Making Stewardship A Way of Life
TO THE LISTENERS WHO HAVE ENJOYED THE 13 EPISODES: THANK YOU! After four years, the podcast will end on July 21, 2025.
Father Andrew Kemberling, an expert on the practice of stewardship in faith life, explains how stewardship is a spirituality that is anchored in thanksgiving for God's many blessings. He explains how stewardship is practiced through commitments of time, talent, and treasure. Listening to this 13 episode podcast series, you'll develop a new and exciting perspective on a life of stewardship and how you can make it your own.
Making Stewardship A Way of Life
Episode 2: The Core Values of Stewardship: Identity, Trust, Gratitude, Love
In this episode, Father Andrew Kemberling reminds us that "stewardship" is a spirituality, not just a theology. The spirituality is based on four core values: identity, trust, gratitude, and love. Identity is anchored in the fact that we were created by God to love Him and serve Him. We belong to Him. Trust is believing that God will provide for our needs, not just our wants. Gratitude tells us to focus on everything we've been blessed with as gifts, and especially the spiritual gifts. When we recognize the gifts and blessings we have received, we should want to give back to God in thanksgiving. Love is at the core of stewardship's spirituality. It is the basic requirement of someone leading a Christian life. If we have a need to love, we will have a need to give.
Father Andrew Kemberling is a parochial vicar of Immaculate Heart of Mary in Northglenn, Colorado. For 14 years he was pastor at St. Thomas More Parish in Centennial, CO. With Mila Glodava, Director of Communications and Stewardship, he wrote the book "Making Stewardship a Way of Life: A Complete Guide for Catholic Parishes" (published by Our Sunday Visitor, 2009). The parish received many awards for its pioneering embrace of stewardship as a touchstone of parish life. Fr. Andrew was born in Tucson, Arizona and joined the Benedictine order in 1985. He war ordained a priest in 1988.