St. Paul’s is excited to announce that you can now manage your giving online! Giving online is easy and allows you to set up automatic recurring contributions and view your complete online giving history from anywhere you have access to the internet.
Consecration Sunday is the first Sunday in October and it is a very important day. It is the Sunday that each of us has the opportunity to express our commitment to the future of St. Paul’s. It is with your financial support that we are able to plan the budget for the next year and continue to provide worship services, pastoral care, spiritual and physical outreach and presence in Needville as well as the surrounding communities. As written in 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 “… whoever sows sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has made up his mind not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
Stewardship is more than giving money. It is also about giving of your time and using your talents to benefit God. When we use our gifts for God’s glory, we are acknowledging that He is the provider and we are expressing our thanks for what He gives to us. There are many ways of expressing thanks to the Lord. We hope that one of the ways that you will say thanks is by your generous giving of time, talents and abilities as a Session member, Trustee or by serving on any of the various committees of St. Paul’s. We read in 1 Peter 4:10 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”
Please prayerfully consider your commitment of financial support as well as how you can share your time and talents for the benefit of St. Paul’s.
Consecration Sunday is the first Sunday in October and it is a very important day. It is the Sunday that each of us has the opportunity to express our commitment to the future of St. Paul’s. It is with your financial support that we are able to plan the budget for the next year and continue to provide worship services, pastoral care, spiritual and physical outreach and presence in Needville as well as the surrounding communities. As written in 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 “… whoever sows sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has made up his mind not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
Stewardship is more than giving money. It is also about giving of your time and using your talents to benefit God. When we use our gifts for God’s glory, we are acknowledging that He is the provider and we are expressing our thanks for what He gives to us. There are many ways of expressing thanks to the Lord. We hope that one of the ways that you will say thanks is by your generous giving of time, talents and abilities as a Session member, Trustee or by serving on any of the various committees of St. Paul’s. We read in 1 Peter 4:10 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”
Please prayerfully consider your commitment of financial support as well as how you can share your time and talents for the benefit of St. Paul’s.
Gracious God, freely we have received of your blessings, so freely we give in return (Matthew 10:8). First, we give ourselves to You, and then we give gratefully, generously, and joyfully (2 Corinthians 8). We share what we have out of gratitude for your grace in Jesus Christ and for those who have gone before us. These men and women of extraordinary commitment laid the foundation of faith and, literally, the foundation and structure of our Fellowship Hall. This, in turn, has provided us with warm, loving, and numerous gatherings, as well as classrooms for Christian learning and growth in our faith.
Now, O Lord, the baton is passed to us for continuing the race to update and renovate for this generation, which will not only serve our members, but also reach out to the community. Help us to be faithful stewards in the challenging endeavor to fulfill this vision for St. Paul’s. Help us truly to search our hearts as we reach deeply and daringly into our pocketbooks, as we are able, to give generously from the first fruits. Through Jesus Christ, the generous, sacrificial Giver, our Lord and Savior, we pray. Amen. |
Almighty and Gracious Father, we are blessed with all the gifts you have given us. You have chosen wonderful people to head up the Leadership Teams for St. Paul’s Fundraising Campaign. Everyone has certain talents, and these talents are used as gifts to accomplish our tasks. For we know, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights.....” (James 1: 17).
Please be with these Leadership Teams to help them realize the gifts they have to offer. We ask you to give them guidance and support as they employ their ideas for the upcoming project we face. We love you and seek you for strength and confidence that we desire in the upcoming months. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. |