John Sherlock's presentation on Stewardship

1. Finance
for our Local Church
Church of the Good Shepherd
3 February 2013

2. Stewardship ?

3. Money ‘represents’ us
“What we do with our money proclaims who we think
we are – whether we know it or not, whether we like it
or not.
All our actions in some degree reveal us; why should
our economic life be different?
Why should this too not be an area in which we help to
shape our eternal destiny, a matter of sin or holiness?”
Archbishop Rowan Williams

4. My Task
• Help our local churches elicit
£32 million annually
from the good people of Sussex
• About £60 a minute
• £1 per household per week would do it!

5. Diocese of Chichester – 2013
£15m planned £14m parish
giving contributions
£3m dioc. income
£17m
Local churches
in Sussex diocesan
£3m appeals
£13m personnel administered
funds £1m to NCIs*
£32m turnover
£2m legacies £1m insurance
369 parishes
*NCIs are the National
£2m support servs Church Institutions.
This amount includes
524 churches Chichester’s subsidy of other
£3m tax back dioceses.
360 other
properties All amounts rounded to
nearest £1m – some up,
some down
£9m other
£16m locally administered
£25m
RECURRING
£7m £2m given away
OTHER
£32m TOTAL
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6. Different motivators
WORSHIPPING SHARING OUR
TOGETHER FAITH & VALUES
VALUING SERVING THE
THE BUILDINGS COMMUNITY

7. Knowing God

8. Diocese of Chichester – 2013
£15m planned £14m parish
giving contributions
£3m dioc. income
£17m
Local churches
in Sussex diocesan
£3m appeals
£13m personnel administered
funds £1m to NCIs*
£32m turnover
£2m legacies £1m insurance
369 parishes
*NCIs are the National
£2m support servs Church Institutions.
This amount includes
524 churches Chichester’s subsidy of other
£3m tax back dioceses.
360 other
properties All amounts rounded to
nearest £1m – some up,
some down
£9m other
£16m locally administered
£25m
RECURRING
£7m £2m given away
OTHER
£32m TOTAL
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9. www.chichester.anglican.org/pips

10. Engagement and efficiency
% of households engaged by church
x % contributing
x
amount given
x
= £
efficiency

11. Efficiency

12. A way of seeing things …
How much?
• It’s all GOD’s
• How much of it do I need to operate?

13. ENCOURAGEMENT !

14. YOU are
• one of 2.1 billion Christians worldwide
– united by Baptism
• Part of the Church of England
– over 13,000 parishes
• One of a million
C of E worshippers on Sunday
– About 1.7 million each month

15. The Church of England …
• Looks after 16,200 church buildings
– and 43 cathedrals
• Each year, parishes GIVE
– to causes outside the C of E
MORE than BBC Children in Need
• About 1 million pupils are educated
– In 4,700 C of E schools

16. Share of UK giving….
One pound in every £20
given to charity in the UK is
given to the Church of England
One pound in every £10
paid out by HMRC through
Gift Aid comes to
the Church of England

17. You are not alone !
www.chichester.anglican.org/money
john.sherlock@chichester.anglican.org