So what is stewardship?  Paul Jeanes, our rector, has done an excellent job providing a religious and Christian perspective. I have another, hopefully just as Christian, view-it's about ensuring our house is open and functional for us to enjoy, and for anyone else who would like to enter. 

As we have heard both this week and last, we are a community, a family--a group of "us" not "I", "we" not "me". And like any family we have expenses that we have to pay to keep the household going. And trust me, our house in which we gather each week  is no different than the one in which you awake each morning. We have our expenses. And why wouldn't we? Where else can you go at least once a week for 1-3 to be entertained and educated, supported and nurtured, loved and cared for hours? And  we think this is free? How could it be?

So like any family with a house, we have expenses and we need to discuss paying for them.

I'd like to share with you some of those costs. Keep in kind these do not include our larger expenses such as personnel, servicing the debt, pensions, or our World Class music program.

• You have telephone and computers at home-do you pay  a Verizon bill ?  So do we, to the tune of $100K, That's just for the phones, computers and printers, and their upkeep, not for the personnel who actually use them.

• How about utilities? You like heat in the winter (this is just for the heat as many of you know who have come in the summer, we don't really use air conditioning) lights when it's dark? Snow removal? Garbage service? Do you pay PSE&G?  We do too, $125K every year.

• You have insurance bills? So do we $54K

That's just a few of the items that I know I've never thought about when I sit here on Sunday but are real and require our support.

So in the spirit of stewardship we are asking all of US to help US pay OUR bills so we can keep OUR house open to EVERYONE. Will you join us? I hope so!

Thank you to the following folks who pledged in the past week:

Paul & Holly Becker, Peter Bonette & Judy Buster, Bill & Judy Burks, Jean Cary, Christopher Cavanaugh & Bruce Stewart, Charles & Julia Chesebrough, Drew & Catherine Chintala, Jim Collins & Joan Reilly, Elizabeth Cooper, Joseph & Donna Crafford, Jonathan Craig, Ted & Jean Crane, Helene Davies, Lauren Davis, Anthony & Laurie De Lio, Jim Faus, Doug & Beth Fitzgerald, Grant & Lindsey Fraser, Mary & Douglas Fries, Aristides Georgantas, Albert & Patricia Gerbig, Sophie & Curtis Glovier, Tom & Marion Griffith, Bob & Lee Gunther-Mohr, Jack & Meg Hanington, Neal & Cynthia Hesterberg, Steve Isham, Esther Jenkins, Robert & Reaney Kunkler, Owen & Beverly Leach, Clint Lyle, Donald & Beth Margeson, Ernest Mathews, Art & Kim McGinnis, John & Ann McGoldrick, Terry Merrick, Marc & Tina Marie Mitchell, Polly O'Donoghue, Stephen & Susan Paneyko, Sarah Parker, Jim Phillips, Charles & Sue Plambeck, Claire Roberts, Rosemary Rutherford, Rachel Sagebien, Chris & Holly Schade, Jane Ann Schade, Bill & Jane Schowalter, Robert & Michele Seass, John & Doris Shea, Marc & Sharon Sibilia, Harriet Stuart, John & Kathy Sully, Sandi Tatnall, Sylvia Temmer, Trisha Thorme & John Meier, Ruth Thornton, David & Fausta Wertz, Eudora Wright and Lucien & Anne Yokana

• children lead the dismissal at the 9am service, and the process out the transept door and report to their classrooms for Sunday School.
• Rite 13 ( grades 7-8) meet in room G18

• J2A students (grades 9-10) gather in room G09 . 

• Sr. High students (grades 11 - 12) meet in room 111 (aka, the parlor)
  

• to be "race marshalls" on the course, email Grant Fraser bgfraser@bellatlantic.net

•  to help distribute the t-shirts, food and water, e-mail Annie Thomas thomasa@trinityprinceton.org
  
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• to distribute posters and flyers, please email Alison Roth