One-Minute Stewardship

Charles Cloughen Jr

Description

A collection of meditations on the importance of stewardship.

Much has changed in the 21st-century world of stewardship. Now a person may use electronic funds transfer or use a credit card after clicking on a website link instead of dropping a check in the offering plate. Stewardship witness videos can be linked to the church’s website. One-Minute Stewardship is designed to promote the development of a meaningful theology of giving in a new age. These short reflections, indexed by Scripture, theme, event, and lectionary, can be included in weekly parish e-mails, newsletters, weekly bulletins, or read as an invitation to the offering during worship. The book addresses the issue of designated giving, which is usually separate from general stewardship appeals and is designed to empower clergy and lay leaders to promote the message of good stewardship every Sunday of the year.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Living
• Philosophie et théologie
• Giving
• Stewardship

Informations

• Publié par: Church Publishing Incorporated
• Date de parution: 17 juin 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781640650091
• Langue: English

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ONE-MINUTE
Stewardship
ONE-MINUTE
Stewardship
Creative Ways to Talk about Money in Church

Charles Cloughen Jr.
Copyright © 2018 by Charles Cloughen Jr.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher, except the one-minute meditations and then only by the local congregation for its own use in a bulletin, weekly or monthly e-mail, or in a print newsletter.
Unless otherwise noted, the Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
All meditations not otherwise credited were written by the Rev. Charles E. Cloughen Jr.
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Cover design by Jennifer Kopec, 2Pug Design Typeset by PerfecType, Nashville, TN
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cloughen, Charles, author.
Title: One-minute stewardship : creative ways to talk about money in church /
Charles Cloughen Jr.
Description: New York : Church Publishing, 2018. Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000863 (print) LCCN 2018015088 (ebook) ISBN 9781640650091 (ebook) ISBN 9781640650084 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Christian giving.
Classification: LCC BV772 (ebook) LCC BV772 .C568 2018 (print) DDC 248/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000863
ISBN-13: 978-1-64065-008-4 (pbk.) ISBN-13: 978-1-64065-009-1 (ebook)
Printed in Canada
Contents


Acknowledgments
Contributing Authors
Foreword by The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
Introduction
Terminology
Section I Theology of Stewardship
Section II Ultimate Stewardship: Don t Leave a Mess
Section III How to Construct Your Own Stewardship Meditations and Use Them to Encourage Generous Giving
Section IV Stewardship Meditations
Section V Giving Meditations
Section VI Special Occasion Meditations
Section VII Planned Giving Meditations
Bibliography
Indexes
Contributing Authors
Acknowledgments


T hank you, thank you, thank you to all who assisted in making this book possible. It would not have been published without the hard work and help of:
The Rev. Elizabeth Masterson, who supported me in writing this book. She was my primary editor and helped with formatting the meditations, rewriting my Theology of Stewardship, and patiently encouraging me along my journey. Without her this book would not have been possible.
Mr. Milton Brasher-Cunningham, my editor at Church Publishing who has worked with me to make this book a reality. Without his help this book would not have been published.
Bishop Eugene Sutton, who has written the foreword, and who invited me to become the Director of Planned Giving, Stewardship, and Development in 2009. His support has been unwavering in my work.
My beloved wife, Judy, who encouraged and supported me in my ministry for some thirty years, and who entered eternal life on January 10, 2014.
My children, Chad, Tamara, Teresa, and Wendy, who have emotionally supported me in my writing of this book.
Mr. James Murphy and Mr. Ken Quigley, who have supported my work in planned giving in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
Ms. Pamela Wesley, director of advancement at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, who mentored me for some eight years in the importance of personal relationships in stewardship.
All those who wrote the meditations on giving, stewardship, church year, special occasions, and planned giving that are a centerpiece of this book.
I want to thank the following persons who have inspired, nurtured, and taught me the essence of stewardship as well as the value of personal relationships these past forty-eight years- Thank you, thank you, thank you:
The Rev. James Annand
Adam Barner
Mary Blair
The Very Rev. Rob Boulter
James Byers
Oscar Carr
Thomas Carson
Charles and Anna Cloughen
The Rev. Roy Cole
The Rev. Canon David Crockett
Hugh Davies
Tom Gossen
Kathy Grayson
Phoebe Griswold
Jason Hoffman
Glenn Holliman
The Rev. Halsey Dewolf Howe
Elizabeth Huntress
The Rt. Rev. Robert Ihloff
The Rev. Frederick Jellison
The Rev. Laurel Johnson
The Rt. Rev. Charles Longest
Anne Lynn
The Rev. Michael Mayor
William McClintock
Frederick Osborn
The Rev. Terry Parsons
The Rev. Kenneth Phelps
The. Rt. Rev. John Rabb
The Rev. Ronald Reed
The Rev. George Regas
Robert (BO) Rice
Frank Robinson
The Rev. Austin Schildwachter
Dowell Schwartz
Sharon Tillman
Charles Wilson
My thanks to the vestries and parishioners where I served my ministry and learned through experience the practice of stewardship.
St. Martin s Church, Providence, Rhode Island
St. Matthew s Church, Jamestown, Rhode Island
St. John s Church, Waterbury, Connecticut
St. Andrew s Church, Pasadena, Maryland
St. Thomas Church, Towson, Maryland
And the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
Contributing Authors


