What is Stewardship

What is Stewardship?

Stewardship is a complete lifestyle, a life of total accountability and responsibility acknowledging God as Creator and Owner of all. Stewards as disciples of Jesus Christ see themselves as caretakers of all God's gifts. Gratitude for these gifts is expressed in prayer, worship, offering and action by eagerly sharing these gifts out of love of God and one another.

Stewardship is based on the spiritual principles of the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus; and where it has been implemented, both givers' and receivers' lives have been changed. Stewardship is a way of life, a way of thanking God for all His blessings by returning a portion of the time, talent and treasure allotted to us.

Stewardship is living out Christ's instruction to "love one another as I have loved you".

Stewardship is caring. Stewardship is responsible management of our God-given resources of time, talent and treasure. It enhances our relationship with God and one another.

Stewardship builds happy, healthy families. Stewardship renews Christ's Church.

Stewardship pleases God because the good steward is careful of creation, is respectful of justice and charity, and is prayerful at all times.

Our offering of time, talent and treasure is one way of saying: We belong to the Lord and to one another. It is an:

Act of Faith:
We profess that we belong to God and all that we possess is His,
Act of Trust:
We place our life in God's loving hands and make Him our treasure,
Act of Worship:
We adore Him as the giver of all good gifts,
Act of Belonging:
We unite our offering with the rest of our Parish Family so that together we might care for the needs of one another, especially the poor.
As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. (Peter 4:10)

We acknowledge that all we are and all we have comes to us from Your generous hands. You have given us talents, resources, time & treasure to be used according to your will to bring forth a harvest of justice, peace & love.
Guide us today to be Good Stewards, returning to You the fruit of our labors and sharing Your blessings with Your children in need.
We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our model of humble service and our Savior, for all ages to come. Amen.