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"The Trinity of Our Lives" Provides Focus for Stewardship in October

We say "Stewardship is everything we do after we say 'I believe,'" and so we mean it is a 24/7, 365 days a year process. This October, however, we take a fresh look at what stewardship really means in our lives here at All Saints.

Stewardship means, most obviously, giving of our time, talent and money to keep this blessed community alive. You will receive a stewardship brochure with a pledge form in the mail in late September. It enables you to promise to give a certain amount of your time, talent and money to All Saints over the course of 2006. Through giving our time and talent, we sustain and enhance the ministries of the church. Through our regular payment of financial pledges, we support the clergy and staff who lead and support us, and pay for the utilities and other annual operating expenses that enable us to witness to God's kingdom on the corner of Beacon and Dean, and extend that witness to the wider world through our diocesan pledge and other forms of outreach.

Stewardship is all about our response to God. The blessed community that is All Saints Parish addresses three aspects of our relationship with God - they represent our own Trinity, the "Trinity of Our Lives":

  • First, the spiritual, or our inner world, sustained by worship and opportunities for healing, study, contemplation and prayer. - the Father/Mother/Creator.
  • Second, the community of this church, and our relationships with others here , our discipleships, our social and educational programs for all ages - the Son, the Head of the Church.
  • Third, the wider world we go into from here, fulfilling our promise as Christians to work towards the building of God's kingdom - the Holy Spirit, which reaches into every corner of the world.

This Trinity is the focus of our look at stewardship this year. During worship each week in October, we will explore and celebrate these three aspects of our lives at All Saints, reflecting on their relation to stewardship.

  • October 1 & 2 - Overview and slide show.
  • October 8 & 9 - God the Father/Mother/Creator: the inner spiritual world.
  • October 15 & 16 - God the Son, the Head of the Church/Children's Sabbath: the community of this church.
  • October 22 & 23 - God the Holy Spirit: the world beyond the church. The extraordinary Christian theatrical troupe, Friends of the Groom, will be here to help. Information about their visit can be found elsewhere in Saints Alive!
  • October 29 & 30 - Gift Sunday, the day when we present our pledges of time, talent and money at the altar, giving back to God out of the gifts we have received.

More information about fall plans will be available from the Stewardship Committee. Watch for details in This Week at All Saints and here at www.allsaintsbrookline.org.

 

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