The planned giving logo is built upon the shape of a bishop’s mitre reminding us that our church is episcopally led in the succession of the Apostles. The sign of the cross represents our Lord’s passion and resurrection. The horizontal element of the cross represents the world and the vertical, God.
As Christians we are called to live our lives at the intersection of the horizontal and the vertical. It is here that we respond to Christ’s call to proclaim the Gospel to the world. Here we discern our Christian vocation and carry out our ministry as a community grounded in faith, and as a visible sign of our witness to Christ.
Through our faith we respond generously to God’s love in our lives. We exercise good stewardship of God’s generous gifts to us, both as individuals and corporately, as a church. Our responsible stewardship will bear the fruit from which the seeds of our church’s ministry to future generations will grow and flourish.
Planned giving in the church simply is our response to God’s love by exercising responsible stewardship of all that we have been given by God. This will include the preparing of a valid will to ensure that our families we will be cared for in the future. It also includes, if at all possible, the establishment of gifts supporting God’s work in the world.
