Do not be timid about talking about money! In fact, be bold! The lectionary provides ample opportunity between now and “stewardship season” to talk about the role of money in our lives as a spiritual issue. People will listen to your appeal for a financial commitment if you have laid “a firm foundation” for understanding giving as …
St. Barnabas Church in Norwich uses its Community Garden (located in front of the solar panels) to grow food for the Upper Valley Haven food shelf in White River Junction. On May 19th (Pentecost), we held an intergenerational work day to get the garden ready for the season. Parishioners and community neighbors showed up to …
It is time! Tiime to begin thinking about the fall commitment campaign. If you have not assembled your team yet there are several excellent traning opporunities coming up to help you get started. First, there is the TENS (The Episcopal Network for Stewardship) FLOURISHING IN FAITH conference in Salt Lake City July 12-13. Too far …
Friends of Jesus I’m thinking this Easter morning about the friends of Jesus, those first followers, not just the twelve, but the larger company of folks who knew him and in some way, or another, shared in his life and ministry. To varying degrees these companions of Jesus lived and moved and had their being …
Annual Fund Donors 2011-2012 IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION FOR GENEROUS SUPPORT All Saints – S. Burlington Brown, Dana & Vicki Crofut, Don Halverson, Robert Hamilton, The Rev David Huffman, Michael L. CFA MacLean, The Rev. Peter & Margaret McGowan, Sandra Pierson, The Rev. Stewart Pond, Barbara D. Post, Beverly Tillinghast, Robert Udell, The Rev. …
Alleluia Fund Donors 2013 IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION FOR GENEROUS SUPPORT All Saints – S. Burlington Crofut, Don Darling, Ed Halverson, Bob Hamilton, The Rev. David and Jane Huffman, Mike and Meg MacLean, The Rev. Peter and Margaret Park, Audrey Pierson, The Rev. Stewart and Julie Post, …
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Poverty: An Annotated Resource List Books: Brueggemann, Walter, Prayers for a Privileged People, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 2008 Dinsmore, Julia, My Name Is Child of God…Not “Those People”: A First Person Look at Poverty, Augsburg-Fortress, 2007. This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author’s own engaging stories, song lyrics, and …
It is the time of year that congregations begin thinking about financial stewardship and how to best invite people into the generosity movement. The generosity movement is all about developing the spiritual gift of generosity in a way that changes the life of the giver and promote God’s work on reconciliation, justice, and mercy. So here are …
The presentations by the Rev. Tom Brackett at this year’s Ministry Expo are now available as audio recordings. Both plenary sessions and the workshop session held with Bishop Thomas Ely for clergy and other leaders are available here. Tom Brackett, Episcopal Church Officer for Church Planting and Ministry Redevelopment, offered us a broad sweep of …