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Stewardship PrayerAlmighty and ever-faithful Lord,

Gratefully acknowledging Your mercy and humbly admitting our need, we pledge our trust in You and each other.

Filled with desire, we respond to Your call for discipleship by shaping our lives in imitation of Christ. We profess that the call requires us to be stewards of Your gifts.

As stewards, we receive Your gifts gratefully, cherish and tend them in a responsible manner, share them in practice and love with others, and return them with increase to the Lord.

We pledge to our ongoing formation as stewards and our responsibility to call others to that same endeavor.

Almighty and ever-faithful God, it is our fervent hope and prayer that You who have begun this good work in us will bring it to fulfillment in Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen

Fostering Stewardship as a Way of Life

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Fostering Stewardship as a Way of Life

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What shall we give back to God from all the gifts we have received?

“Do I truly ‘own’ the values of gratitude, accountability, generous sharing and the willingness to give back to the Lord with increase?”

+ Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy

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Our Mission…Place God First in All Things

Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Grow in Holiness through Prayer, Sacraments and Service

St Michael Parish

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Faith –

St Michael Parish Values

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committed, love

Witnessing and Evangelizing – sharing faith, teaching, learning, conversion, transformation

Community – welcoming, accepting, rooted

Love – Respectful, caring, forgiving, reconciling

Stewardship – time, talent and treasure, serving

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StewardshipIs

D iscipleship

Like other assets, our time is freely

given by God

Our talents and special abilities come from God

We have been entrusted with the stewardship of many treasures including

our bodies, our minds and our opportunities

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Stewardship is Discipleship

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StewardshipIs

D iscipleship

NurtureDeliberate

Receive

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Our Time, Our Talent, Our Treasure

Quality

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StewardshipIs

D iscipleship

Called

Exercise

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Our Time, Our Talent, Our Treasure

Glorify

Serve

Giving

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StewardshipIs

D iscipleship

Giving

God is the giver of all things

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Our Time, Our Talent, Our Treasure

Devotion

Glorifies Awareness

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Stewardship is faithfully using all that God gives us for His Glory –

being a Partner in the Mission

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Partner in the Mission

attends and participates

personal spiritual growth

discern and commit

financially supports

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Our Journey to Becoming a Stewardship Parish

In 1986, adopted Sacrificial GivingIn 1994, Funded Westside Chapel Phase II primarily through Sacrificial Giving –

the Treasure side of StewardshipIn 1999, began responding annually to the call of Stewardship with time, talent

and treasureIn 2000 new Mission and Values Statements and Capital Facilities Task ForceIn 2006, Faith Raising CampaignIn 2009, introduced Living Your Strengths and Growing an Engaged ChurchIn 2010-Present, ME25 surveys

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St. Michael Parish’s Goals for Stewardship of Treasure :

Tithe 10% of our income to needs outside the parish

Fund 100% of our infrastructure and ministries including the ministry of St. Michael School

Our Stewardship Parish

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How We Are Doing

We Tithe 13.3%

Local

State

National

International

Pastor Discretion

Parish Ministries & Infrastructure

Funds Received from Stewardship of Treasure

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“A commitment to stewardship changes the way we live. It is a practical but also very profound awareness that, by ourselves, we are not the source of our own lives, of the freedoms we possess, or even of the material goods that we work for. Our most precious possessions have all been given to us as gifts to be nourished, cared for in responsible ways and freely shared with others.”

Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy

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We will grow daily in our faith through prayer, sacraments and service

We will appoint Parish Leaders from parishioners who are active Partners in the Mission

We will foster our children’s formation in Stewardship as a Way of Life

We will gather in prayer as a community and in small faith sharing groups

We will offer Living Your Strengths workshops as an opportunity to identify, understand, accept, embrace and use our God-given talents

Our Commitment

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We will assure that 80% of our parishioners will have participated in Financial Peace University by 2015

We will continue to tithe at least 10% of our parish income to needs outside the parish community

We will fund 100% of our ministries and infrastructure through our members’ Stewardship of Treasure

We will fund St. Michael School tuition through Stewardship of Treasure

Our Commitment

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Stewardship as a Way of Life through our Time, Talent and Treasure

"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me

Go, therefore, and make disciples"(Matthew 28:18-19a)