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Stewardship of Life Institute
The Stewardship of Life Institute (SOLI) is an independent entity, headquartered
at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The Institute (www.stewardshipoflife.org)
was founded in 1994 and sees its mission as stewardship education and promotion
throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and particularly in the
seminaries of the ELCA. The Institute publishes study materials, adult education
courses, resources for congregational stewardship education, and much more. Some
of these print resources are available free of charge, while others involve a
cost. In addition to print publications and resources, the Web site is a
resource in itself which would be a valuable “bookmark” in any congregational
leader’s Web browser.

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The best feature of this site for church leaders at any time of the year is the
“New This Week” home page. Well-maintained and frequently updated, the main page
of SOLI provides key links to their own new material as well to as good
resources from around the Web (both church-related and not, Lutheran and
ecumenical) that have to do with stewardship of time, treasure, and talent.
A recent contribution from the “New This Week” site was a link to a column from
Church Solutions magazine about giving in troubling economic times, an essay
about stewardship of God’s creation from the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, a
handy list of best practices for year-round stewardship formation from the
Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, and two columns from SOLI’s own
regular contributors.
Each of these sets of resources, posted new every week, are archived on the site
so you can retrieve the best material and links from the past five years. This
is a great way to use Web resources like this, as a place to literally
“hyperlink” your way around to new ideas and fresh insights, along with
reminders of well-proven truths from the past.
In addition to linking to resources, articles, sermon ideas, and worship
resources from around the church and world, SOLI has a set of regular
contributors of original content. Pastor Sharron Lucas writes a biweekly column
exploring what it means to live a whole life of stewardship. Topics interact
with parish life, family life, and lectionary texts. The author’s thrust is
always about the stewardship of all of God’s gifts.
Pastor Robert Blezard, who serves as the Web master and content editor for
SOLI’s Web site, writes a weekly brief column that goes together with a weekly
e-mail update to subscribers. If you click on the easy “Click to Subscribe”
button on the left side of the Resources subpage, you’ll get a weekly e-mail
with Pastor Blezard’s comments and direct links to the new resources highlighted
by SOLI for that week.
For those looking for fresh and faithful insights into stewardship of money as
well as everything else that God has given us,
stewardshipoflife.org will be a
great addition to your Bookmarks file.
Jennifer and Seth Moland-Kovash serve as co-pastors of All Saints Lutheran
Church in Palatine, Illinois and editors for Lutheran Partners and Lutheran
Partners Online. More online resources can be found at
http://delicious.com/lutheranpartners.
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