Generosity Ingathering Weekend

“Stories of Home” shapes our fall generosity appeal this year. The promise that God’s home is with us and our home is in God brings comfort and hope in complex times. Gerhard Frost, a Lutheran poet and writer of the last century, taught the importance of “homing in the presence of God.” Reflecting on what it means that our home is in God, Frost wrote, “God offers himself to us; we, in turn, share what we receive from him. This is the meaning of the Christian story. In a graceful cycle of faith, we move from God to each other and back to God again. Our movement is both personal and communal. It binds together the past and future, and through it we come together in the presence of the Father, Son, and Spirit” (Homing in the Presence, 121).

Below, you will find the Stories of Home brochure and the Ways to Give sheet. The faith promise intention card is in the brochure as a tear-off page. The Ways to Give sheet is an added resource as you plan to fulfill the intention that you will make to God as an act of worship on Saturday, November 22, or Sunday, November 23. We will make our faith promises, our financial intentions, as an act of worship. It is a hopeful response for us to process to the front during worship and place our faith promises in the cornucopias as a corporate act of faith.