Generous Church Leadership 2025
This online curriculum is designed to help clergy develop their understanding and confidence for leading congregations toward growth in generosity.
A collaborative work of four General Agencies of The United Methodist Church, each session of Generous Church Leadership includes:
- Opening devotions
- Videos with discussion questions
- Case studies
- Leader/mentor guides
- Course support from leading professionals
- and CEU availability!
The hope for the course is that participants will grow in their understanding of their leadership role in local church finances and will be able to connect and articulate generosity as a key component of a growing, authentic disciple of Jesus Christ.
A 6-Session Series with Topics Including:
- Theology of Money
- Pastor as Generosity Leader
- A Disciple’s Relationship to Money
- Nurturing Generous Leaders
- Generosity the United Methodist Way
- Moving to a Congregational Culture of Generosity
CEU Accredited Course Offering
Discipleship Ministries eLearning offers continuing education units (CEU) upon successful course completion. Available to clergy and lay leadership of all denominations, you receive high-quality information that will enrich your faith life and ministry. This course is a CEU accredited course offering. Learn more about CEU offerings
CEUs: 0.5
Price: $25
Your Instructor
The Rev. Dr. Ken Sloane is the Director of Stewardship & Generosity housed at Discipleship Ministries (GBOD) in Nashville, Tenn. He is a clergy member of the Greater New Jersey Conference, where he served 20+ years in local church ministry (including a successful new church start) and 5 years as the Director of Connectional Ministries. In 2006 he was appointed to serve as Director of Communications Ministry at United Methodist Communications, and traveled extensively across the denomination doing presentations on how to interpret connectional giving to our local churches. He moved into his Stewardship role on October 1, 2011. Ken has authored the courses "Disciples Living Generously," "Generous Church Leadership," "Financial Ethics" and this "Creating a Narrative Budget: The Stories Behind the Numbers" course. Ken is the author of the Local Church Guidelines for Stewardship (Cokesbury), a contributor to the Local Church Guidelines for Finance and the advance Lay Servant course, Connectional Living, Connectional Giving. Ken lives in Nashville with his wife Bridget; they have four grown children, some of whom may be living with them depending on when you ask.
Registration for this course will close on October 1, 2025. The course will be archived on October 31, 2025. Students will still be able to access the course content after that date, but the instructor will no longer respond to comments.