During this season, we ask you to prayerfully consider pledging to financially support Madeira-Silverwood in 2025.
Financial giving is a spiritual discipline. When you give, you offer your resources to God, inviting the Lord to multiply your gifts and make great things happen. When you give, you train yourself to become more dependent upon God, trusting that the Lord will provide for your every need. When you give, you participate in all God's great work in our midst.
We will focus this year’s stewardship season on the four big goals arising from our Elemental Church planning process this year. While these goals don’t represent all the amazing ministry that God is doing through Madeira-Silverwood, they illustrate the direction in which we believe God is calling us. We’re in for an exciting journey over the next couple of years as we work on these goals; this series invites you to take your next step of faith and join us in the exciting work ahead. Don’t miss a single week of this series:
November 2. Goal: Increase Missional Groups. We’ll explore how the Holy Spirit empowered the early church and how their example of life together inspires us today. Scripture focus: Acts 2:1-4, 42-47. Worship services at 9 and 11.
November 10. Goal: Everyone is Welcomed and Engaged. Peter encourages us to practice hospitality and to use our gifts to serve others. As we examine Peter’s teaching, we’ll be challenged to consider how we welcome and engage everyone we encounter as a community. Scripture focus: I Peter 4:7-11. Worship services are at 9 and 11.
November 17. Goal: Increase Mobilization to Meet Needs. Jesus teaches that those who would lead should adopt the posture of servants. We’ll explore how this challenges us to take our next step of faith and meet one another’s needs in deeper ways. Scripture focus: Mark 10:35-45. Worship services are at 9 and 11.
November 24. Goal: Increase Outreach. The more deeply we experience the grace of God, the more we invite people to come and see what God is doing. We will explore how David poetically invites us to “taste and see that the Lord is good,” and we will consider how we can invite others to take their next step of faith with Jesus. Scripture focus: Psalm 34:1-14. One service at 10.
We conclude our Stewardship season with a single 10 AM worship service so we can assemble as a congregation. During that service, you’ll have an opportunity to bring your pledge card forward and place it on the communion table. Many people find this tangible act a spiritually significant moment with the Lord. After the service, we invite you to join in with the Hanging of the Greens, as we decorate the sanctuary and building for the Christmas Season.
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