The bottom line

Our budget this year is a touch under $450,000. That means it costs about $1250 a day to keep the doors open... Let's see; that means that a family which made $50,000 a year and tithed would fund four days of parish life.

And how many of us have made the commitment to tithe? At the very least, consider proportional giving: knowing the percentage of your income which you give to the Church. In this way, you can move toward the standard of tithing.

For readings on stewardship, check out this Episcopal church in California or this parish in Northern Virginia. Or this Catholic parish in Florida. Each of these parish's have stewardship efforts which are in alignment, philosophically, with our efforts here at Trinity. And, they provide good reads. I encourage you to surf over and check them out as you prayerfully consider your stewardship and gift to Trinity.