Please help support your Church.
It costs a great deal of money to operate our churches. We rely on the stewardship of our parishioners to cover these costs and enable our parish family to thrive and carry out our mission to spread the Good News of the Gospel and bring us all into a closer relationship with God. We have a Parish Finance Council that ensures that every dollar contributed by our parishioners is spent wisely.
To help make donations easy, we have enlisted the services of an online stewardship communications company called LPi. We have set up a way for you to set up a one time -or- a recurring donation by visiting this web-site:
We encourage you to prayerfully consider a recurring donation to your church.
If you have any difficulty what-so-ever, please contact our Parish Office and ask for Kathy Clifton:
Phone: (937) 392-1116 -or- E-Mail: stmarymichaelgeorge@outlook.com
She will be happy to help you set up your donation.
Christian Stewardship
"As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace" (1 Peter 4:10).
What identifies a steward? Safeguarding material and human resources and using them responsibly are one answer; so is generous giving of time, talent, and treasure. But being a Christian steward means more. As Christian stewards, we receive God's gifts gratefully, cultivate them responsibly, share them lovingly in justice with others, and return them with increase to the Lord.
"Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness."
St Teresa of Calcutta
We often think that to become a disciple of Jesus we have to do something special to earn His love. We think we have to volunteer as much as possible, and we have to give all our money away. And, when we don’t, we often feel unworthy to be a disciple. Our giving becomes an obligation rather than act of generosity and love. But, the truth is, this thinking is actually backwards. Jesus doesn’t need us to DO anything special. He loves us for who we are. He really does. When we get to know the person of Jesus and we believe in His love and His mercy, we no longer see volunteering, tithing and participation in the Mass as “demands or obligations” of the church. When we allow God to guide our daily life, everything changes.
Our life no longer revolves around our own needs—our life revolves around the need of others. To be a disciple means that Christian Stewardship has become a way of life. It means that giving of our time, money and willing to give up his only son, Isaac, not because he felt obligated to do it, but because of his devotion to God. Do we have the response of Abraham? Do we want to give everything and everyone we love to God? Jesus reminds us of the gift of this kind of love every Sunday when He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist not because He feels obliged, but, rather because of His great love for us.
Stewardship isn't just MONEY
True stewardship involves time, talent and treasure.
As members of the human family, we are all blessed with the same amount of time: 24 hours per day. We are all called to be disciples of Christ.
Discipleship is friendship. Friendships take time to develop. We cannot expect that our friendship with Jesus will thrive by limiting our time spend with Jesus to one hour per week at Mass.
Please consider dedicating more time to develop your relationship with Jesus. Certainly time spent in prayer will go a long way toward helping you build this relationship. Also, time spent in service to the Church or in service to some of the less fortunate in our community can be helpful in bringing you closer to God.
