Church leaders are often heard to say that old ways aren’t working any longer. Creating a Climate for Giving brings a vision for a fresh way of creating a climate for giving in local churches. Joiner explores the subsystems through which a church leads its members to give or not to give. We must refine fund-raising to funding ministry. In the interim between being a fund-raising church and becoming a funding ministry church, finance leaders will continue to need models demonstrating how to operate the short-term finance ministries of their church. This is where Joiner can help.