Letter to the editor: Priority: fundraising ?

Notes: "What an unfortunate headline ! ['Priority: fundraising', Jan. 2014, p. 6]. It can't be right. Surely I misread it ! Did the Council of General Synod (CoGS) really tell Resources for Mission folk that their top priority is fundraising ? They could not possibly have meant that -- not after all the efforts of the department of mission resources and national church staff spent in time, energy and, yes, money to raise awareness of the Marks of Mission, and assisting dioceses across Canada in developing a holistic approach to year-round stewardship. This is not fundraising. This is responding to the gospel challenge to 'seek first the Kingdom'. That is the priority. That is responding to the biblical reality that all we have, and all we are, already belong to God, and stewardship is the way disciples respond to that reality. The 'Anglican Journal' must have got it wrong, or else CoGS did. Either would be unfortunate and disappointing". [Text of entire article.]

Subjects: Fund raising - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Stewardship, Christian - Anglican Church of Canada; Marks of Mission - Anglican Church of Canada