Stewardship Archives - St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Weekly Update for December 2

Hi Folks. Here is some news for the week! CANCELLED – 2020 COOKIE DRIVE THRU Due to the increased community spread of COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. St. Peter’s December 12 Cookie Drive-Thru needs more cookie bakers! Since we can’t badger you at church with sign-up sheets, please use this link to sign up,…

Weekly Update for November 25

Hi Folks. Here is some news for the week! 2020 COOKIE DRIVE THRU IS ON! St. Peter’s Cookie Drive-Thru needs more cookie bakers! Since we can’t badger you at church with sign-up sheets, please use this link to sign up, or call the church office. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4aaeab2ba0fe3-bakers. Please use just your name-no numbers or comments. Sign…

Weekly Update for November 18

Hi Folks. Here is some news for the week. FALL STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN By now you should have received your Fall Stewardship Packet in the mail. Your Stewardship Committee encourages you to review the materials, spend some time in prayer and reflection, and return your Financial Support Pledge card and Time & Talent form to the…

Welcome the Mussers

This is an exciting time for St. Peter’s! Church leadership has spent the past several months discerning the direction in which we think the Lord is calling us, that we might fulfill, even more deeply and faithfully, our vision through a mission campaign. In order to consider launching a campaign, it is important for leadership…

Hope in the Face of Cockroaches

Can anyone see what this is? Right! It’s a cockroach … (toss it to a parishioner) … not a real one, of course. In sharing it with you, I am letting you in on a secret ritual that your worship staff engages in each week. Yes, when your rostered leaders gather to start planning for…

Time, Talents, Treasure

This is a time of year when we start to think about our time, talents, and treasures. We make plans for how we will meet our remaining financial commitments for the year and we consider our commitments for the coming year. In a way the money side of stewardship is easy to figure out. We…

Wants, needs, and the path to contentment

There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and…

Wanted: Brains, Wit, Grit, And Stamina

Traditional Sermon Pentecost 15 Folks I gotta tell you something that you may not know about me. There’s something I really, really don’t like. Okay…let’s be honest…I kind of detest. My list of “Things I detest” used to be pretty long. As a kid I detested a lot of food that would be classified as…

Pentecost 15 Preview

“And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.” -Luke 16:8 Today’s Bible readings include some nervous seat-shifting scripture. A few warnings from the prophet Amos get our attention, but our…

Deceived by ‘the lie of more’

And Jesus said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’ Luke 12:15 “The Andersons” looked uncomfortable as they explained why they couldn’t give more. “We’d like to,” Mrs. Anderson said, “but we’re getting killed with bills.” Mr. Anderson…