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The PCUSA website has a good definition of what
Stewardship should mean to Presbyterians.
Stewardship is about making choices, as
individuals and in community. It is more than
giving money to the church. Stewardship is about
being faithful disciples, caring for and managing
all that God has given us.
Stewardship is not just one part of Christian
discipleship; it involves every aspect of life in
all the stages of life.
Stewardship is the grateful response to God's
grace and goodness. It requires a consideration of
how our choices affect us and others, of how we
can be good caretakers of the created world, and
of how we can best serve God as disciples of
Christ.
Black Mountain
members are urged to tithe their monetary
resources and pledge whatever amount they are able
to give regularly to the operation of the church.
At the same time they are encouraged to give of
their time and talents, filling out Time and
Talent questionnaires periodically to indicate
which areas they would like to work with in the
daily life of the church, whether it be in serving
on a specific committee, or helping host community
Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, or teaching
Sunday School, or helping with the Logos program,
or in donating their handyman talents on the
property committee or in helping build houses for
Habitat for Humanity. There is a need, as
well as a use, for many kinds of talents in
our church.
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Put Sunday, October
17, on your calendar
for the Catered
Stewardship Dinner.
More information
will appear in the
September and
October Windows. |
