October is Stewardship Month at Christ Church Cathedral. During this month in particular, we ask you to contemplate how you can contribute to the work that we do together, and on Nov. 9 we will invite everyone to submit a pledge of how they will support our mission to Glorify God, Serve Our Neighbors, and Transform Our City.
In each of our Sunday services, our prayers will reflect our gratitude for God’s abundance and our shared call to be faithful stewards of grace, generosity, and hope.
Submit your pledge online at www.cccindy.org/pledge, or bring your pledge card to church on Sunday, Nov. 9.
With thankful hearts, let us pray together:
Leader:
God of abundance, you have entrusted us with gifts beyond measure and called us to be stewards of your manifold grace. In gratitude and hope, we lift our prayers, saying:
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Leader:
For your Church throughout the world, that every member may use the gifts of the Spirit to serve others and proclaim your love. We pray for Sean our Presiding Bishop, Jennifer our Bishop, Mauricio our companion Bishop in Brasília, and for our companions at the Cathedral of the Resurrection and Tatiana, their Dean.
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Leader:
For this cathedral community, that our offerings of time, talent, and treasure may strengthen our fellowship and sustain our common mission.
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Leader:
For those who share their stories of generosity and service among us this season. May their witness inspire us to discover our own call to faithful stewardship.
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Leader:
For our city and all who labor for justice, peace, and renewal. May we use our gifts to advocate for our neighbors experiencing homelessness, to confront racism and injustice in all its forms, and to welcome and protect immigrants. May our offerings help heal divisions and restore dignity to all.
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Leader:
For all who are in need: those who hunger or thirst, who grieve or despair, who are sick or in trouble—especially X. May the grace we have received be shared with them in love.
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Leader:
For those who have died in the hope of the Resurrection, especially X, and for all who have gone before us in lives of faith and generosity, whose gifts continue to bless us today.
People:
Use our gifts to glorify you, serve our neighbors, and transform our city.
Presider:
Gracious God, you call us to use the gifts we have received to serve others. Make us faithful stewards of your abundant grace, that our gifts may indeed become blessings tomorrow, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
