Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Church Biblical Stewardship Program

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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton ChurchBiblical
Stewardship Program
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Background

• We asked Fr. John to answer 2 questions
• Why are we doing this?
• So that God can be Glorified through
• us!
• How are we doing this?
• By Knowing God, Loving God, and
• by Serving God.

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Background

• In the summer of 2005 Bishop Gainer initiated a
  Diocesan wide Stewardship effort. He encouraged
  each Parish to send representatives to a
  Stewardship conference in Hershey, PA. Fr. Wil
  sent Sr. Eileen, Kay Hatton and Donna Farquhar.
• In the fall of 2005, Fr. John met with the group
  who attended the conference in PA and a decision
  was made to form a Stewardship Committee at St.
  Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.

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Background (Continued)

• In January 2006, a Stewardship Committee was
  formed Fr. John shared his vision of Biblical
  Stewardship for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.
• The committee developed a vision statement, role
  description for members, and a gift/qualities
  list for a Stewardship Council.
• Interviews were conducted and in January 2007,
  the first Stewardship Council meeting was held.

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Background (Continued)

• A statement was formulated defining Membership
  Expectations in a Biblical Stewardship Parish,
  and copies were mailed to all registered
  parishioners. The terms Time, Talent and
  Treasure were changed to Prayer, Ministry and
  Finance.
• A subcommittee of the Council researched
  Stewardship programs in other parishes both
  inside and outside the Lexington Diocese.

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Background (Continued)

• In December of 2007, a presentation was made to
  parish leadership committees, by Sarah Moore,
  Development Director at St. Brigid of Kildare
  Parish in Dublin, OH. Their Parish had organized
  a successful Stewardship effort in 1999 and has
  continued to build on their success.
• In January 2008, Fr. John asked for a
  recommendation about moving forward. The
  decision was made to hire a Development Director
  at Seton and move forward with a formalized
  Stewardship effort.

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Role of theDevelopment Director

• Create and Implement a Strategic Development Plan
  for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish.
• The most important aspect of this role is
  building and nurturing relationships with
  parishioners parents of current, former and
  future students local civic and business leaders
  and area residents parish leadership and staff.

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How Did We Identify The Need?

• What statistical information do we have that gave
  us a snapshot of Biblical Stewardship at Saint
  Elizabeth Ann Seton in terms of
• Prayer
• Ministry
• Finance

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What We Learned

• Prayer
• We have 977 registered families in our parish,
  that translates into 3,225 individual members.
• In the 1st quarter of 2008 (calendar year) we
  averaged 1,070 members attending Mass each
  weekend.
• Daily Scripture Readings, we have about 100
  members who request an email of each days
  readings.

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What We Learned

• Prayer (Continued)
• Why Catholic, we have 250 members that are
  participating in this program to deepen their
  faith.
• Eucharistic Adoration, we have 14 members who
  have signed up to be Adorers on Fridays.
• Padre Pio, we have 193 members who participate in
  this Prayer Circle.

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What We Learned

• Ministry
• We have a long standing history of ministries for
  parishioners to be involved in.
• Currently we have 68 ministries to choose from.
• For example the Country Fair had 375 members who
  offered 2,237 hours.

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What We Learned

• Ministry (Continued)
• We have 251 families (26 of our parish) who have
  at least 1 member signed up at the Parish for at
  least 1 ministry.
• We have 726 families (74 of our parish) with no
  recorded members involved in ministries.

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What We Learned

• Finance
• Of our 977 registered families we had 686 that
  made at least one contribution to the Sunday
  Offertory and/or the United in Faith Capital
  Campaign in our Fiscal Year ending 6/30/08.

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What We Learned

• Finance (Continued)
• 291 Families gave NO recordable amount to our
  Sunday Offertory.
• 215 Families, contributed 78 of our Offertory
  during our fiscal year ending 6/30/08.
• 471 Families, contributed 22 of our Offertory
  during our fiscal year ending 6/30/08

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What We Learned

• Finance (Continued)
• Finance Council has budgeted a 27 increase in
  Offertory for this fiscal year.
• Our Challenge is meeting this goal.

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Baptismal Call To

• Prayer
• Each week we give back the first fruits of
  our Time in Prayer personal and communal. In
  this we come to KNOW God.

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Baptismal Call To

• Ministry
• Immersed and overflowing with Gods Love we are
  called to share our first fruits in Christs
  work through the various Ministries in the Church
  and at home.

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Baptismal Call To

• Finance
• We share the first fruits of our Financial
  Resources with the church so that we might
  support the many ways we Serve Him and share in
  His saving work.

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The Heart of Giving Program is About..

• BIBLICAL STEWARDSHIP
• Increasing participation of ALL registered
  parishioners in prayer, ministry and finance.

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How Do We Increase Stewardship of

• Prayer

Ministry
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What We Assumed
Individual Prayer Life
ParishInvolvement
SpiritualHealth
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What We Know

• There is a difference between
• Individual Prayer Life (deep and personal)
• Parish Involvement (broad and interpersonal)

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Reasonable To Think
Individual Prayer Life
ParishInvolvement
SpiritualHealth
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What We Learned
By focusing our efforts on increasing the
Engagement level of our members, we have a better
chance of impacting their Individual Prayer Life
and Spiritual Health.
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What We Learned
Parish Involvement
SpiritualHealth
More consistent Prayer Life
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How to Increase Prayer Ministry Participation

• Personal Invitation
• Festival of Ministries Weekend
• Use of multiple ways of communicating
  opportunities to become involved
• Phone Calls
• Web Site
• Bulletin
• Announcements
• Continued Evaluation of Process

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How Do We Increase Stewardship of

• Finance

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What We Learned

• Parishioners want MORE Financial information made
  readily available.
• Parishioners want to understand what drives the
  weekly offertory amount needed (23,000).
• The Ministry/Role of the Finance Council is to
  communicate the Finances to the Parish

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Ways to Increase Financial Participation

• Offer Multiple Options for Contributing
• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) from checking or
  savings account
• Bill Pay

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Ways to Increase Financial Participation

• Weekly Envelopes
• Additional Ways to Give
• Annual Gift
• Gift of Stock

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Baptismal Call To
Prayer Each week we give back the first
fruits of our Time in Prayer personal and
communal. In this we come to KNOW God. TO KNOW
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Baptismal Call To

• Ministry
• Immersed and overflowing with Gods Love we are
  called to share our first fruits in Christs
  work through the various Ministries in the Church
  and at home.
• TO LOVE

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Baptismal Call To

• Finance
• We share the first fruits of our Financial
  Resources with the church so that we might
  support the many ways we Serve Him and share in
  His saving work.
• TO SERVE

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Why Are We Doing This?

• To Know God, to Love God, to Serve
• God so that we can Know others, Love
• others and Serve others like God.
• Fr. John Moriarty

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Biblical Stewardship

• This is our invitation to each of you to
• Renew your own Stewardship commitment and
• Join us in personally inviting those parishioners
  who havent experienced ALL this community has to
  offer to get more involved!