Through St. Thomas’ Parish’s stewardship program we have developed a number of resources to assist members in living out this journey of developing their holy habits of tithing, daily personal prayer and study, Sabbath time and weekly corporate workshop. This includes educational programs throughout the year, preaching and worship that focuses on stewardship and opportunities to examine your own approaches to personal and corporate stewardship.
New this year are “Every Member Counts” parties which are being hosted my your fellow parishioners. Every congregant will receive an invitation to one of 12 evening events scheduled between now and Nov. 20. These evenings will give parishioners a chance to socialize and hear a short presentation about how the parish is spending your contributions and why we need your continued generosity. Look for your invitations in the mail soon.
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It's that time of the year again. It's written about in our bulletins and spoken of during announcements. It even warranted an entire sermon of devotion. Yep, you guessed it, our call to Stewardship. Time to whip out the checkbooks and bite the bullet to keep our church alive. Stewardship; however, is not a once a year event. Along with your fiscal contribution, St. Thomas' also needs donations of your time and talents to our Committees and events that make our Parish life thrive!
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Does your employer have a matching funds program? Did you know that your pledge to St. Thomas' qualifies for matching funds at many companies? Many employers will match charitable donations dollar for dollar others match at an even higher rate. So the value of your annual pledge to St. Thomas' can easily be doubled or even tripled.
To take advantage of this program, just ask for a matching funds form from your employer, human resources office or matching funds department. Then complete it and return it to St. Thomas'.
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The 2009 Stewardship Campaign video created by Louie Stewart and seen by many parisioners at the Every Memeber Counts Receptions is available on YouTube.
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Whether your financial gifts to the parish are week-by-week cash donations to the plate or if you have submitted a pledge card and ‘promised’ the parish an amount for our 2008 year of life together, to support the mission and ministry of the parish, our Treasurer, Finance team and our Accountant ALL STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EACH OF US TO USE OUR PLEDGE ENVELOPES (if you’re not donating on-line). Our weekly team of ‘counters’ spend several hours, Sunday by Sunday in this largely invisible, respectfully quiet ministry, which is essential to the ongoing life of our community. Their work would be so much efficient, as the work of the rest of this spiritually-centered team, if they had the luxury of recording amounts with numbered envelopes. The envelopes can be found on a table in the Guild Room.
Thank you, Really!
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 If you would like to support the ministries of St. Thomas' but are not an ongoing member, you can use our online offering form or mail a contribution to the Parish Office.
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