Explore God’s generosity and what it means to live generously.
Generosity Week is an opportunity for your church to reflect on God’s generosity towards us and consider how we can respond through generous lives.
It often works well during the Harvest season, when we are already giving thanks for all that God has given us, but you can hold a Generosity Week at any time of year. The programme is deliberately flexible, so you can adapt it to suit the size, context and capacity of your church.
By the end of the week, we hope that your congregation will have a deeper understanding of God’s generosity and feel encouraged to put generosity into practice in their everyday lives.
How to organise a Generosity Week
1. Choose your week
Pick a week that works for your church. You could link it with Harvest or another suitable point in your church calendar.
2. Ask for support
Contact the diocesan Generous Giving team for advice, ideas and help choosing the right resources for your church.
3. Choose your activities
Explore the available resources and select the worship, reflections, and activities that will work best in your context. You do not need to use everything.
Think about who will lead each part and make sure you have enough people to help.
4. Plan two Sundays
Holding Generosity Week between two Sundays gives you an opportunity to explore:
- Gratitude: recognising and giving thanks for God’s generosity.
- Generosity: considering how we respond through our time, gifts, actions and money.
Service outlines, sermon starters, and prayers are available to help you plan generosity-themed worship.
Generosity Week: A message from the Archbishop of York
Watch a message from the Archbishop of York introducing Generosity Week and encouraging churches to grow in generosity.
National Generosity Week resources
The Church of England provides a range of adaptable materials, including:
- Service outlines, prayers and sermon starters
- Daily reflections and activities
- Small-group materials
- Resources for children and young people
- Videos and study guides
- Ideas for encouraging generosity within your church and community
Use the complete programme or choose just the resources that will be most helpful for your congregation.
National Resources
Take a look below at the various resources your church might use during a Generosity Week. You may wish to use all the resources available or just a selection.
Generous Living resources
Our diocesan Generous Living resources can help your church explore generosity as part of Christian discipleship.
They support our commitment to become more like Christ and to transform our mission and ministry—helping people see generosity not simply as giving money, but as a way of life shaped by God’s generosity to us.
Generous Living Resources
The Generous Living team have created resources to support our discipleship commitment to become more Christ-like and transform our mission and ministry.
Need some help?
The Generous Giving team can help you plan your Generosity Week, choose appropriate resources and think about what might work well in your church.
