Resources for Congregations
RootedGood is here to help your congregation expand its imagination, create new economic models, and make use of your buildings and land in new ways.
Would your congregation like to…
Generate new forms of revenue to sustain and grow your ministry?
Imagine and design new expressions of ministry that connect deeply with your neighbors?
Make more use of buildings that sit empty too much of the week?
Prepare to develop your property into affordable housing or something else?
Launch a social enterprise on your buildings and land that generates income and changes lives?
RootedGood can help!
“The question of church buildings and land is one of the defining issues facing American Christianity during the next few years.”
— Rev. Joe Daniels, Pastor, Emory United Methodist ChurchWhere to Begin
A course that helps your congregation creatively use its buildings and property to further your mission and generate new forms of income. It is a proven and affordable curriculum for building imagination and designing a social enterprise that fits your congregation and place.
Good Futures
How-To Guides
Practical tools designed by experts to help your leaders discuss, discern, and decide. Topics include how to rent, develop, sell, partner, and end well, plus guides on taxes and on aligning money and mission. Available as digital downloads or printed copies.
Good Next Step
A pay-it-forward grant program that helps Wisconsin churches move from vision to action on housing and other community-serving uses of their land. Open to Wisconsin churches that have completed the Good Futures Accelerator or a similar planning process.