Hats Off to our Youth Group

Members, Shane and Lexi Tiffany, Kaitlin Barnes, Alex Pickel, Emma Bayuk, Isabella and Cassandra Klein, and Anne Marie and John Driver were part of a group that picked over 200 lbs of cherries donated from the St. Hilaire Farm and given to seniors in two housing complexes in downtown Kennewick. The seniors were thrilled with the cherries and it was a great way for our kids to give back the the community!

Stewardship in Action

Stewardship Message

“He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick – no food, no sack, no money in their belts.” - Mark 6:8

How different we are from the Apostles who took nothing when they ventured out to serve God?

Today, we make our journey through life more difficult because of all the material baggage that we drag along. Yet, the more we can let go of, the freer we are to serve God with love and joy.

This Week’s Stewardship of Time and Talent Salute

We salute our Perpetual Adoration Chapel Adorers for being so faithful during the year -- especially during the summer vacation months. We know the added graces our parish receives from these prayers help make our parish the wonderful parish it is.

Everyday-Everyway Stewards

Let us pray that we may learn from the Apostles to give up our strong attachment to material possessions.

Our Children’s Stewardship

Use some of these questions at dinner time to help get the conversation headed in the right direction.

• Do all families live as we do?
• Why do we have more than we really need?
• What can we do about the inequity in the world?

Parish Financial Stewardship Summary

Collection for July 5, 2009

Regular:

• 17,084.41 (Needed to make budget ($16,500)

Children’s:

• 8.35

School Endowment

• 548.00

Building Fund Report

5th Campaign Pledges

• $605,937.17

Building Fund Weekly Collection:

• 4,745.67

TOTAL BUILDING FUND TO DATE

Weekly Collections:

• 1,659,245.27

Silver Cans

• 1,643.55

Brown Roofed Churches

• 2,071.35

Memorials

• 18,881.96

Gifts

• 8,681.24

Fundraisers

• 112,754.75

Interest

• 74,588.85

Credit Card Fees

• <8,474.04>

Total Collected

• 1,920,554.94

Stewardship Message

“As the Lord spoke to me, the spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard the one who was speaking say to me, ‘Son of man, I am sending you…’” - Ezekiel 2:2-3

God sends each of us to do some special work for Him. And, He gives us all the talents that we need to do that work. However, do we listen to God when He calls? Do we get up on our feet and give our time to do the work God asks of us? This is the basis for good stewardship.

This Week’s Stewardship of Time and Talent Salute

We salute everyone who helped with Sr. Robert Joseph’s Garden Party. A wonderful time was had by all!

Everyday-Everyway Stewards

Let us pray that, in a spirit of service and sacrifice, we may generously use our time, talent and treasure to do the work which God has placed us here on earth to do.

Our Children’s Stewardship

Use some of these questions at dinner time to help get the conversation headed in the right direction.

• How does giving up something help us draw closer to God?
• How does giving up become gaining?
• Jesus often ate with people. What do suppose they talked about when they ate together?

Financial Stewardship

Collection for June 28, 2009

Regular:

• 13,480.13
  (Needed to make budget ($16,500)
• Children’s: 6.00
• School Endowment 190.50

Building Fund Report

• 5th Campaign Pledges $587,437.17
• Building Fund Weekly Collection: 4,742.83

Stewardship Message

“Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.” - Acts: 9:31

How do we love in deed and truth? The answer is through stewardship – giving some of our time to spend with Our Lord in prayer, giving some of our talents to do ministry in the parish, giving some of our financial blessings to support the work of the Church.

This Week’s Stewardship of Time and Talent Salute

We salute our welcoming committee for working to invite and make our new members feel at home.

Everyday-Everyway Stewards

Let us learn to surrender our own wants and desires to God, trusting that God will always give us all that we need.

Our Children’s Stewardship

Use some of these questions at dinner time to help get the conversation headed in the right direction.

• What is your favorite blessing?
  
• Is your list of blessings different from or the same as the others in your family?
  
• Which of the blessings cost money and which have no relationship with money?
  
• Are you surprised by how God blesses you?
  

Parish Financial Stewardship Summary

Collection for May 3, 2009

Regular: 

• 19,403.36 (Needed to make budget ($16,500)

Children’s: 

• 11.57
  

Easter 

• 20.00
  

School Endowment 

• 441.00
  

Building Fund Report

4th Campaign Pledged 

• $1,491,308.80
  

Building Fund Weekly Collection: 

• $4960.55
  

Stewardship Message

“It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.” - Psalm 118: 8-9

Too often our society trains us to take refuge in man-made riches. Yet Thomas Merton once wrote, “There is no poverty so great as that of the prosperous.” Too many possessions can leave us empty - always questing for more things that do not really matter - while we ignore Our Lord.

This Week’s Stewardship of Time and Talent Salute

We salute everyone who helped with our First Eucharist and Confirmation ceremonies and receptions last weekend.

Everyday-Everyway Stewards

Let us learn to trust more in God’s goodness rather than in the allure of power, money or possessions.