Stewardship Development and
Interpretation Committee

It is the fall season with all of the beautiful colors coming out on the trees. It is also harvest time when we are thankful for all of our blessings and start planning for the coming year.

Yet, we live in uncertain times with major financial troubles both on Main Street and Wall Street, not to mention a divisive presidential election coming up. Because of our commitment to Christ, we have been blessed and called to be stewards in both the best and worst of times.

We encourage you to remember the need for helping people through mission giving on the international, national and local levels. As Presbyterians, we have a connectional church that reaches all of these levels, in addition to supporting our local churches in this Presbytery.

Much like your church, the challenges for the Presbytery have been many this year. The level of support of the Presbytery General Mission has been carefully considered, as we are aware of projected economic pressures. For example, your Council and Presbytery made a difficult but responsible choice regarding executive level staffing.

Still, it is through the Presbytery that we can support our priorities of mission, congregational transformation and evangelism to a higher level than we can as individual churches.

As your Session considers your Presbytery General Mission pledge for 2009, we ask that you make your decision as soon as you can. To the extent that your pledge can be determined and communicated to us as quickly as is feasible, our job of planning and monitoring will be greatly facilitated.

Some bulletin inserts are linked at the right to help you interpret our mission to your members. We don’t know what the coming year will bring but be assured that that your Presbytery mission giving will make a difference.

Thank you for your continuing support of our shared mission, to “Know Christ, Live Christ, and Share Christ.”

Members

Class of 2010

John Davidson
(Webster)

Jack Wheeler
(Irondequoit)

Class of 2011

Rev Walter Stuber

Chair
Rev Thomas Taylor

Ex-Officio Member

Presbyter for Program
Linda Badger Becker

Mission

Membership: 6

Purpose:: At the heart of stewardship ministry is spiritual discipleship and participation in the mission of Christ through the Church. Recognizing that stewardship ministry must include communication and mission interpretation, the purpose of the committee is to promote understanding of the mission of the PCUSA and to inspire generosity among the presbytery’s members and congregations.

The Stewardship Development and Interpretation Committee shall:

Develop and implement a program of direct contact with sessions, congregational committees, and members to learn and dialogue about Presbyterian Church (USA) per capita and mission funding.
Develop and implement an effective system for receiving financial commitments from congregations for PCUSA shared mission funding.
Provide a variety of mission interpretation resources, tools, and opportunities for congregations in order to build greater awareness of the connectional church.