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Friends,

Most Sundays by the time I get here, things are already in motion.   The choir's warming up, the coffee's brewing, someone's making sure the bulletins are straight, and there's a bit of quiet laughter drifting down the hall.   It's one of the things I love about this place - how the work of grace has already started before we even gather.

That's really what stewardship is about for me.   It isn't a fundraiser or a season for guilt.   It's a way of life - taking the abundance God's already given us, in our health, our time, our finances, and our creativity, and using it so others can find their place within that same abundance.   It's how faith turns into care, how gratiitude becomes something shared.

We don't start this work; we join it.  And every Sunday - in the greetings at the door, the laughter after worship, the music that carries us when we're tired - I see the signs of what God's already doing among us.

So as we step into this season of Stewardship, maybe the question isn't how much we'll give, but how we'll join what grace has already started - with everything we are.

See you Sunday - I’ll save you a seat.

Alex+