Small, Meaningful Act

One of the systems that we think is crucial in a church is the First-Time Giver system.  We recommend developing a very simple way to acknowledge the huge decision someone has made to give to the church for the first time.  It is overlooked too many times.  The letter below was sent to me by one of our clients.  They received it in response to the handwritten thank you note sent to her after she gave for the first time at their church. A little goes a long way!

Staff Member,

Thank you so much for the sweet thank you card.  I have never received a thank you card for making an offering before!  So it was a lovely surprise.

That was a special offering for me.  The Lord has been working with me on giving!  I am a visual artist, and one day sold a painting — God told me to give all the money away from that particular sell.  I didn’t know what to do, so I just prayed about it.  In the next couple of weeks I opened my first business account at the bank and knew that I should use my very first check to make that donation.  It was a special moment for me because I felt like I was obeying what God told me to do, and by using the first check it was symbolic of the foundation of my business —  to remember to always do everything for God.

Thank you again for the note, it means so much!
First Time Giver