Step 2: Determine the Minister's Role

How a minister fits into the organ fundraising effort is largely dependent upon church polity and the minister's personal preference and style, but the minister serves often as an ex-officio member of the organ fundraising committee.

As a spiritual advisor and guide, the minister is always at the heart of all church activities, and the minister certainly encourages, inspires, and facilitates the fundraising committee in several specific ways. First, the minister shows support from the pulpit for the project. Second. the minister, knowing the congregation in great detail, serves as a guide concerning who should be solicited, by whom, for how much-and who should be left alone. Third, the minister often asks for gifts. In some instances, the minister alone has raised the entire amount needed for a new pipe organ.