Generosity Week takes place in the Harvest season, so that as we thank God for his generosity to us, we also have the opportunity to think about how we might respond to that generosity.
Generosity Week is also deliberately flexible to suit all types of church. If you want to set one up, here's how to start:
- Pick a week. For 2024 the week is Sunday 29th September to Sunday 6th October. But if that doesn’t work for you, and another time does, do it then.
- Contact your Diocesan Giving Advisor for help and advice.
- Choose what to do by looking at the summary of resources available. Make sure you have enough people to help you out with the initiatives you want to do.
- Plan your Sundays - two Sundays works well because it gives you one chance to explore gratitude, and one for generosity. To get you started, there are service outlines, sermon starters and prayers - all generosity-themed.
By the end of Generosity Week all of us will have a deeper understanding of God’s generosity towards us and how we can live more generously in our daily lives.
There will also be a national online Eucharist to celebrate generosity on Sunday 29th September.
The Generosity Newsletter
The regular newsletter updates for 2024 have begun:
Download the August 2024 issue
You can still refer back to content in last year's newsletters too:
Download and read the September issue here (final issue of 2023)
Download and read the August issue here
"Our faith starts with the most generous gift of all – God’s gift to us of life itself and new life and new hope in Jesus Christ. What we call 'generosity’ is just our response to these great gifts. I’m therefore delighted to commend these resources that help us explore God’s amazing generosity. This is what Generosity Week is all about. The stories in these podcasts, reflections and resources are moving, inspiring and encouraging. Just like in the parable of the sower, where the seed that falls on good soil grows a crop a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown, we see that every generous act grows further generosity."
The Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York
