Stewardship is ALIVE at Sacred Heart
We Are The Disciples of Christ
Parish Stewardship Committee gets a fresh start.
For the past year, parish leaders have been studying the new Manual for Parish Pastoral Councils, which, in the words of Archbishop Jerome Hanus,
“provides a framework ….to shape a faith-filled, life-giving community
that becomes the instrument of salvation for the members.”
With the direction of these new guidelines the parish Stewardship Committee
is ready to start fresh.
The purpose of the Stewardship Committee:
“To encourage parishioners to exercise stewardship as an expression of gratitude to God and as a way of life for disciples of Christ” (from the Manual).
All previous members are invited to be part of this new committee formation, but we are also hoping for new members. If you are somebody who exercises stewardship as a response in gratitude for God's gifts, and who would like to help promote stewardship in our parish, please consider offering your gifts as a member of the Stewardship Committee. Our meetings are the 3rd Monday of every month from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. The first meeting is Monday, September 20. Watch the parish calendar for details.
For information contact Nancy Rigel @ 234-4996, email dbq209s@arch.pvt.K12.ia.us
or Jill Weber @ 240-3975, email jrrebew@cfu.net
Prayer is essential to the life of a Christian Steward.
Our prayer helps us to be better aware of God’s goodness in our lives.
Prayer is also essential to one’s conversion and continues to challenge us
to be better Christians.
Stewardship Prayer
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that. This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well. It may be incomplete,
but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen.
- Archbishop Oscar Romero (b. August 15, 1917)
STEWARDS OF THE MONTH
Scott & Anne Sergeant
“Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Mt. 25:21
Twice the Talent
Twice the Stewardship
Twice the talent; twice the stewardship;
twice the devotion to Sacred Heart Parish.
This is true of September's Stewards of the Month,
Scott and Anne Sergeant.
"We believe in stewardship
because we enjoy being members of Sacred Heart parish
and believe it is important to give back to our faith community,"
Anne explains.
Give back they do!
Both are lectors; Anne is a Eucharistic Minister; Scott is an usher.
Both have been co-chairs of Sacred Heart's Golf Outing for seven years
and for many years, Scott has created the publicity
for the parish's Fall Festival.
As a parishioner since 1983, Anne has given
her time and talent to the Sacred Heart Board of Education, the
Cedar Valley Metro Board of Education and the Cedar Valley
Catholic Schools Board of Education.
She is currently chair of the parish Liturgy Committee
and beginning this month, she, along
with Theresa McRae, will fill the new position of the
Waterloo Catholic Faith Formation Commission Representative.
Scott and Anne also share their time with their family of three children, including a daughter, Brooke Prestegard and her husband, Rick,
and their son Hayden;
a son, Jared and his wife Ashley, and
with their other son, Byron, a student at the University of Iowa.
Sharing their gifts with their two "families", both are also employed.
Anne is at John Deere and Scott is with VGM.
They are prime examples that you can find time to share.
Stewardship is ALIVE at Sacred Heart
We Are The Disciples of Christ
Parish Stewardship Committee gets a fresh start.
For the past year, parish leaders have been studying the new Manual for Parish Pastoral Councils, which, in the words of Archbishop Jerome Hanus,
“provides a framework ….to shape a faith-filled, life-giving community
that becomes the instrument of salvation for the members.”
With the direction of these new guidelines the parish Stewardship Committee
is ready to start fresh.
The purpose of the Stewardship Committee:
“To encourage parishioners to exercise stewardship as an expression of gratitude to God and as a way of life for disciples of Christ” (from the Manual).
All previous members are invited to be part of this new committee formation, but we are also hoping for new members. If you are somebody who exercises stewardship as a response in gratitude for God's gifts, and who would like to help promote stewardship in our parish, please consider offering your gifts as a member of the Stewardship Committee. Our meetings are the 3rd Monday of every month from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. The first meeting is Monday, September 20. Watch the parish calendar for details.
For information contact Nancy Rigel @ 234-4996, email dbq209s@arch.pvt.K12.ia.us
or Jill Weber @ 240-3975, email jrrebew@cfu.net
Prayer is essential to the life of a Christian Steward.
Our prayer helps us to be better aware of God’s goodness in our lives.
Prayer is also essential to one’s conversion and continues to challenge us
to be better Christians.
Stewardship Prayer
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that. This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well. It may be incomplete,
but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen.
- Archbishop Oscar Romero (b. August 15, 1917)
STEWARD OF THE MONTH
Dick Van Besien
“Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Mt. 25:21
LITTLE CHILDREN
ARE HIS STEWARDSHIP
A self-proclaimed lover of children, a father of five,
a grandfather of 12 and great-grandfather of three,
is being recognized as
Sacred Heart's Steward of the Month for August.
Dick Van Besien translates that love of children
into volunteering with four-year-olds at Sacred Heart Pre-School
and with kindergartners every Tuesday and Thursday during the school year.
This fall he will begin his 14th year reading to them, accompanying them to lunch and out on the playground.
"I am with Mrs. McGarvey's class in the mornings and with Mrs. Frost's students in the afternoons.
"I enjoy being with children;
that's why I volunteer at the school," he explains.
Retired now for 17 years as a supervisor at John Deere,
Dick and his wife, Sandy, were married at Sacred Heart 61 years ago.
They are the parents of Kelly, Mark, Amy (deceased), Sarah and Bridget.
This Steward doesn't limit his talents to Sacred Heart School.
He also serves his parish as an Eucharistic Minister, an usher,
and as a Mass Server with his granddaughter Maddy.
There is one other place you can find Dick Van Besien when the weather cooperates.
This is where he fulfills another love...
on the golf course.