Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. I Peter 4:10
Stewardship 2022: Refocused on Talents
What do you get when you cross the Parable of the Talents with a Stewardship theme of Planting Seeds? You get spiders ready for adoption or bees ready for change! Oh my! You get members thinking about how to use their gifts.
At Limestone Presbyterian Church, we normally conduct a stewardship focus in the month of October that culminates in the submission of financial pledge cards like many other churches. This year the theme was “Planting Seeds” and is based on the Parable of the Sower. In this story, Jesus tells about a farmer who scatters seeds that end up in a variety of places with a variety of results: along a path where the birds eat the seeds, in a rocky area with very little soil where the plants come up quickly but don’t have good roots, among the thorns where the weeds surpass the plant, and where the seeds fall in good soil that produces an excellent crop. This is, of course, a great parable for teaching about stewardship. But what happens when you add in another parable – the Parable of the Talents. What happens is you get a $20 experiment! READ MORE.


