Lord, help us renew our faith, strengthen our parish, and sustain the mission we share. May our commitment reflect our gratitude for all You have given us. Amen.
Resources, templates, and materials you need to promote offertory giving this fall.
Faith Renewed - Mission Sustained is our fall offertory program created to help you talk with your parishioners about giving in a way that feels positive, pastoral, and connected to the life of the parish.
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The program is built around three focused weekends, each helping parishioners connect offertory giving with the life and mission of the parish:
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Mission Weekend: Helps parishioners reconnect with why the parish matters, how its ministries change lives, and how their support helps sustain worship, outreach, formation, service, and community.
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Renewal Weekend: Invites each household to reflect on its personal commitment and consider how their offertory support can help sustain parish life in a steady and meaningful way.
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Gratitude Weekend: Gives the parish a chance to thank parishioners for their generosity, service, prayer, participation, and commitment to the shared mission of the parish.​
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A focused fall offertory effort can help strengthen giving, support your parish budget, and create more steady support for the ministries that bring your parish to life. With simple follow-up throughout the year, especially around gratitude, this program can also help build a stronger culture of engagement, appreciation, and generosity.
Text-Based Communications
These resources include the text-based communication pieces you can use throughout Faith Renewed - Mission Sustained.
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pastor scripts,
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pastor talking points,
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parish emails,
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social media post text,
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and bulletin announcement copy
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These materials are meant to make communication easier for your parish team. You can use them as written, personalize them for your parish, or pull pieces from them to fit your bulletin, email, website, pulpit announcements, and social media channels.
Printed Pieces (AOB Provided)
To help make Faith Renewed - Mission Sustained easy to implement, the AOB will provide printed materials that can be customized for your parish by your AOB advancement team member and shipped to you free of charge.
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Printed materials include:
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Mission Reflection Card for Mission Weekend
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Personal Renewal Card for Renewal Weekend
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Gratitude Card for Gratitude Weekend
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QR code stickers for the back of pews
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Posters to place around the parish
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These pieces are designed to help parishioners engage with each weekend of the program and keep the message of mission, renewal, and gratitude visible throughout the parish.
Canva Templates (you can edit)
If your would like to customize any of the bulletin inserts, graphics, or other program materials directly, you can use the Canva template links below.
These templates give you a simple starting point and allow your parish team to adjust text, images, parish-specific details, and branding as needed.
For the entire program
Lead-up Weekend
PDF's for download
Most of the program materials are ready to use as they are. If you would like to preview the pieces, print bulletin inserts, or download materials for your parish communications, click the button below to download everything in one zip file.
Lead-up Weekend
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Social Media Graphic
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Weekend 1
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Social Media Graphic
Mission Reflection Card
Weekend 2
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Social Media Graphic
Personal Renewal Card
Weekend 3
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Social Media Graphic
Gratitude Card
Lead-Up Week: Preparing for the Program
Lead-Up Week helps introduce Faith Renewed - Mission Sustained before the three-week offertory program begins. This is the time to let parishioners know that the parish will be spending a few weeks reflecting on mission, renewal, gratitude, and the many ways offertory giving sustains parish life.
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This week should feel simple and inviting. The goal is to help parishioners know what is coming, why it matters, and how they will be invited to take part. It also gives parish staff a chance to begin promoting the program through the bulletin, parish email, social media, and other regular communication channels.
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Available Resources:
Bulletin Announcement
Email to Parishioners
Social Media Post
Social Media Graphic
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Interactive Piece:
None
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Lead-Up Week is mainly about awareness and invitation. The interactive pieces begin during Mission Weekend, when parishioners are invited to complete the Mission Reflection Card.
Weekend 1: Mission
Mission Weekend helps parishioners reconnect with why the parish matters. This week is centered on the worship, ministries, outreach, formation, service, and community that bring the parish mission to life every day.
The goal for this weekend is to help parishioners see that offertory giving is connected to real parish life. Their support helps sustain the ministries, programs, and moments of care that make the parish a place of faith, welcome, and mission.
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Available Resources:
Pastor Script
Pastor Talking Points
Bulletin Announcement
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Email to Parishioners
Social Media Post
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Interactive Piece:
Mission Reflection Card
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The Mission Reflection Card gives parishioners a simple way to share where they see the parish mission being lived out. These cards can be completed during Mass and returned before parishioners leave. The responses can help the parish lift up real examples of ministry, gratitude, and impact during the rest of the program.
Weekend 2: Renewal
Focus:
Renewal Weekend invites parishioners to reflect on their personal commitment to the parish and consider how their offertory support helps sustain parish life.
This week helps parishioners connect their giving with the worship, ministries, community, and mission they value. It is a chance to encourage each household to prayerfully renew its support in a way that reflects gratitude for all God has given and for the life of the parish.
Renewal Weekend is also a good time to highlight recurring online giving as a practical way to provide steady support throughout the year.
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Available Resources:
Pastor Script
Pastor Talking Points
Bulletin Announcement
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Email to Parishioners
Social Media Post
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Interactive Piece:
Personal Renewal Card
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The Personal Renewal Card gives parishioners a simple, private way to reflect on their commitment to the parish. This card is completed during Mass and taken home as a reminder of their renewed commitment to prayer, offertory support, parish involvement, gratitude, and legacy planning.
Weekend 3: Gratitude
Focus:
Gratitude Weekend gives the parish a chance to thank parishioners for the many ways they support parish life through generosity, prayer, service, participation, and commitment.
This week helps bring the program together by reminding parishioners that the mission of the parish is sustained by many gifts. It is also a chance to share some of the gratitude, ministry moments, or themes that surfaced during Mission Weekend and to celebrate the people and ministries that make the parish strong.
Gratitude Weekend should feel joyful, appreciative, and forward-looking. The goal is to help parishioners feel seen, thanked, and invited to continue building up the life of the parish together.
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Available Resources:
Pastor Script
Pastor Talking Points
Bulletin Announcement
Bulletin Insert: Half Page
Bulletin Insert: Full Page
Email to Parishioners
Social Media Post
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Interactive Piece:
Gratitude Card
The Gratitude Card gives parishioners a simple way to name a person, ministry, or moment they are thankful for in the parish. These cards can be placed in a basket or box in the narthex or gathering area and used throughout the year as part of the parish’s ongoing gratitude effort.
Selected reflections can be shared periodically in the bulletin, parish emails, social media, or other parish communications to keep gratitude visible and encourage a stronger culture of appreciation and generosity.