Sharing Your Love of Christ by Diane LaFontaine

When I was asked to represent Stewardship on St. Luke’s Council, I thought “What?! I don’t know anything about stewardship.” The more I thought about it and prayed about it, I realized that I did know something about stewardship and I could support that ministry on Council. I think our lives are all about stewardship.
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We are stewards of God’s creation through our rain garden and taking care of our property.

We are stewards of our beautiful building by continuing to maintain and improve the property. This allows us to host events like voting and blood drives, VBS and Trunk or Treat, organizations like Learning Tree, Angelica Cantanti, and 12 step groups that use our building.

We steward our homes by taking care of them.​

We steward our time with work, volunteering, family activities, rest and relaxation.
St. Luke’s as a collective stewards of our time, our talents, and our money. Here’s a list of some but not all the things:

· Exodus Lending
· Wednesday night meal
· Volunteer and donate to Feed My Starving Children
· Fisher House
· Loaves and Fishes
· Meals on Wheels
· Make sandwiches for The Sandwich Project
· VEAP
· Ebenezer Glenn Orphanage
· Oasis for Youth donating clothing and monetary gifts.
· Knitting ministry
· Quilt recipients: Lutheran Social Service, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Lutheran Disaster Response
· Care Team visiting our homebound members
· and more…

I think it’s exciting to be part of a church that cares so much about the needs of others and are actually doing something about it!

Because of our online presence, anyone anywhere in the world can join us for worship and participate in many of these ministries.

So, here’s the deal. I hope you're feeling grateful for this amazing church. If you aren’t involved in some way, please get involved. You can help with property, Wednesday Night Church meals, Tech Team, and our many ministries, join the knitters, altar guild, oh! join me for stewardship!

We are encouraged to steward our resources. If you’re living paycheck to paycheck, worried about saving for a child’s college or your retirement, a new car or down payment on a house, I invite you to attend the Financial Purpose class here in January. It’s just 4 sessions and we’ll learn how to become debt free, have savings for the future, and give cheerfully. It’s made a huge difference in my financial life and I’ll be glad to share with you how if you want to speak. It is transformational!

If you’re not currently giving to St. Luke’s, I invite you to start by giving $1 a day.

On Christ the King Sunday, November 23, during worship you will be invited to bring your 2026 Commitment Cards to the baptismal font. I look forward to you joining me, God bless.