Stewardship
is not a program. Stewardship
is not about raising money. Stewardship
is not here today and gone tomorrow.

But…

Stewardship
is a journey.

Stewardship
is about life.

Stewardship
is a way of life.
- The Episcopal Network for Stewardship

Interesting links and articles:

ECUSA Stewardship
The national Episcopal church’s stewardship website. There are great ideas, as well as demographic research.

Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an age-old African term for humaneness – for caring, sharing and being in harmony with all of creation. As an ideal, it promotes co-operation between individuals, cultures and nations.
From God Has a Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu:
“Ubuntu is the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact that my humanity is caught up and inextricably bound up in yours…According to ubuntu, it is not a great good to be successful through being aggressively competitive and succeeding at the expense of others. In the end, our purpose is social and communal harmony and well-being. Ubuntu does not say, ‘I think, therefore I am.’ It says rather: ‘I am human because I belong. I participate. I share.’”

Vestry statement:

We believe that we have been given all things by God, and that giving back a portion of our gifts to God is both Biblical and transformational.

We commit to tithe or work toward tithing.

We invite all members of St. Dunstan’s to join us in making a similar commitment.

Signed, The Vestry of St. Dunstan’s