Last Sunday our church’s Stewardship Committee brought forward the proposed church budget for next year – 2023. Stewardship Chairman, John Richburg, thanked the 34 committees of the church for their careful and prayerful work in planning their anticipated ministries for next year and requesting monetary resources to support those ministries. He also thanked the members of the Stewardship Committee and Todd Phillips, our Church Business Administrator, for their work in compiling and reviewing the budget requests from each committee. For the last two weeks, our church members have viewed and discussed the proposed budget and last Sunday the church voted to approve the budget for 2023.
Our church intentionally brings this matter of business before the church in our Morning Service due to its importance and impact upon the entire church family. We all benefit from God’s financial provision for our church. Further, the stewardship of the financial resources God has graciously given to each church member is a highly spiritual matter. Jesus says, Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matt. 6:21). Our treasures flow to what we value. Since God commands us to love Him with all our heart (Matt. 22:37), giving of our treasures to Him and His work must follow our love for Him. Giving to support the ministry of our home church is one of the expectations of church membership.
As we head for 2023, let us all set our heart to love the Lord fervently and demonstrate our love in the faithful stewardship of God’s financial provisions.
Thank you, Church Family,
Cecil Sanders