The Generosity Project Finds a New Home
The Generosity Project has a new online home—and the Grand Canyon Synod celebrates this next chapter for a ministry that continues to help congregations cultivate generosity, discipleship, and faith across generations. Explore The Generosity Project.
The newly updated Generosity Project website is now available through Kindling Faith, bringing together resources, stories, curriculum, and practical ideas for congregations and households seeking to make generosity a year-round faith practice.
For several years, the Grand Canyon Synod Stewardship Team helped provide an online home for The Generosity Project and its resources. As the project moves into its new home, we offer particular thanks to Linda Staats, a member of our Grand Canyon Synod and one of the original creators and longtime champions of The Generosity Project. Linda’s passion, creativity, and commitment have helped this ministry grow from an idea into a resource used across the ELCA.
The Generosity Project began through an ELCA Macedonia Project grant in 2011, when staff from the Rocky Mountain Synod collaborated to develop a new approach to stewardship. From the beginning, the goal was larger than fundraising: to connect generations, equip people of every age and household to practice generosity, and help God’s people grow in grace together.
That vision remains at the heart of the project today.
The Generosity Project offers a flexible, cross-generational approach that congregations can adapt for Sunday school, confirmation, Vacation Bible School, family camp, small groups, household activities, worship, stewardship emphases, retreats, and other settings. Its resources bring generations together around Scripture, conversation, storytelling, creativity, prayer, and the practice of generosity.
And congregations continue to find new uses for it. The project is currently being used in several ELCA synods and congregations, with communities adapting its framework for stewardship campaigns, capital campaigns, congregational gatherings, and other ministries. New stories and resources will continue to be added to the website.
For Lutherans, generosity is ultimately a response to grace. We give, serve, share, and care for our neighbors not to earn God’s favor, but because God’s abundant grace has already been freely given to us in Christ. The Generosity Project helps communities explore what that grace-filled life can look like—not just during an annual stewardship campaign, but from generation to generation.
We give thanks to Linda, to the Grand Canyon Synod Stewardship Team, and to everyone who has nurtured this ministry along the way. Most of all, we celebrate that the work continues.
Visit the new site, explore the resources, and consider how The Generosity Project might kindle conversations about generosity in your congregation or household.
