Stewardship Goals at the Church of the Good Shepherd

1. Stewardship Goals at the Church of the Good Shepherd

2. Topics • What we’re trying to do • Ancient history • Recent history • The Path There • The Coming Year • Stewardship

3. What we’re trying to do • Ancient history • For a long time Good Shepherd was a parish with a half-time Rector and a chronic deficit • Typical attendance on a Sunday 25-35 • Annual deficits $0 - $20000 funded mostly out of small occasional bequests • Few children • Rectors funded for barely enough time to do liturgy and some pastoral care with little time left for long-term strategic planning

4. What we’re trying to do • Recent history • Three years ago the diocese and Good Shepherd came up with a plan to use some of the proceeds of the sale of closed churches (especially St. Andrew’s Belmont) to fund a full-time priest at Good Shepherd • Goal of expanding ministry and membership especially in areas of families and children and community outreach • It worked! Typical attendance 50; pledge income increased from $58,000 in 2009 to a projected $74,000 this year; lots of families and children; lots of community connections.

5. The Path There Expenses Income

6. The Next Year

7. Stewardship • “Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.” 1 Peter 4:10 • Intentional • “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7 • Proportional • “From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required.” Luke 12:48 • Sacrificial • “Everyone shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.” Deuteronomy 16:17 • Biblical standard is the tithe, 10% • “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.” Leviticus 27:30