Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. Joel 1:1-3
“Interestingly, results from a more recent study examining charitable giving by young adults in the United States found evidence that some aspects of marital giving decisions may be changing across generations. This survey found that the average amounts given by young single men and young couples is lower now than it was four decades ago, whereas the amount given by young single women is about the same. It also found that for couples where the man made the giving decisions, the average amounts of giving were lower among GenX/Millennial couples than among pre-Boomer couples but were higher among couples where women influenced giving decisions.”
Summer Allen in “The Science of Generosity” White Paper produced by the Greater Good Science Center.
This study reports that across generations giving has changed more among men than women. As I stated previously, rather than make generalizations and point fingers, we must each ask ourselves, like the Prophet Joel, questions like this one: What we are telling to our children and our children’s children about generosity?
Thanks for your prayers for me as I have strategic discussions with influential workers in Eastern Europe about multiplying faithful stewards and helping ministries follow standards with peer accountability. I am resting in Czechia this weekend at the home of my friend, Milan Hluchy, in Vranov, north of Brno (pictured above).