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An evaluation of the breakthrough in the 80’s financial stewardship program of the Penn Northeast Conference of the United Church of Christ

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Dencler, Claude L. An Evaluation of the Breakthrough In the 80’s Financial Stewardship Program of the Penn Northeast Conference of the United Church of Christ. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d34b2b6a-ba51-476d-8db8-5b4af27cba2e.

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D. C. L. An evaluation of the breakthrough in the 80’s financial stewardship program of the Penn Northeast Conference of the United Church of Christ. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d34b2b6a-ba51-476d-8db8-5b4af27cba2e

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Dencler, Claude L. An Evaluation of the Breakthrough In the 80’s Financial Stewardship Program of the Penn Northeast Conference of the United Church of Christ. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d34b2b6a-ba51-476d-8db8-5b4af27cba2e.

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  • During the decade of the 1980s the Penn Northeast Conference of the United Church of Christ (encompassing the counties of Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, Lucerne, Columbia, Pike, Lackawanna, Wayne, Susquehanna, and Bradford, (in northern Pennsylvania) made available to its churches a financial stewardship program entitled, Breakthrough in the 80’s. The intent of that program was to help local churches obtain, from their members, more money for the ministry and mission of the Church. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Breakthrough in the 80’s Program. The first task will be to offer an overview of the development of stewardship as a key theological concept. Secondly will be presented a brief historical sketch of the UCC churches in the Conference, tracing their origin to the German people who first came to the shores of North America in the seventeenth century. Next will be offered a description of the program itself, including its original purposes, its evolution over the decade it was offered, and a listing of the resources used. The evaluation of the Breakthrough Program will be presented in an objective and subjective manner. The numbers and statistics will present the facts of the program’s effectiveness, while the insights gained from the subjective evaluation will offer learnings that often speak louder than mere figures. The final section of this paper will offer overall conclusions reached about the success of the Breakthrough Program as well as render insights that could prove helpful for anyone else endeavoring to construct and implement a similar program in the future.
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  • 12/18/2025

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