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Support and Our Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I listen to Nation Public Radio and community radio in the last few weeks, I am reminded that it is again pledge time.\u00a0 I cannot seem to get away from it, whichever station I am listening to.\u00a0 But that is okay, because I know that I appreciate the programing that I tune in to, and I want to help \"Pastor<\/a>support those stations, so that they can continue to do what they do, for me and for others in my community.\u00a0 The things that I value I want to support with my gifts.<\/p>\n

It is that time in your congregation as well.\u00a0 Hopefully, members and friends of Saint John Lutheran Church are no longer surprised when we do an annual Congregational Support Promotion.\u00a0\u00a0 For a number of years now we have been very intentional about reaching out to you to encourage your support for what you value, the ministries of Saint John Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n

But, we have more than just a consumer\u2019s perspective about congregational giving.\u00a0 We do not merely support things so that they continue.\u00a0 We give because we know from the Scriptures that giving is a spiritual matter.\u00a0 To stretch ourselves requires that we trust more.\u00a0 We grow in faith as we grow in giving.\u00a0 We want to increase our faith. you to return that information.\u00a0 We will wrap up our Congregational Support Promotion before December.<\/p>\n

When you receive information about the Estimate of Giving to the General Fund for 2016, please pray with those involved, and consider how your support of your congregation might be a spiritual exercise, a means to grow your faith.\u00a0 Thank you in advance for your generosity, and may God bless you in this season of harvest.<\/p>\n

Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.\u00a0 And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.\u00a0 As it is written, “He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”\u00a0 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.\u00a0 You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us;\u00a0 for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God.\u00a0 (2 Cor. 9:7-12, NRSV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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