When we talk about stewardship of our resources, we mostly think about our finances, our dollars. Stewardship drives in congregations are usually all about money. How much are you able to pledge? Can you increase your pledge this year? However, our resources are so much more. I attended a Southwest Conference Boundaries Training a week […]
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Standing with Mother Earth: Using our Voice
When we think about stewardship of the Earth, about what it means to be care-takers and gardeners, we often times ignore importance of our voice in this work. Gardening is physical. It uses our bodies. Today, our voice is extremely important in our work as care-takers and guardians of the Earth and its Waters. Avengers […]
Accountability strengthens Stewardship
I have talked a great deal from time to time in this blog about accountability. Stewardship requires us to be accountable for our actions and to hold others accountable for theirs as well. It is through accountability with each other, that we learn to become more and more responsible, become better stewards of what the […]
Stewardship: Being Custodians
Stewardship means experiencing everything as gifted to us by the Sacred. Everything! This includes our skills, abilities, talents, spiritual gifts, qualities, financial resources, Land, food, shelter, community, family, friends, blessings, abundance, hopes and desires, goals and accomplishments. All of it has been gifted and supported by the presence and work of the Sacred. Stewardship invites […]
Stewardship as a lifestyle
Stewardship is a word we throw around every Fall in churches. We talk about stewardship at the time of the year when we are creating our church budgets and asking people to pledge their giving for the next year. We have narrowed stewardship down to dollars. Because of that, often times we do not want […]