The scriptural inspiration for our Annual Stewardship Campaign this year, "Who Dares Stand Idle?", is the parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16). The icon for our campaign this year is David Teniers the Younger's painting of this parable, which hangs in the Art Museum of LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA, to which we are grateful for permission to use the painting. The painting was formerly in the collection of King Louis-Philippe of France. Teniers, 1610-1690, was born in Flanders and spent most of his career there. His first art instructor was his father. He married the daughter of the artist, Jan Brueghel the Elder. In 1655 he became dean of the Antwerp Art guild and later became court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, regent of the Netherlands, and his successor, Don John of Austria, and curator of the large art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. His work is represented in most of the major art museums in the world, especially the Prado, Madrid, Spain. He was a prolific painter of almost every kind of picture but his most frequent topic was genre scenes, paintings of everyday peasant life, a style of painting that lends itself to pictorial representation of parables. In this painting of the parable the setting has been moved from first century Palestine to 17th century Flanders. A disgruntled laborer is remonstrating with the householder because he received the same pay for working all day as did the workers who only began work at the 11th hour. The picture is modeled after a painting on the same subject by the Italian painter, Domenico Feti (ca.1589-1624). Teniers removed a dog from the left side near the cart and added three figures: two young men dressed in blue, who are thought to be modeled after Teniers' sons, and the man with the blue hat on the right, who is thought to be modeled after Rembrandt, a contemporary of Teniers.