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The Stewardship Board promotes the development of good stewardship and giving patterns among the members of Saint John’s.
The image "Coin in Sand" is used by permission of Mark Normand and Stock.Xchng.
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The IRA Charitable Rollover, which was first enacted on August 17, 2006, as part of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, has been reinstated for 2011. The IRA Charitable Rollover permits taxpayers age 70½ and older, who are required to make annual distributions from their IRAs, to designate up to $100,000 of those distributions directly to charitable organizations without counting them as part of their AGI and, consequently, without paying taxes on them.
Charitable contributions from an IRA must go directly to a public charity. Distributions must be made directly from the IRA trustee, payable to, for example, Saint John’s Foundation. In order to benefit from the tax-free treatment, donors must obtain written notice of each IRA rollover contribution from each charity. Distributions can only be made from traditional or Roth IRAs. |
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God’s stewards are managers, not owners! God’s stewards are given the privilege to manage the resources He has so richly orchestrated for each of us. We have been entrusted with these godly gifts. Whether great or small, they are meant to be shared. We are not solo performers; rather we are empowered by God to be a giving congregation and Christian family.
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The four Sundays in February are in the Epiphany season of the Church Year calendar. Epiphany is a word that means “showing forth” or “manifesting.” The Epiphany season begins on January 6 with the visit of the Wise Men to worship the Baby Jesus as the newborn King of the Jews. The season continues with the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, the calling of His first disciples, His preaching the good news of salvation and the opening of His famous Sermon on the Mount. In the four Gospel readings for February we find Jesus teaching that we are lights in this spiritually dark world who give evidence of our new birth as Christians as we love even our enemies and seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. To live that way is truly an “epiphany experience,” showing that we really belong to our Lord Jesus Christ and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, live renewed lives.
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“Maturing stewards make the most of new starts.”
St. Paul wrote the following words in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” What a marvelous thought for Christian stewards entering into a New Year.
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The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod adopted eight Stewardship principles at its 1998 national convention. These principles reflect a definition of stewardship commonly used throughout the LCMS. Each principle stands alone as an important guide for the church, yet all eight principles stand together as a summary of how we live our lives of stewardship.
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December is a month of giving and receiving. It all started with God’s greatest gift of sending His only-begotten Son on that first Christmas to be our Savior and Lord. John 3:16 says it so clearly: “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” The Apostle John states in his first letter: “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1b)
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