St. Francis
Episcopal Church

Father John Williams

1101 Rock Prairie Road
 College Station, TX  77845
DIRECTIONS

(979) 696-1491
email the St. Francis Office
email Father John

---

STEWARDSHIP

Stewardship - a letter from Father John.

Stewardship is most essentially what we do with our lives.

It is pretty simple really - the giving of our lives in response to the ultimate gift of God, his son Jesus the Christ. Stewardship is about community – in the most specific case, about everybody called together into this wonderful St. Francis Family.

Some people wonder if making a financial pledge or estimate of giving really matters. Let me assure you emphatically, it most certainly does. St. Francis obviously is not a wealthy church and it has no endowments. To secure our ministries and to develop new ones we need the giving of persons like you – we rely on everybody!

In this particular aspect of stewardship , we focus on our “treasure” or committing to financially support God’s work at St. Francis. In this approach to stewardship we emphasize Proportional Giving – which means committing to give a specific percentage of income to St. Francis.

While 10% (the Biblical tithe) is a goal, we recognize that you may not feel called or equipped to tithe right now. Proportional Giving allows you to systematically work towards the tithe goal by starting at a lower percentage and increasing my 1% or more each year. (Check out the “Stewardship giving calculator” link, care of the Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church in Illinois)

For a fuller exploration of our approach to Stewardship here at St. Francis, please follow this link to our 2006 Stewardship Booklet which I call Envisioning Faithfulness.