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11/3/05
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 1
What is Stewardship? Over the next months the East District Stewardship Committee
would like to share in some detail the following Principles it has
gleaned from the Board of Stewardship of the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod. It is their prayer that these principles
will be a blessing to our members as together we seek to joyfully
serve our Lord in the vocations to which he has graciously called
us in Christ.
Submitted by: Rev. M. Hartburg, AP |
12/2/05
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 2
I. God's Stewards are God's Stewards. God's stewards are stewards by virtue of creation and their
re-creation in Holy Baptism; therefore, they belong to the Lord.
Stewardship is, as a Lutheran leader long ago said,
"everything I do after I say I believe."
Submitted by: Rev. M. Hartburg, AP |
12/19/05
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 3
II. God's Stewards are Managers Not Owners.
God's stewards have been entrusted with life and life's
resources and given the privilege of responsibility and joyfully
managing them for Him.
Submitted by: Rev. M. Hartburg, AP |
01/27/06
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 4
III. GOD'S STEWARDS ARE SAINTS AND SINNERS.
God's stewards rejoice in and live out what the Lord has
declared them to be through the cross. At the same time His
stewards recognize they are sinners who fight sin and its
consequences each day.
Submitted by:
Rev. M. Hartburg, AP |
02/20/06
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 5
III. GOD'S STEWARDS ARE UNIQUELY SINGULAR, YET
PROFOUNDLY PLURAL.
God's stewards recognize that their lives are not solo
performances but are personal responses to God, lived out within
the community of faith in Christ to benefit the whole world.
Submitted by:
Rev. M. Hartburg, AP |
04/13/06
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 6
V. GOD'S STEWARDS ARE IN
THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF THE WORLD.
God's stewards recognize that the Lord sets them apart from
the world and by the transforming power of the Gospel sends them
into the world to live out the Gospel.
Submitted by:
Rev. M. Hartburg, AP
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May/Jun '06
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 7
VI. GOD'S STEWARDS ARE LOVED AND LOVING.
God's stewards recognize that their
stewardship flows out of God's act of love for them in Christ
which empowers them, in turn, to love others in acts of
Christ-like love.
Submitted by:
Rev. M. Hartburg, AP
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Jul/Aug '06
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 8
VII. GOD'S STEWARDS ARE SERVED AND SERVING.
God’s stewards recognize that taking care of and using God's
gifts to them (stewardship) involves a Gospel-powered style of
life that is demonstrated as we serve others no matter where we
are or whom we are with.
Submitted by:
Rev. M. Hartburg, AP
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Posted Sept '06
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Stewardship
Bulletin # 9
VIII.
GOD'S STEWARDS LIVE WITH AN AWARENESS
OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE, OF TIME AND ETERNITY.
God's stewards live intentionally in the light of the
Lord's eternal purpose while being firmly committed to the here
and now.
Submitted by:
Rev. M. Hartburg, AP
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| Oct '06 |
Echo God's Love
- Click to link to this East District Stewardship Initiative.
Many downloadable files. Register your congregation
for this initiative to receive a monthly Stewardship newsletter
plus additional materials. |
| 03/29/07 |
Recycling Ideas:
The Freecycle Network (in Canada) (a secular
organization)
Before you buy. and before you throw away...Keep you unwanted
stuff out of the dump...stop being a pack-rat because unwanted
things are "waiting for a good home"...ask, and ye might just
receive... The FreeCycle network is a way to offer or request
free items in your community, in order to keep things out of the
dump as much as possible. There are FreeCycle groups almost
everywhere in Canada. It can also be useful when seeking common
items at no cost for special social ministry needs (posting "for
church helping someone out" often helps).
Submitted by:
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| 03/29/07 |
Recycling Ideas:
The Lutheran Book Free Recycle Group
This is an email group about keeping books out of the landfills,
and passing them on to people who can use them. Post offers or
requests, and if someone's extra matches someone else's need,
just exchange the cost of postage.
Submitted by: Rev. David Milette
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| 03/29/07 |
A Pledging System:
I Never Pledge,
TimeTalent Pledge,
Pledge Letter
Developed for use at Living Faith-Orangeville and Holy
Trinity-Bradford, the links will take you to an introductory
letter, a short piece entitled, "I Never Pledge" and a
Time-Talent survey.
Submitted by: Rev. Robert Bruer
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