Stewardship & Giving Resources
God given guidance for your financial blessing.
| That’s Real Money A well-known politician is often quoted for his comment that in government, it’s just a million here and a million there and pretty soon it adds up to real money. Just like our friends in Washington, but on a smaller scale, we often throw our spare change in jars, bowls, drawers, or whatever might be handy on a regular basis. And at some point, it becomes real money. The average person can accumulate up to $50 or so every few months. $150-$200 |
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| What about Your Phone? Call waiting and call forwarding on your telephone – doesn’t seem like much but can add up and is an easy target to find a few dollars to give. $5/month = $60 |
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| Eating out For a typical family, dining out one less time per month for lunch or dinner … could save an average of $25.00 per month - $300/year. What about the latte at Starbucks? $3/wk = $150/yr |
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| Give God a Raise The latest survey of FBC members revealed that our giving is averaging about 3.5% of income. Many of us would like to increase our annual percentage but find ourselves on a financial treadmill created months and years earlier by lifestyle choices and debt obligations not to mention the unanticipated needs that seem to show up at the worst times. Some people have the ability to decide that they are going to increase their giving by a significant amount and, as the Nike people say, “Just Do It”. If you are in this kind of a position, why wait? Just do it... But many of us don’t have the ability to make an immediate change in our budgets because our incomes rise gradually through raises and bonuses. Why not take the next 7% increase or bonus and direct half of it to the giving side of the budget? This one step will double the giving share of most budgets and still allow for lifestyle improvements! Do this for two or three years, and you might find yourself in the 10% giving bracket wondering why you weren’t doing this before... Considering what most of us have done this year compared with what God has done, who should get the raise? |
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| Make Every Day Grandparents’ Day! Every one of us would consider it a good investment to support the church that our children and grandchildren will be attending. If we only knew which church body would be equipping them to impact their arenas of influence, which church body would be influencing their walk with the Lord. Well, since our membership is so young, most of us don’t even know if we’ll even have any grandchildren, much less whether they will be part of any church body. If only we could see into the future... But here is where it gets interesting… There are some people who are now in that future. They aren’t us. They are our parents and grandparents. They can see their children and grandchildren being spiritually fed, trained, equipped, encouraged, educated right here at Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell, Georgia. For them, here is an investment in their children and grandchildren for sure. No guesses. Why not ask them to give to FBC versus giving to you? |
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| What kind of Company is Acme Life Anyway? Remember that good size life insurance policy your parents took out back when you didn’t even have your drivers’ license? Some life insurance agent told them that they needed to “protect your insurability.” Problem is that they also thought that a $5,000 policy was a big deal. By now it probably seems about as big as the old letter sweater you wore in high school. But even old life insurance policies have their good points. For one thing, there is a cash value. This might just be the perfect asset to give. In fact, depending on your age, the cash value might be equal to as much as half of the death benefit. So dust off those old policies and tell mom and dad that you found a way to collect on your life insurance and live to tell about it! Not only can you tell about it, you can even get a tax deduction. |
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| We Can All Be Givers... Take a look at these figures and see how much you could be recouping to give.
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