Tag: money
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Asking for Money
It’s “stewardship season” at our tiny church. “Stewardship season” is Christianese for what other voluntary organizations call “the annual fund drive.” Various members get tapped to stand up and say “what stewardship means to me,” hopefully to good and inspiring effect. After three or four weeks of that, plus a couple of letters, we collect […]
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Baptism of the Lord
A record number of members showed up at church on Saturday to help take down the Christmas decorations and re-fit the sanctuary for the Season After Epiphany – namely, wintry and spare. The regulars kept exclaiming “It only took us ONE HOUR” to get everything taken down and packed away and stored in the usual […]
Matters of Interpretation 