Dear All, we are working very hard to balance our budget for 2019 and many of you have stepped forward and offered sacrificial gifts to our parish. Thank you. We invite everyone's participation in our efforts, and we count on everyone's support, to live faithfully into our relationship with God, each other, and our community. It is our faith and the future of God's mission here that we are investing in.
If you haven't pledged, please do. There are pledge cards available at church and we will send you one with your year-end contribution statement early next week. Your commitment really helps us with our budgeting.
If you plan to fund our mission financially as you did last year, thank you. Please confirm that with a pledge. If you are able to increase your giving so we can fully fund our ministries through our annual giving, please let us know so we can include your giving in our budget.
Wherever you are in your giving, whatever amount you can offer, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I believe our parish mission and ministry are worth investing in, and I believe only through a balanced budget can we live in the right-relationship with God. Together, we can respond to the abundance offered to us by our loving God by our own generosity offered back to God's ministry and mission among us. As was true for the wise men, may our gifts offered to our parish show Jesus that we are offering the best of ourselves (gold), that we are people of prayer (frankincense), and that we are willing to sacrifice for the mission of God through Jesus (myrrh).
In Christ's love, Mother Barbara