ORDER YOUR LOOK/AFTER
OFFERING KIT
The Relief Fund is ready to partner with your church to provide for pastors, widows, and ministry workers in need.
Why participate in Ministerial Relief?
For decades, Geneva’s Look/After offering has rallied PCA churches and their congregations to care for those who have faithfully served Christ’s church. By participating in a special offering in support of the Relief Fund, churches give their members the opportunity to look after PCA pastors and widows in great need.
What Your Gift Does
70%
of pastors are not confident they have enough savings for retirement
Your gift provides for retired PCA pastors living near or below the poverty line.
2
PCA pastors’ wives become widows every month on average
Your gift provides one-time and monthly support to widows in need.
80%
of pastors’ wives would access Christian counseling if offered
Your gift provides affordable access to Christian counseling.
How Your Church Can Participate
- Order a free Look/After Offering Kit that includes everything you need to share about the Relief Fund with your church.
- Share the need using the print and digital resources we’ve created for you.
- Invite your congregation to give and pray for pastors, widows, and ministry workers in need.
- Collect a special offering for the Relief Fund by December 31st.
START HERE
Order your free Look/After Kit
4 WEEKS BEFORE
Add the offering to your church calendar
2 WEEKS BEFORE
Announce the offering in church communications
OFFERING SUNDAY
Distribute bulletin inserts and offering envelopes
AFTER
Mail collected offering envelopes to the Donation Processing Center
“Since our inception, our church has longed to have and maintain a heart for the principle found in James 1:27…Thus, every Christmas Eve, we commit to collecting and supporting our Denomination’s Look After Widow’s Fund.”
Rev. Scott Bull, Pastor Grace Community Church of Buford
“If we do not take care of those who invest their lives in ministry to our church, our communities, our country and the world I believe we have failed. These folks sacrificed to further the Kingdom of Christ and the Christian community has a responsibility to care for them.”
Jim, Donor and PCA church member
“When I lost everything, I felt God was still taking care of me. God was very gracious and he set me up with [the Relief Fund], and I have been with them ever since.”
Peggy West, widow of PCA Pastor, monthly financial assistance recipient
Order a church toolkit
Contact us directly
GIVE TO THE RELIEF FUND
Assistant Vice President of Advancement, Chris Zurbach
give@genevabenefits.org
Mail Donations to our Donation Processing Center
Geneva Benefits Group – Relief
PO Box 632081
Cincinnati, OH 45263-2081
Checks can be made payable to the Relief Fund
Geneva’s Ministerial Relief Fund offers special support to PCA pastors, widows, and church employees in times of need.
This fund gives hope to families at their most desperate hour, and is made possible by generous donations from people like you.