Regarding Commercialism in the Church: Taken from the ELCA Financial Stewardship Strategy Report and Recommendations adopted by churchwide assembly action August 1993.

If you wait until the golden month of November to conduct your stewardship response and expect to interpret the mission priorities, develop a passion for the church, ownership for the ministry, and a sense of responsibility to help, it is too late.  It is over before it begins.  Stewardship leadership must be a perpetual theme, not a special campaign.

Prayer Vigil Stewardship Campaign