stewardship Archives

Love Offering — Life Offering

Posted October 29th, 2020

Jesus points to a widow who gives out of love. She did not seem embarrassed about a small gift, nor did it prevent her from giving.

The spirituality of pledging: Praying our way into 2021

Posted October 23rd, 2020

During this stewardship season in the midst of a pandemic and racial unrest, we should pray for God’s guidance in making our pledges for 2021.

Presbyterian Mission Agency Board looks back and gazes ahead

Posted October 7th, 2020

What has the Presbyterian Mission Agency been up to? What’s it going to be up to? What might get in the way of progress?

Hive of hardworking honeybees poisoned in Florida church’s mission garden

Posted October 1st, 2020

It’s been only a few months since Covenant Presbyterian Church in Fort Myers, Florida, worked with a professional beekeeper to relocate a couple of well-established bee colonies from an old rotten tree on the property. The bees were successfully moved to side-by-side hives in the church’s Together We Grow Mission Garden.

Family, often the best teacher, can drive home environmental truths

Posted September 29th, 2020

Author, entrepreneur, election reform advocate and candidate for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams can now add another title to her impressive résumé: Festival of Homiletics lecturer.

Despite the pandemic, churches find they’re maintaining ecclesial health

Posted July 21st, 2020

The coronavirus has inflicted any number of health crises on Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations — but in some tangible ways it’s also enhanced their ecclesial health.

Stewardship in a pandemic

Posted July 20th, 2020

By mid-March, COVID-19 began changing the way the world interacts, and the church was not immune to those changes. Amid social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, many churches either canceled worship or moved to a virtual form of worship. Pastors and sessions looked for creative ways to worship and to care for the most vulnerable church members in a quickly changing landscape. But what about financial stewardship during such a time as a pandemic – or any other event that would interrupt traditional modes of being the church?

Stewardship in a pandemic

Posted April 20th, 2020

Churches have an opportunity to be creative and proactive in their financial stewardship during the coronavirus pandemic.

Share your CARES money (if you can)

Posted April 17th, 2020

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is giving most Americans a stimulus check that the U.S. Treasury says should be directly deposited in many bank accounts starting this week. As this money arrives, many people are beginning to think about how they will spend it — and I want to invite you to #ShareYourCares, if you can.

Understanding why you give changes how you give

Posted March 18th, 2020

A simple journaling exercise can help people become more joyous and generous when it comes to their giving.