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To God be the Glory!
Last night as I was presenting the 2015 Budget to the Stewardship Team another Elder shared his heart about seeing our faith in the budget, for lack of a better way to say it and that doesn't mean he believes in spending more than we have, he asked some good questions about various items and where we as a body were going. I told him that I can't just pull numbers out of the air and put them down especially after we had seen a decrease in giving, some people retired, some moved away etc.
He then says "what if I told you someone paid off the mortgage?"
I can only imagine the dumb founded look on my face with my mouth gaping open...then the tears started to flow down my cheeks. You see back in 2009 I had spoken to the leadership about the church needing to get out of debt and I had asked them "What could the Church do for the Kingdom of God if it had no debt?"
This team and I have worked hard to be good stewards of God's resources to make sure we not only take care of the place where we worship but ministering to the lost as well. We constantly sought His wisdom and direction in everything we did and it hasn't always been easy, we have had to delay repairs and seek out cost effective alternatives that would meet the need etc. I firmly believe this Blessing is the result of the Stewardship (and our cry to Him to be free of debt) we exhibited not only by the Stewardship team but also by the Staff and Pastor's, all of us working together for His Glory.
As of 11/19/2014 this church has NO Debt.
Now after the tears of joy and a time of praise I told the team that I will redo the budget for 2015 and we will all be seeking the Lord for wisdom and direction of what He wants us to do.
Let me be clear, God did this. He provided the abundance, He spoke to the heart of a Good Steward, and that person had a yes in their heart. This Sunday we will announce it to the congregation that we are Debt Free and God will get all the Glory!!
I serve an awesome God that does wonders through people. God is doing great things and I fully expect Him to be doing more in the days ahead.
I get to redo a budget that will not include any debt payments, a great problem to have, and it is all because of God.
Last night as I was presenting the 2015 Budget to the Stewardship Team another Elder shared his heart about seeing our faith in the budget, for lack of a better way to say it and that doesn't mean he believes in spending more than we have, he asked some good questions about various items and where we as a body were going. I told him that I can't just pull numbers out of the air and put them down especially after we had seen a decrease in giving, some people retired, some moved away etc.
He then says "what if I told you someone paid off the mortgage?"
I can only imagine the dumb founded look on my face with my mouth gaping open...then the tears started to flow down my cheeks. You see back in 2009 I had spoken to the leadership about the church needing to get out of debt and I had asked them "What could the Church do for the Kingdom of God if it had no debt?"
This team and I have worked hard to be good stewards of God's resources to make sure we not only take care of the place where we worship but ministering to the lost as well. We constantly sought His wisdom and direction in everything we did and it hasn't always been easy, we have had to delay repairs and seek out cost effective alternatives that would meet the need etc. I firmly believe this Blessing is the result of the Stewardship (and our cry to Him to be free of debt) we exhibited not only by the Stewardship team but also by the Staff and Pastor's, all of us working together for His Glory.
As of 11/19/2014 this church has NO Debt.
Now after the tears of joy and a time of praise I told the team that I will redo the budget for 2015 and we will all be seeking the Lord for wisdom and direction of what He wants us to do.
Let me be clear, God did this. He provided the abundance, He spoke to the heart of a Good Steward, and that person had a yes in their heart. This Sunday we will announce it to the congregation that we are Debt Free and God will get all the Glory!!
I serve an awesome God that does wonders through people. God is doing great things and I fully expect Him to be doing more in the days ahead.
I get to redo a budget that will not include any debt payments, a great problem to have, and it is all because of God.
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