How to Build a Stewardship Church that Loves the Poor: A Field Guide for Church Builders

"How to Build a Stewardship Church that Loves the Poor" A Field Guide for Church Builders shows you the nuts and bolts of how to kickoff and nurture transformative change in the church using stewardship.

This book rounds up the best practices of stewardship pioneers in the Philippines and recalibrates them into a step-by-step procedure that aspiring church builders around the world can follow to realize a supercharged church that excels at making disciples who care for humanity and all creation.

This Field Guide is for bishops, parish priests, and lay leaders who want to breathe new life into their churches. If you are a mover and a shaker who wants to revivify the church so that she is worthy of her Great Commission, then this book is for you.

PRAISES

Taking a fresh, practical approach, Jose Luis Clemente offers us a singularly reliable resource for implementing stewardship in a parish. His work should be added to that "core curriculum" that explains how stewardship enhances our Catholic life of faith.
-Michael Murphy,
Executive Director
International Catholic Stewardship Council, U.S.A.

"Thank you very much for this hulog ng langit (godsend) and a much-needed formation guide on such a timely topic-so fitting a gift for our 500 Years of Christianity celebration!
-Most Rev. Gerardo A. Alminaza, DD,
Bishop of San Carlos, Negros Occidental

"While the pandemic has turned things upside down in the world, the faithful may wish to consider getting a few potent ideas from Jose Luis Clemente's stewardship manual that could actually turn the Church right side up and, perhaps, the entire world on a new life-giving path."
-Br. Armin A. Luistro, FSC,
President of De La Salle University
and Former Secretary of the Department of Education, Philippines

"The seven steps promoted in this book is an effective guide for the parish priest and his team in forming the parish into a communion of communities that is inspired by the spirituality of stewardship and that realizes the vision of a renewed Church of Vatican II and PCP II: the Church as a community of disciples living in communion; participating in the mission of Christ as priestly, prophetic, and servant/kingly people; and, as the Church of the Poor.

I highly recommend this book to the clergy and their lay and religious collaborators."
-Fr. Amado L. Picardal, CSsR,
Executive Co-Secretary
JPIC Commission-USG/UISG,
Rome, Italy

"Once you read this book, you will realize that stewardship is not just a personal mission but a communal endeavor that will compassionately build the Church of and for the Poor."
-Most Rev. Mylo Hubert C. Vergara, DD,
Bishop of Diocese of Pasig

"This is a hard-hitting masterpiece on alternative methods and approaches of New Evangelization. It clearly and poetically captured the reflective witnessing and living experience of the spirituality of stewardship.
May all pastors and lay leaders of our church read this inspiring book!"
-Fr. Noel Conopio,
Director of Diocesan Social Action Center,
Diocese of San Pablo

"This book-a piece of art-will help the reader navigate the challenges and trials of doing stewardship in the Church. I fully recommend walking through its pages, especially those who would like to make stewardship a way of life."
-Fr. Manuel Vicente Catral,
Parish Priest of San Pedro Telmo Parish,
Aparri, Cagayan

"A timely guide to our quest to infuse vibrant life to our faith as we move beyond 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines."
-Fr. Leonardo Dublan Jr.,
Parish Priest of St. Joseph the Worker Parish,
Davao City