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  • Finance Committee

    THIS IS THE QUESTION FOR FINANCE COMMITTEES:   HOW DO WE EXTEND THE OFFERING PLATE? Today’s finance committees do not need to be experts in accounting practices.  Save those folk for the yearly audit.  Today’s finance committees need to: Understand their congregation: the ways members give, their capacity, giving habits and philanthropic interests Available models…

  • Stewardship: Communicating the Expectation of God

    This begs the question:  What IS God’s expectation?  One of the more difficult questions I ever had from a parishioner was, “How can I be expected to love and worship a God who would treat the rich with contempt?”  When I pursued this line of thought I found it was this line from the Magnificat…

  • The Relevance of Social Statements

    …the whole church discerns and carefully-prayerfully creates social statements, and then, we are called without threat of excommunication or condemnation to figure out how to do it.