ON Sunday the 30th we canceled church as we know it. We took the 1,200 it takes to rent the school, divided it among everyone that showed up, and asked them to find a way to be a blessing to people in the community. This is their stories....
From Andria Eppes:
There have been many years around Christmastime, when I have wanted to be able to do more for people in need, but haven't had the money to do what I wanted. So, I thought it would be a good idea to use this money to buy gift cards for people and explain that they could use that gift card to buy something for someone in need. That way, not only was my family blessed, and the person we gave the gift card to, but also whoever it inspired them to help. It feels so good to give and I wanted to give that feeling to other people. So, we went to Target and bought eight $10 gift cards, and the kids handed them to people while Mike explained what our church was doing and that they could use the card for themselves if they needed it, or they could use it to bless someone else. People seemed very happy to get the gift card and seemed even more excited about the idea of using it to help someone else. Although at first we got some odd looks. It's interesting just how skeptical people are when you want to give them something for free. I thought this was a great opportunity to put into action the things we talk about every Sunday.
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