If you live in Wichita, Kansas that is. The latest National Catholic Register (sorry the article isn’t online) reports how all Wichita diocese Catholic schools offer tuition free education. That’s right, tuition free.

How?

Through stewardship. Or to say it more plainly, through people freely giving the Church money. They accomplished this at St. Andrew the Apostle in Philadelphia:

After several years of parish stewardship they were still struggling, and foresaw a $135,000 deficit for 2003-2004. Instead of hitting the alarm bell, however, the pastor of St. Andrew, Father Joseph Glatts, suggested the parish do exactly the opposite of hiking its tuition fees, and instead, offer a tuition-free education beginning in 2004 for children of families that embraced the stewardship message.

It was a true leap of faith, and God rewarded it.

For many families, it’s hard to get the courage up to submit to God 10% of your income. But once you do, and force yourself to trust…