Read Ellis Kilgore's Stewardship Talk October 25, 2009

Read Stephanie Yucius Stewardship Talk October 18, 2009

Stewardship Education Day (All Saints Day)-Nov 1^st

Christian Nurture and Development, the Stewardship Committee, staff and clergy have deemed All Saints Day-Nov 1^st Stewardship Instruction Day. All services and Church School classes (Catechesis-Young Lambs thru Level III and all Adult classes) will coordinate their program discussions around stewardship. As part of our year round program, we felt that a day dedicated to discussing the following points as as a congregation could be invaluable.

1.  What is a steward?

2.  What makes me a steward?

3.  What gifts do I have to offer?

4.  How can I offer these gifts?

5.  What is my responsibility as a steward?

6.  Am I a steward?

We will have specially designed pledge cards to send home with our youth to allow parents to continue this all important discussion at home.
Ingathering-November 8^th

 (Wheel Article dated September 16, 2009  Mark Blythe)

Year Round Stewardship 2009  Stewardship of the Environment

“…. This fragile earth, our
island home…”
[BCP – Eucharistic Prayer C]

What an exquisitely beautiful and wondrously wrought home God has given us. I feel our earth is like a precious family heirloom— to be enjoyed to the fullest while we are living here, and then handed down to future generations. But like most family heirlooms, care must be taken not to cause damage or harm to it, so that our children, grandchildren, and all that follow may enjoy it as well.  And so I do my small part to care for the earth. I use compact florescent bulbs. I
water my flowers with gray water collected in a tub in the shower stall. I compost. I recycle: paper, glass, plastic, aluminum.  St. Catherine’s recycles too—we have baskets in the narthex for your bulletins, and the office staff collects a tall wastebasket full of paper to be recycled every week.  There are recycle containers for drink cans and bottles in the Staff Kitchen, and in the Parish Hall.  To find out more about St. Catherine’s Earth Care Ministry contact Margaret Shaw, mhbshaw@bellsouth.net.
"...All shall be well, and all shall be well,
and all manner of things shall be well" —
Dame Julian of Norwich 1342-1416

(Wheel Article dated July 27th,2009 Stewardship of Environment By Margaret Shaw)

Stewardship is not here today and gone tomorrow, but stewardship is a journey. Stewardship is about life and in fact, is a way of life. At Saint Catherine’s, we want to introduce year round stewardship. Our goal is to promote a year-round awareness and education to encourage church members to practice stewardship.
As we move through the year and the future, it will be more and more apparent how stewardship is a journey that includes all that we are and all that we do.
We are approaching this journey in four distinct seasons of stewardship: Self, Environment, Resources and Relationships. Our Ministry teams will be placed into one of the four distinct seasons. Even though this will happen, there will be a commonality that all areas share. This may be made more apparent when you view the diagrams (organizational chart, timeline and venn) from the presentation, that depicts how this distinctness and commonality is shared.
The presentation has been made to both our conveners and to our Ministry teams as a way to understand that stewardship is all that we are, with all that we have and all that we do with the gifts God had provided to each of us. It is how our ministries relate to each other and how the gifts can apply to more than
one area of stewardship.
The four seasons of stewardship tie in with our annual seasons. Self relates to the early part of the year through Easter. Environment relates to spring through summer. Resources begins towards the end of summer into late fall. Relationships begin in later fall through the holidays. This all will become clearer as this process unfolds and we are each allowed to share our God given gifts.
Open, O Lord, the eyes of all people to behold your gracious hand in all your works, that, rejoicing in your whole creation, they may honor you with their substance, and be faithful stewards of your bounty. — BCP 329
(Wheel Article dated April 6th, 2009-Stewardship, a Year-round Journey)