Finance Resource Guide
The Finance Resource Guide (FRG) is a handbook for congregations and vestries. It provides in-depth financial management practices and principles and promotes year-round, theologically driven stewardship. The guide is available in English and Spanish.
Vestry Resource Guide
Whether you’re a first-time vestry member or a seasoned veteran, the Vestry Resource Guide (VRG) offers an approach for congregational and faith community leaders to consider and tailor to meet their own needs. It is available in English and Spanish.
Funding Future Ministry
This comprehensive manual from ECF ensures that clergy and lay leaders know the most effective ways to encourage legacy gifts, all set in a theological framework.
Planned Giving on Demand
Planned Giving on Demand provides easy-to-use resources to help you launch and sustain a planned giving program in your church, all in one place. A combination of printed and online resources, Planned Giving on Demand will walk you through every step to establish, enhance, and sustain an effective planned giving ministry.
Beyond the Baptismal Covenant
The future of the Episcopal Church depends on the raising up of fully committed, fully equipped lay leaders. In this empowering book for both lay and clergy, former ECF President and author Donald Romanik explains the historical and biblical roots of lay involvement and outlines how to promote lay leadership to change and grow the church.
Money Legacies
This concise volume by former ECF President Donald V. Romanik explores the one subject that is still taboo, “especially in church circles and especially among Episcopalians” – money. He explains how "money, and how we spend it, is the clear indication of our values and priorities.” What is your story about money, and how does it affect your congregation?