revealed 30 July 2024
The Church of Scotland is delighted to be partnering once more this autumn with Christian Help and different communities throughout the UK to encourage church members and supporters to contemplate items in Wills to their church and Christian Help as a robust and tangible expression of their religion.
Discover out extra about our Items in Wills right here:
Belief Wills gives sensible instruments for congregations to focus on the influence of items of wills within the lives of our congregations and our companion group, Christian Help.
In 2023 virtually a 3rd of Church of Scotland congregations benefited from legacy items. This permits us to make a larger influence in our communities and reside out the beliefs and values of our donors.
Rt Rev Dr Shaw J Patterson, Moderator of the Basic Meeting of the Church of Scotland, stated: “I do know from my very own expertise in parishes that bequest items can assist help work that might not in any other case be potential.
“I’d encourage church buildings to interact with the need of religion and share this message of faith-inspired giving with confidence.”
Religion Will is a three way partnership with Christian Help, involving the Church of Scotland, Church of England, United Reformed Church and Quakers in Britain.
Over 200 church buildings throughout the UK signed as much as obtain the Religion Will useful resource final 12 months. The goal by 2024 is to double this quantity – serving to to make a distinction in additional communities right here within the UK and all over the world.
This 12 months’s assets embrace movies, worship starters, posters and leaflets, offering church buildings with a variety of choices to swimsuit each context. You may maintain a ‘second’ of religion throughout a service, present brief movies throughout espresso fellowship, embrace a brief article in a e-newsletter, or flow into Religion Will leaflets.
To entry Religion Will assets, go to the Religion Will web page on Christian Help’s web site.
For extra data, contact the Church of Scotland’s Stewardship Workforce at stewardship@churchofscotland.org.uk
