Generosity Resources 

The Wisconsin Conference provides support and resources for both individual donors and for congregations.  

What you’ll find here: 

• Generosity Resources – resources for congregational leaders that includes educational opportunities, help with annual campaigns, suggestions for education and worship about generosity in your local congregation, and best practices for leaders. 

Generosity Webinars for 2026

Click here to view webinar schedule

2026 Winter Bequest Campaign Toolkit

We’re providing a toolkit to help you promote planned giving in your congregation. It includes templates for an email, follow-up email, newsletter/bulletin insert, social media post, and pulpit announcement that you can personalize for your congregation. Click here for the toolkit.

To boost the performance of this outreach:

• Include a header image.
• Include an image on social media.
• Include a picture of a staff member in the email signature to make it personable

Invitation to Explore Generosity

We invite you and your ministry team to participate in a seminar experience that could change the way you and your congregation approach giving and generosity. Cultivating Generous Congregations (CGC) is an interactive seminar demonstrating how pastors and leaders can unearth and energize congregational generosity by exploring the significant and necessary steps to creating lasting cultural change within a congregation.

Interactive segments of CGC explore theology, the role of adaptive leadership, fiscal transparency and the importance of donor care, with action steps to impact the generosity exploration and experience for both laity and clergy.

Click here to read the flyer.
Click here for more info and to register.

Worship Ways – Elements for a Service about Generosity

This service to celebrate Generosity can be adapted to fit many different local congregations as you celebrate generosity. The service is available here.  

Lay Testimonials

Testimonials by lay leaders help people in our congregations imagine what it would mean for them to become more generous. We encourage you to regularly include testimonials in your worship services and to make video testimonials available on your website and through social media.   

• Directions on Testimonials are available here
• Example of Video Testimonials from First Congregational, Manhattan, Kansas, available at this YouTube link
• You may also find this video helpful as you plan out a testimonial

Sermons 

“The Rhythm of Generosity” by Andrew Warner available at Sermon – The Rhythm of Generosity 

Generosity News