A three-month coaching program for Lead Pastors of churches under 150 weekly attenders — giving you the theological foundation, the 52-week offering moment system, the first-time giver journey, and the confidence to lead generosity formation personally and permanently.
At a church under 150, you're not delegating generosity communication to a team. You're carrying it personally — from the offering moment on Sunday to the email nobody opened, to the year-end campaign you put together in ten days. This isn't a failure of effort. It's a missing architecture.
Every Sunday you step to the mic with something from last week, a vague scripture, or the same three things you always say. You know you're not making the most of those 90 seconds — but without a framework, you don't know how to make them better.
Your giving communication looks like two campaigns and a lot of silence. You know the congregation needs more formation than that. But building a year-round strategy feels like it requires a team you don't have and a strategy you haven't built.
Someone makes their first gift. You feel great about it. Ninety days later they're gone — or still there, but nobody followed up, and they gave once and haven't given since. You're losing the most formative season in a new giver's journey in silence.
The Generosity Culture Accelerator is built for churches with 150+ weekly attenders and a dedicated communications team. It builds the complete architecture: 12 sessions, 52-week email calendars by giving segment, year-end campaigns, major giver frameworks, and a full Generosity Culture Playbook.
The Seed Program is not a lesser version of that. It removes the components that require a comms team and focuses on what moves the needle most for a small church — the four highest-leverage tools in the entire framework, in the format a solo pastor can actually execute.
Each month is a compounding layer — doctrine before systems, systems before voice, voice before sustainability. You don't get a module to watch. You get a coaching relationship built around your church's actual situation.
Nothing built on a misdiagnosis holds. Month 1 permanently reframes how you think about generosity — shifting from a campaign problem to a formation posture. The work done here governs everything built in Months 2 and 3.
Month 2 is the operational core. The offering moment framework is the single highest-leverage tool in the system — 52 touchpoints per year, in your voice, anchored in scripture. After this session, you never improvise an offering moment again.
Month 3 closes the most costly gap in small church generosity: the first-time giver who gives once and disappears. It also installs the systems that make everything self-sustaining — documented, owned, and running without outside help.
Every deliverable is custom-built for your church during the engagement — scaled for a solo pastor, written in your voice, and designed to run without a staff member you don't have.
A one-to-two sentence statement connecting the act of giving to your specific church's mission — crafted using The Vision Forge worksheet, coached live, and refined to something your congregation actually internalizes and your pastor can deliver with conviction from any context.
A diagnostic tool designed specifically for churches under 150 — pulling and interpreting the four key health indicators: recurring giving percentage, first-time giver 90-day retention, peak-to-valley ratio, and year-over-year consistency. Completed before Month 1 and reviewed with the coach to set specific goals for the engagement.
52 fully written offering moment scripts — one per week — following the 40/8/4 formula (40 scripture, 8 story/vision, 4 financial transparency) and the Four-Element structure. Written by the coach in your specific pastoral voice using the theological positioning captured during Month 2. Delivered within 10 business days of the session.
A complete visual planning template mapping every offering moment, giving communication, pastoral touchpoint, and quarterly value-add moment across 12 months — built around your church's actual annual rhythms, series, seasons, and events. The calendar that moves your generosity communication from reactive to intentional.
A documented, step-by-step process for every touchpoint from a person's first gift to the moment they become a consistent giver — adapted for a solo pastor with simplified delivery: genuine gratitude within 48 hours, a window into mission impact, and a warm invitation into belonging. All three messages written in your voice, ready to deploy.
The master document that institutionalizes everything built during the program — the vision statement, formation framework, offering moment calendar, first-time giver sequence, generosity language guide, and annual review process. The single document the culture lives in, survives every season in, and can be handed to a future staff member without losing anything.
Each bonus is delivered at the exact moment in the program when you have the foundation to use it — not front-loaded on day one before you know what to do with it.
A diagnostic audit tool designed specifically for churches under 150 — revealing current giving culture health, establishing your four baseline metrics, and giving the coach real data before Month 1 even begins. Distributed immediately upon enrollment so the first coaching conversation is specific to your church, not a generic teaching module.
A 45-minute training on delivering offering moments with confidence, warmth, and pastoral authenticity — covering physical delivery, pacing, tone, and presence alongside the theological framework. Delivered one week before Month 2 so you arrive with questions, examples you want to work through, and a beginning sense of your own offering moment voice.
Two parts: first, the Generosity Language Standards — vocabulary preferences, avoided phrases, and the two-question test that governs every communication in this framework. Second, a swipe file of 20 ready-to-use copy examples scaled for a small church.
A theological positioning and pastoral voice document built by the coach from the Month 2 session and your submitted offering moment examples — capturing your specific doctrinal posture, vocabulary, communication patterns, and tone.
The full first-time giver process document adapted for a solo pastor — simplified touchpoints, pastor-to-member delivery, and a three-part email or text sequence written in your church's voice.
A standalone vision resource on what comes after generosity culture is built — the theology of surplus, the Surplus Decision Framework, the Generosity Flywheel, and the counterintuitive reality that churches who give generously to others attract more generous givers.
Not aspirational. Specific. Every item below was built or installed during the engagement — and it runs without outside help from this point forward.
The Generosity Seed Program operates on a pay-what-you-can model because the pastors who need this program most are often the ones with the least budget margin. The suggested investment is $1,500. The minimum is $0. Both receive the full program, every deliverable, every bonus. No questions asked.
The pay-what-you-can model is not a discount strategy — it is a conviction. Generosity culture should be accessible to the churches that need it most, regardless of budget. If your church is at $0, enroll at $0. If it's at $500, enroll at $500. The suggested investment of $1,500 reflects the value delivered and helps sustain the ability to offer the $0 option to other churches. Every church receives the same program.
Not sure if this is the right fit? Book a 30-minute discovery call — no pitch, no pressure.
At a church under 150, the Lead Pastor is not supervising a communications department. They are carrying the entire generosity posture of the church in their own voice and presence — the offering moment, the year-end ask, the first-time giver thank-you, the pastoral visit to a declining giver. All of it.
This program is engineered for that reality. Every deliverable is scaled for a solo or bivocational pastor. Nothing in this program requires a staff member you don't have.
You are the Lead Pastor of a church under 150 weekly attenders, and you are also the primary communicator about generosity — writing the emails, delivering the offering moments, and carrying the giving culture personally.
You are bivocational or leading a church plant where giving culture is still forming and you need the highest-leverage framework, not the most complex one.
You are ready to move from reactive, campaign-driven giving communication to a documented year-round posture — and you want coaching, not another course to watch alone.
Budget is real. You need the program to make financial sense. The pay-what-you-can model, including $0, is specifically designed for where you are.
Your church has 150+ weekly attenders and a dedicated communications staff member. That's the Generosity Culture Accelerator — a different program built for that context.
You are looking for a campaign lift or a fundraising system. This program builds formation culture — which produces sustained giving growth, not a short-term spike.
If something isn't covered here, a conversation is the fastest way to find out if this is the right fit.
Three months from now, you can lead generosity formation with theological conviction, a 52-week library in your own voice, a first-time giver sequence that runs without you, and a calendar that keeps the culture alive year-round. Or you can improvise another offering moment on Sunday and wonder why giving stays flat. The architecture exists. The program is ready. And if budget is a barrier — it genuinely isn't.
Suggested: $1,500. Minimum: $0. No conditions. No difference in what you receive. Both the $0 and $1,500 options include every session, every deliverable, and every bonus. If you're unsure, book a call. There is no pressure and no pitch — just a direct conversation about whether this is the right season for your church.