Our 2025 Stewardship Campaign theme is Walk in Love. Walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. In the coming weeks, the bulletin insert will include brief reflections based upon a portion of one of the Sunday readings. Please use these in your private devotional time as you prayerfully consider how your walk in love will be made manifest in 2025 through your gifts of time, talent, and treasure to the ministry and mission of God in this parish.

“Who is wise and understanding among you?”

John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us.”

When I was young, some unknown people were for me. I was not one of theirs, not a Baptist, not a member of their congregation, but that did not matter. Some unknown people provided a way for me to know the love of God. We are called to walk in love as Christ loved us in a selfless and sacrificial way. As we reflect upon that call and how others have been Christ-like for us, we also prayerfully consider how we in turn will use our gifts of time, talent, and treasure to be for others in this faith community and beyond our walls.