Doing Mission and Giving to Mission:
Challenging Questions
These questions may help guide the discernment of a mission committees as they discern how to define and allocate money from the congregation directed to mission work outside the congregation:
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How much money which
the congregation receives should be turned around and given out beyond the
congregation? How is this amount determined? Does the session define and
communicate a goal for mission giving beyond the congregation? Or is this
amount determined by default, after all other financial obligations are met?
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What projects beyond
the local congregation do you support that do NOT involve giving money?
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How much of your
giving beyond the congregation supports local projects and how much supports
PCUSA projects?
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Of all the projects
you support financially – both local projects and through the PCUSA – with how
many do you have a personal and spiritual connection?
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Do you perceive in
your congregation now any difference in the level of commitment to our
Presbytery and the level of commitment to the General Assembly?
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Presbyterian World
Mission has focused their work into three critical initiatives: Evangelism, Global Poverty and Reconciliation.
Which of these areas would be most important for your congregation? Into which
area do your mission projects fit?
