Dangerous Surrender $1000
Hi there! Happy Easter! He is Risen Indeed!
Here is a record of what we discerned together on Thursday about how God is calling us to spend our money:
- $300 to Oak Hill project, details to be discussed at our last class in a week and a half.
- $150 to Opportunity International, which will provide loans to at least 2 women to allow them to put their ideas into action to support their families. Each loan includes insurance, which protects people from crop failure and destitution due to funeral costs for AIDS, etc. And each loan recipient is put in a small group of other loan recipients, who support each other, are trained in sound business practices, and cover for each other's loan repayments when necessary. When the loans are repaid, the money is redistributed, so this money will keep giving and giving...
- $100 to World Vision's emergency relief project for refugees in Darfur, Sudan. This money is being quadrupled by the Can. govt right now, so it will really become $400 in aid money.
- $450 to the Global Christian Centre Ministry in Albania. This goes to Aferdita's brother-in-law, a pastor in Albania whose church runs many different ministries to the desparately poor. Go to lovealbania.com for more information. Our money could go to a widow Aferdita knows who uses stepping stones inside her house when it rains because her house floods so badly and she can't afford repairs. Or it could go to wherever the centre needs it most right now. Anyway, we know all this money will actually get to those who need it. The consensus was that hardly anyone in the Christian world knows about this need, so we wanted to rally around it.
Our time together on Thursday was powerful, listening to God together and sharing His stirrings in us. Thank you so much for being a part of our 'church', moving forward, arms linked...
Some people have told me that, as a part of their Dangerous Surrender follow-through, God is calling them to add of their own money to one or more of these projects. There is ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION on this account. This was intended as a class project only. They just asked me to let people know how to do this if this is the case for them. Two options, I think. 1). Write a cheque to your preferred organization (listed above) and bring it in a marked envelope on Thursday to add to our class proposal. If you want to give to the Oak Hill project, those cheques would be made out to Centre Street Church, as it is a CSC ministry. 2).Talk to me for more information and proceed as led.
This is very exciting!!
