Dear All Saints’ Church Family,
I want to begin by thanking each of you for your faithful stewardship and support of the ministries of All Saints’ Church through your time, talents, and treasure.
God has been incredibly good to each of our families and to All Saints’ Church. Walking in obedience to the ministry to which God is calling us costs money. Doing intentional, Holy-Spirit-led outreach to our neighbors to reach them with the gospel costs money. Building and enhancing our community with one another requires utilization of resources.
We are blessed with wonderful facilities. However, our building is now 15 years old. There are sacrifices that are necessary to replace or repair essential equipment in our house of worship which is also a spiritual hospital and ministry center.
God’s design is that the work of his kingdom is financially supported by the systematic, sacrificial giving of his people from the abundant supply with which God has blessed us.
In 1 Peter 4:10, God’s word teaches, “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” God has richly blessed each of us. All stewardship, including how we order our finances, demonstrates our understanding and gratefulness for God’s grace at work in our lives.
Systematic, faithful giving is a personal choice and a spiritual discipline to which God calls us. I invite each of you to join me in prayer, asking God to speak to us and challenge us in our financial pledge for the coming year. For those who already tithe (the biblical tithe is 10 % of our income), may the Lord challenge us to new levels of giving. For those for whom scriptural tithing is new, I pray that this is the year you step out in faith to experience God’s grace and blessing through a new level of obedience to his command.
Please prayerfully review this tithing information and pledge worksheet. As you do this, rejoice together with me in God’s goodness to All Saints’ Church and for the ways he has enabled us to reach our community and the world with God’s love and healing power.
You can submit your financial pledge online here, or by returning the pledge card in your mailing using the addressed envelope included, or during the service on Pledge Sunday, October 25, when we will place our pledge cards on the Lord’s altar.
Pray with me, rejoice in God’s grace and faithfulness with me, and then join together with me in obediently responding with thanksgiving to God’s command and call to us.
Together with you in His service,
Scott+