold and giving them in service, justice, and compassion
  • providing for future generations
  • sharing in the life, worship, and responsible stewardship of the Church and of its mission
  • both for the individual and for the community, stewardship is a joyful act for the sake of God's world.
The Center for Faith and Giving Academy

Faith and Giving Class Begins

Congratulations to our first class of Academy Partners who have been accepted into the Faith and Giving Academy.  This course of study is being offered in partnership with Lexington Theological Seminary as a part of their Life Ministry Choices Institute.  Together, the Center for Faith and Giving and Lexington Theological Seminary hope to produce a cadre of pastors and lay persons who are equipped to teach and encourage the practice of generosity across the life of the church.  Academy participants who successfully  complete the three courses in the series will be recommend to Regions as people prepared to talk about stewardship as a spiritual discipline and who can aid congregations in developing best practices that foster generous communities of faith.  These individuals will be leaders not simply because of the education they have received, but also by their personal practice of stewardship as a response to a generous God who provides abundantly for the whole of creation. 

Members of this first class include: Tammy Anderson (ID); Diane Bales (GA); Jill Caermon-Michel (MO); Patrick Chandler (GA); Liz DeWeese (OH); Erin Donnell (ID); Bill Jennison (WA); Dale Langford (ID); Gregory Leichliter (ID); Shannon Leichliter (ID); Kara Markell (WA); MaryAnn Richardson (FL); and Laura Savage (LA). 

If you are interested in the Faith and Giving Academy, contact us.

Director of the Center for Faith and Giving, Reverend Bruce A. Barkhauer offers a video welcome to the website and offers both a tour and an invitation for you to share your thoughts and ideas to build this site as a resource for the whole church. View Video

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The Center for Faith and Giving publishes four newsletters annually.

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Stewardship is NOT fundraising!
It is a faith discipline equal in value and importance
to that of worship, prayer, study, and service.
 
Stewardship is a "whole life" issue that deals with
how to respond to a Loving God who has, in abundance,
provided all that we need not only to survive, but to thrive.

 

You can contribute to the success of our mission!  Your generosity can be contagious and your gifts can help us spread the culture of generosity throughout our lives as the Disciples of Christ.  Designated gifts can be made to the Center for Faith and Giving Academy, which supports that unique ministry of "teaching teachers how  to teach stewardship", thus growing our capacity as a resource center to Regions and congregations.  You can become an Ambassador of the Center for Faith and Giving through an designated partnership gift.  Ambassadors receive special offers, gifts, and news from the Center for Faith and Giving.  Ambassadors of the Center help "fill in the gap" that exists between funding from Disciples Mission Fund and the financial resources necessary to support this ministry.

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Food For Thought:

"A heart filled with gratitude has little room to covet the blessings of others and no place for the fear of scarcity to take root."

--  Bruce A. Barkhauer

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