TIME TALENT TREASURE Stewardship Prayer Almighty and ever-faithful Lord, Gratefully acknowledging Your mercy and humbly admitting our need, we pledge our trust in You and each other. Filled with desire, we respond to Your call for discipleship by shaping our lives in imitation of Christ. We profess that the call requires us to be stewards of Your gifts. As stewards, we receive Your gifts gratefully, cherish and tend them in a responsible manner, share them in practice and love with others, and return them with increase to the Lord. We pledge to our ongoing formation as stewards and our responsibility to call others to that same endeavor. Almighty and ever-faithful God, it is our fervent hope and prayer that You who have begun this good work in us will bring it to fulfillment in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen

Fostering Stewardship as a Way of Life

TIME TALENT TREASURE Fostering Stewardship as a Way of Life 3 What shall we give back to God from all the gifts we have received? “Do I truly ‘own’ the values of gratitude, accountability, generous sharing and the willingness to give back to the Lord with increase?” + Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy

TIME TALENT TREASURE Our Mission… Place God First in All Things Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ Grow in Holiness through Prayer, Sacraments and Service St Michael Parish 4

TIME TALENT TREASURE Faith – St Michael Parish Values 5 committed, love Witnessing and Evangelizing –sharing faith, teaching, learning, conversion, transformation Community –welcoming, accepting, rooted Love –Respectful, caring, forgiving, reconciling Stewardship –time, talent and treasure, serving

TIME TALENT TREASURE Like other assets, our time is freely given by God Our talents and special abilities come from God We have been entrusted with the stewardship of many treasures including our bodies, our minds and our opportunities 6 Stewardship is Discipleship

TIME TALENT TREASURE Nurture Deliberate Receive 7 Our Time, Our Talent, Our Treasure Quality

TIME TALENT TREASURE Called Exercise 8 Our Time, Our Talent, Our Treasure Glorify Serve Giving

TIME TALENT TREASURE Giving God is the giver of all things 9 Our Time, Our Talent, Our Treasure Devotion Glorifies Awareness

TIME TALENT TREASURE 10 Stewardship is faithfully using all that God gives us for His Glory – being a Partner in the Mission

TIME TALENT TREASURE Partner in the Mission attends and participates personal spiritual growth discern and commit financially supports

TIME TALENT TREASURE Our Journey to Becoming a Stewardship Parish In 1986, adopted Sacrificial Giving In 1994, Funded Westside Chapel Phase II primarily through Sacrificial Giving – the Treasure side of Stewardship In 1999, began responding annually to the call of Stewardship with time, talent and treasure In 2000 new Mission and Values Statements and Capital Facilities Task Force In 2006, Faith Raising Campaign In 2009, introduced Living Your Strengths and Growing an Engaged Church In 2010-Present, ME25 surveys 12

TIME TALENT TREASURE St. Michael Parish’s Goals for Stewardship of Treasure :  Tithe 10% of our income to needs outside the parish  Fund 100% of our infrastructure and ministries including the ministry of St. Michael School Our Stewardship Parish 13

TIME TALENT TREASURE 14 How We Are Doing We Tithe 13.3% Local State National International Pastor Discretion Parish Ministries & Infrastructure Funds Received from Stewardship of Treasure

TIME TALENT TREASURE “A commitment to stewardship changes the way we live. It is a practical but also very profound awareness that, by ourselves, we are not the source of our own lives, of the freedoms we possess, or even of the material goods that we work for. Our most precious possessions have all been given to us as gifts to be nourished, cared for in responsible ways and freely shared with others.” Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy 15

TIME TALENT TREASURE We will grow daily in our faith through prayer, sacraments and service We will appoint Parish Leaders from parishioners who are active Partners in the Mission We will foster our children’s formation in Stewardship as a Way of Life We will gather in prayer as a community and in small faith sharing groups We will offer Living Your Strengths workshops as an opportunity to identify, understand, accept, embrace and use our God-given talents Our Commitment 16

TIME TALENT TREASURE We will assure that 80% of our parishioners will have participated in Financial Peace University by 2015 We will continue to tithe at least 10% of our parish income to needs outside the parish community We will fund 100% of our ministries and infrastructure through our members’ Stewardship of Treasure We will fund St. Michael School tuition through Stewardship of Treasure Our Commitment 17

TIME TALENT TREASURE Stewardship as a Way of Life through our Time, Talent and Treasure "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me Go, therefore, and make disciples" (Matthew 28:18-19a)