The Rev. Stacy Alan
Chaplain, Brent House, the Episcopal Center at the University of Chicago
The Rev. Melvin Amerson
The Methodist Foundation, Austin, TX
Pastor Hilarion Arenas
Tarija, Bolivia, with Five Talents USA
Mr. Brian Joseph Backe
Senior Director for U.S. Programs and Resource for Catholic Relief Services
The Rev. Jane R. Bearden, STM, Hon.rt.
The Presbytery of Baltimore, MD
The Rev. Dr. William L. Bearden, Hon.rt.
The Presbytery of Baltimore, MD
Ms. Amanda Beyer
Senior Program Officer, Episcopal Migration Ministries
Dr. Mary Blair
Chair, Stewardship Team, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore, MD
The Rt. Rev. Joe Goodwin Burnett
Tenth Bishop of Nebraska, 2003-2011
Mr. Jerry Campbell
Capital Campaign Consultant, Episcopal Church Foundation
The Very Rev. Stephen Carlsen
Dean and Rector, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN
The Rev. Suzanne M. Culhane
Canon for Stewardship, Diocese of Long Island
The Rev. Mary Davisson
Executive Director/Port Chaplain, Baltimore International Seafarers Center
Ms. W. Lee Dickson
Executive Director, Godly Play Foundation, Inc.
The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Mr. Rick Felton
The Episcopal Network for Stewardship
The Rev. Canon Scott Gunn
Executive Director, Forward Movement, Cincinnati, OH
The Rev. Canon Jan Hamill
Director, Episcopal Service Corps, Maryland
The Rev. Dr. Thomas John Hastings
Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT
Ms. Constance Hegarty
Retired Organist and Choir Director, Windsor Locks, CT
The Rt. Rev. Robert W. Ihloff Bishop of Maryland, Retired
Ms. Heather Joseph
Senior Program Manager, Foundation Programs, Episcopal Migration Ministries
The Rt. Rev. Chilton R. Knudsen
Assistant Bishop of Maryland
The Rev. Canon Charles LaFond
Canon Steward, St. John s Cathedral, Denver, CO
The Rev. Dr. James B. Lemler
Rector, Christ Church, Greenwich, CT
The Rev. Kristen Looney
Director of Partnerships, Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, Washington, DC
Ms. Anne K. Lynn
President, American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem
The Rev. Elizabeth Rust Masterson
Rector (retired), St. Nicholas Church, Newark, DE
The Rev. Jeff McKnight
Board Member, Five Talents, USA
Mr. James W. N. Murphy, CFRE
Managing Program Director, Financial Resources, Episcopal Church Foundation
Mr. Jim Oakes
CEO, Five Talents USA
The Rev. Dr. Daniel L. Ogden
Retired Pastor, Reformed Church in America
The Rev. Stephen Parker
Author, Bridges: Embracing Faith and Science , retired Chaplain, Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT
Ms. Julia Pearson
Canon for Evangelism, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore, MD
Mr. Will Putz
Director of Development, Five Talents USA
Mr. Kenneth H. Quigley
Senior Program Director, Endowment Management Solutions, Episcopal Church Foundation
The Rt. Rev. John L. Rabb
Bishop Suffragan (retired), Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
Mr. Robert W. Radtke
President, Episcopal Relief and Development, New York, NY
The Rev. David A. Rash
Stewardship Matters, Virginia
Mr. Robert B. Rice
Principal and Managing Director, CCS Fundraising
The Rt. Rev. Gregory H. Rickel Bishop, Diocese of Olympia
Ms. Kate Riley
Diocesan Youth Missioner, The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
The Rev. C. K. Robertson, PhD
Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Ministry Beyond the Episcopal Church
The Rev. Margarita Santana
Canon for Latino Ministry, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
The Rev. Regan M. Schutz
Director of Communications and Development, Godly Play Foundation, Sewanee, TN
Mr. Greg Sharkey
Senior Philanthropy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
The Rev. Dr. J. Barrie Shepherd
Minister Emeritus of historic First Presbyterian Church, New York, NY
The Rev. Dr. Laura Sheridan-Campbell
Vicar, Holy Cross Church, Carlsbad, CA
Ms. Julie Simonton
Officer for Congregational Development and Stewardship, The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton
Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
Ms. Betty Symington
Executive Director, ERICA-Episcopal Refuge and Immigrant Center Alliance, Baltimore, MD
The Rev. Daniel Webster
Canon for Evangelism and Media, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
The Rev. Fred Weimert
Vice President of the Board, Central Maryland Ecumenical Council
The Rt. Rev. Carl Walter Wright
VII Bishop Suffragan for the Armed Forces and Federal Ministries
Foreword


I was honored when the Rev. Charles Cloughen asked me to write the foreword to this new book, One-Minute Stewardship: Creative Ways to Talk about Money in Church. Eight years ago I asked him to lead the Diocese of Maryland s efforts to raise money to fund our growing mission initiatives. Le