Your Stewardship Committee continues diving into what it means to “Be a GOOD Steward” by putting our focus for this second season of stewardship into how we can best offer with joy and thanksgiving, our time. To offer our time in a faith context means realizing that our time on this earth is short and valuable. We are called to use our time for our own spiritual gain and to extend God’s love to others.

Time is in short supply today; in spite of the many labor-saving devices we have at our disposal. But our time is one of the greatest things we can give to the furtherance of the Gospel. The amount of time we dedicate to something portrays our hearts. It has been said that you can look at someone’s calendar and know where their heart is. Makes you stop and think for a moment, doesn’t it? If our time is limited and valuable, it is something we should not waste. We think all of us can come up with a list of timewasters that we might want to limit or curtail in our lives to make better use of the time that has been given to us.

In this season as we contemplate our time, we ask that you think about how we can offer with joy and thanksgiving this precious gift of our time. We can sign up, volunteer or serve in many ways in and out of our church as we become the “human hands” of Calvary and “the salt of the earth” described in Matthew 5:13. Maybe we are working on a committee. Maybe we are sitting with someone who needs someone to listen to them. Maybe our use of our time for service is an example to others. Let’s also make sure that whenever we are giving our time, we do so cheerfully and for the Lord.

We would enjoy hearing how YOU take care of this gift from God.