Community Christian Church

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A Milestone Weekend at COMMUNITY

Written by Dave Ferguson Thursday, April 24, 2008

This past weekend was truly a remarkable milestone in the life of Community Christian Church. We did something we have never done before and gave away our entire weekend offering! Yep, we gave away nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The grand total was just over $229,000!

Last winter we felt like God was calling us to be an even more generous church than ever before. As we prayed about this it became clear that we needed to take one whole weekend and give away our entire offering to some other part of the Jesus mission both locally and around the world. We selected four teams that COMMUNITY invests in and decided to devote the entire service to them.

As a result of this offering and of YOUR continued involvement in these four teams of the Jesus Mission, lives are being changed in Uganda, the Philippines, East Aurora, and all across the world through the NewThing networks and reproducing churches!

One of my favorite stories came from a guy who turned in an envelope at the Yellow Box on Saturday night. We talked about this offering and this mission as helping the 20% who live in poverty and reaching the 67% who don’t yet know God. He wrote on his envelope… “I am one of the 67. Thank you for doing this.”

God has called COMMUNITY to be a generous church, and I am so proud of our attenders for not only getting behind this, but giving so generously. The people of COMMUNITY gave way more than double the usual Jesus Mission offering!  Wow! Thank you COMMUNITY!  Let's continue to become a more and more generous church who follows an extraordinarily generous God!