Stewardship Brochure

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Oct. 26,2022
Dear Congregational leaders and Pastors,
 
You are or will be gathering soon to consider your congregation’s budget for 2023. As you meet, we encourage you to join in a conversation with each other, using the attached materials to guide you, about your congregation’s Mission Support. Mission Support is the money that you send from your congregation to the Montana Synod that allows us to participate together in the ministry of the Gospel, and to equip all of us to build up the body of Christ and to live Christ’s love into the world. (Take a look at the attachments of the income and support for ministry that the Montana Synod received and shared in 2021.)
 
Each year, we in the Synod office ask you to make a commitment (in your budget and on the Statement of Intent Form) of how you all will participate in the ministry of the whole church. Thank you so much for all the ways in which your congregation has shared in that support over the years. And thank you in advance for the ways in which you will continue to share in extending and sharing Gospel love beyond your congregation! Together, we do so much to spread the message of God’s grace and love with the world! Please know that we continue to pray for you and your congregation’s ministry of good news in your location! And we give thanks for the ways in which, together, the Montana Synod is blessed to bless others, as well as be a blessing to the whole ELCA! We encourage you to reflect with faith in our generous God as you consider your mission support for 2023. And would you consider an increase in your mission support in the coming year? If you are a congregation who has given the same amount for Mission Support for several years, could you consider increasing that amount by an amount that speaks to the generosity of God and your grateful response?  
 
We ask that you please consider your Mission Support with prayer and in trust in the God who sustains and saves you. May this process encourage you so that you may encourage one another in remembering God’s generosity and sustaining grace. God has called us to be church together, and what we do together with our giving as individuals, congregations, Synod and ELCA matter greatly for the sake of the world. Thank you for your prayerful deliberation about your generous support of the Montana Synod and the whole church. And thank you for your leadership and vision for the sake of life-changing relationships with God, one another, and the world!
 
Yours in Christ,
                             
Pastor Laurie Jungling                                                     Pastor Peggy Paugh Leuzinger

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Mission Support Downloads for your congregation!

Letter from Bishop Jungling and DEM Peggy Paugh Leuzinger

Synod Expense Pie Chart

Designated Giving Pie Chart

Definition of Terms for Stewardship

Stewardship Devotion

Synod Ministries List

Statement of Intent

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