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2. 1 A Stewardship Prayer Lord of all Creation, We praise and thank You for everything we are. All we have is Your gift to us. Through Your love for us, You gave us the greatest gift of all: Jesus Christ. Filled with Your love, we respond to Your call to be disciples of Your Son. Unite us as a community of Your disciples. Open our hearts and minds to Your abundant grace so that we might become good stewards of Your gifts. As stewards, teach us to receive Your gifts gratefully, nurture them responsibly, share them generously, and return them to You with increase, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. CONSIDER REPLACING WITH A TIME MANAGEMENT Prayer 2

3. Objectives  Find Balance in Our Lives as Busy Catholics  Learn a Process for Turning Our Life Objectives into Practical Plans  Deepen Our Understanding of Stewardship  Create a Concrete Plan for Praying, Serving and Giving as a Way of Life Today’s Agenda Urgent vs. Important Achieving Balance Between Roles The Three Legs of Stewardship The Weekly Planning Process Making Commitments Adjourn 3

4. Discussion: What Gets in the Way of Achieving Balance? “Urgent” vs. “Important” 4

5. SOURCE: Stephen R. Covey, First Things First I IV II III Not So Urgent Not So Important Urgent Important AND Urgent Urgent, but Not Important Important, but Not Urgent Neither Important Nor Urgent 5

6. Exercise: Your Roles – Choose 4-6 Faith Based Role(s) Catholic, Steward, Parishioner, Church Leader Key Family Role(s) Parent, Spouse, Sibling, Son/Daughter Professional Manager, Trainer, Worker, Doctor, Student Key Relationships Friend, Coach, Teacher, Mentor Other Key Commitments PTA President, Football coach, Activist, Committee Chair 6

7. Introduce the Model Father Son Holy Spirit Sends the Prays to Gives grace Inspires charity St. Joseph’s Answer to the “HOW?” of Stewardship: TimeTalentTreasure 7

8. The First Leg: Prayer Setting the Stage “Beware your thoughts, for they become words. Beware your words, for they become actions. Beware your actions, for they become habits. Beware your habits, for they become character. And beware your character, for it becomes your destiny.” -Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher Turn our thoughts to GOD, so that He might guide our DESTINY. 8

9. The Second Leg: Service Finding a Fit Discerning your unique gifts God gave them to you to USE for GOOD Designing ways to use them for the benefit of those in need Determining a specific Goal Doing the thing Repeat 9

10. It’s Simple: Build a Budget Make it a shared experience Push together…plan sacrifices! “Where do we want to give? To whom? Why?” THEN, treat it like a SPENDING SPREE OF GIVING Let’s transform our Parish’s giving experience into a JOYFUL RESPONSE to God’s blessings! The Third Leg: Managing God’s Wealth All you ARE and all you HAVE are gifts from God We don’t OWN anything – It belongs to God! Circulating material wealth 10

11. Planning Your Giving Makes Giving More Joyful! Giving Opportunities20152016 GIVING BUDGET:$$ Weekly Offertory$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ Spending Spree Fund!$$ SacrificeValue $ per Week/ Month/Year $ per Week/ Month/Year $ per Week/ Month/Year $ per Week/ Month/Year 11

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13. The Three Legs of Stewardship  Stewardship ACTS are ACTS OF _____________________.  These acts _______ God. 13

14. Exercise: 20 Minutes Outlining Each Speech How you want to be described as a SPOUSE… How you want to be described as a PARENT… How you want to be described as a FRIEND… How you want to be described as a CATHOLIC STEWARD ? 1. In terms of Prayer 2. In terms of Service 3. In terms of Material Giving 14 SOURCE: Stephen R. Covey, First Things First

15. Exercise: Your 90 th Birthday 15 SOURCE: Stephen R. Covey, First Things First

16. The Key Scheduling the Important Things Put you “Big Rocks” in FIRST If you are schedule driven, put GOD on your schedule If you are goal driven, put GOD in your goals If you are budget driven, put GOD in your budget 16 SOURCE: Stephen R. Covey, First Things First

17. The Weekly Planning Process Every Week, Same Time and Place: 10-30 Minutes – Alone Gather together your Calendar, To Do List, Roles and Birthday Speeches… 1. Pray 2. Plan A. Insert appointments/time sensitive items B. Schedule time to achieve weekly goals for every role Parent, Spouse, Friend, Professional, Catholic Steward (Prayer, Service, Financial) What can I do THIS WEEK that will get me closer to my vision for myself in each of these Roles? Not enough time? Work harder to eliminate Quadrant III and IV stuff! 3. Protect: Live Your Faith Move your rocks around, but never give one up 17

18. Dentist Appt Accountant PTA Mtg Garage Sale Lunch Meeting Patti’s Bday Dinner Car Pool Cat to Vet Mass Car Pool Adoration Donut Duty Date Night Planting Garden with Sally Career Planning Mtg      EXAMPLE 18

19. Early AM Eve SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISAT PRAY… PLAN … PROTECT. 19

20. SOURCE: Stephen R. Covey, First Things First I IV II III 20

21. The Five Verbs  Balance your roles and your 3-legged stool.  Plan weekly. Put Quadrant 2 first.  Pray. Connect to God and let Him work through you.  Serve. Find ways to use your unique abilities to glorify God.  Give. Plan it. Make sacrifices. Enjoy it! Finally… Let’s Commit to One Another What was your most important “Ah HA!” moment of this session? Name one thing you will do (or do differently) as a result of today’s class. With WHOM will you share what you learned today? 21

22. Goodbye! 22