This is posted over on our church website, www.whatifchurch.com. Maybe God will touch your heart to get involved with your community as well!
Easter Offering Challenge!
As we all know times are tough. The economy isn’t doing well, all over people are losing jobs. Where is the church in all of this? How can the body of Christ help, what should we be doing? Jesus said that he was fulfilling the prophesy in Isaiah that says:
“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,
BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.
HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,
AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED, (Luke 4:18)
We also read about the parable of The Good Samaritan in Luke 10. There are so many that are hurting and needing help right now, how can we just pass by and do nothing. Easter Sunday is known as the most attended church service all year long, which also usually means the biggest offering. We are a small church, but we will give away any offering that we take on Easter Sunday. Our offering will be going to a local agency that helps people all the time, it is called WECAN. There are so many needs and so little resources.
We usually don’t even meet on Sunday mornings but we feel strong enough that we must on this Sunday, to honor God, to honor our community. We challenge other churches, that will, to join us as we make a statement all around the Twin Cities that we care about the hurting and poor. We care about those in need in our communities. We will help.
Ask your church to make a bold statement to your community that with the biggest offering of the year, we give to our communities… we offer it back to God. If you don’t have a church or just want to be a part of this special offering. Come join us at 10:00am on Easter Sunday for our special community service. We are hoping that even as we are small, that God would take our offering of a few fish and a few loaves of bread and do something amazing with it! Will you join us?
