BEING RICH
Most of you are aware that recently I challenged my church to BE RICH...to be generous and willing to share. I challenged them to do 3 specific things:
*Give $20,000 to the Non-Profit selected as the agency doing the best job of meeting the needs of
the poor and needy in our community
*Adopt 100 families in need and bless them at Christmas
*Commit 4,000 hours to serve our community
Our goal was to learn generosity, practice generosity and become known, as a church, for our generosity. So, how'd we do?
*Our church gave almost $31,000 to the Neighborhood Center
* We adopted and met the needs of 116 families (that we know of)
*We had so many people volunteer to serve the needs of our community, they ran out of things for
us to do
Success? In the short-term, absolutely. In the long-term, it remains to be seen. My hope is that we learn the great gift of generosity...for a lifetime. It would change our lives and the life of our church forever.
*Give $20,000 to the Non-Profit selected as the agency doing the best job of meeting the needs of
the poor and needy in our community
*Adopt 100 families in need and bless them at Christmas
*Commit 4,000 hours to serve our community
Our goal was to learn generosity, practice generosity and become known, as a church, for our generosity. So, how'd we do?
*Our church gave almost $31,000 to the Neighborhood Center
* We adopted and met the needs of 116 families (that we know of)
*We had so many people volunteer to serve the needs of our community, they ran out of things for
us to do
Success? In the short-term, absolutely. In the long-term, it remains to be seen. My hope is that we learn the great gift of generosity...for a lifetime. It would change our lives and the life of our church forever.
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