Coaching
Generous Culture
“The Generous Culture team exists to enable a culture of generosity to be unleashed throughout all TSA faith communities. We offer coaching and mentoring to faith communities, on the topics of stewardship, giving and generosity. We provide data and reports to support faith communities to monitor giving at a local level.”
Generous Culture focuses on corps and how they are travelling when it comes to generosity - individually and as a congregation.
The Generous Culture Team provide coaching and mentoring which includes assessing current situation in mission, ministry, giving and the overall culture of generosity. It is an opportunity to seriously look at where the corps is and where it needs to be. Corps leadership teams play a very important role in this process.
Previously The Salvation Army in this Territory had what we call Planned Giving. Generous Culture acknowledges everything that has gone before but has evolved to the next level.
This describes how we have evolved:
PLANNED GIVINGFrom: |
GENEROUS CULTURETo: |
| Program | Development |
| Directed | Coached |
| Structured | Framework |
| Inflexible | Flexible |
| Non-negotiables | Corps need focused |
| Tight time frame | Locally determined time frame |
| Finance focus | Generosity focused - holistically |
| Lay leadership | Local leadership |
| Headquarters owned | Corps owned |
| Raising funds | Culture of Generosity |
| Transaction | Transformation |
This is an exciting journey and we look forward to seeing what God has in store as we all become more generous.
What is Generous Culture Coaching?
Rather than directing we are about listening to the needs of the individual corps and supporting the Corps Officer/s and Leadership as they discover where the corps is and where it needs to be, and how to get there.
Coaching is very much self directed because we believe that the answer lies within the life and experience of the corps. Coaching uses various tools to help the answers come out.
Mission Support Team - Generous Culture
- Major Neil Dickson (based in Brisbane)
- Major John Elkington (based in Melbourne)
- Rendle Williams (based in Brisbane)
We are available to support you and your corps in their generosity journey. In addition to that we can support you with the recording system.
If you would like any information regarding Generous Culture or require any support, please contact generous.culture@salvationarmy.org.au and one of us will get back to you.