Generosity

This series of 8 studies by the Cof E Director of Giving, Jonathan de Bernhardt Wood, are great for use in small groups or individual study to help you explore the generosity of God and discover the freedom of living generously.

Generosity week is a week focussed on generosity, aiming to encourage and inspire, and nurture a culture of generosity in the church. This link contains all the resources you need to run a generosity week in your church including a week of podcasts with moving and inspiring stories of generosity, reflections, activities and resources for a service at the beginning and end of the week.

FIKA is a Swedish term meaning to gather together for sharing, discussion and cake! It is a half day programme, for groups to explore God's generosity to us, biblical generosity and generosity around the world. Through short films, reflections and discussion we can be inspired and encouraged to live more generous lives. FIKAs can be an enormously effective way of developing a generous culture within your church.

Here you will find some excellent resources to help you encourage generosity as discipleship in your church. There are resources for individual and group bible study, preaching and retreats or focus days.

The Parish Funding Programme works well with most sizes of church. It is strong at helping develop and communicate a church’s vision, and encouraging church members to support that vision

The Simple Giving Programme for Smaller Churches is just that – a stripped down programme, particularly designed for smaller or rural/village churches.

Giving in Grace is a great tool, particularly for medium and larger churches. It has loads of excellent resources for preaching, for all-age services, for youth etc

Encouraging generosity in your church – advice and resources from the C of E

A new short animation to help you encourage generosity in your church.

Video resources about 'what does Generosity mean to you?' from the Truro Diocese Youtube channel.