From time to time a church needs to revisit benevolence practices, review policies, and update guidelines. Over the last three years requests for assistance to church congregations have increased…… the result of post-hurricane higher power bills, COVID...
From 2014…. I’m considering gifts today…..some received, some given, some valued, some cast aside. Some gifts are given that reflect the heart of the giver. Other gifts are given because they remind the giver of the heart of the receiver. Think of...
I was reading a missionary’s account of coming to a people who were struggling in the midst of a famine….even the pastor in the community had died of starvation. Yet, when he arrived he was greeted with a basket of food that would have sustained an entire...
Through the years I’ve been asked to “loan” money to people knowing full well that they were not likely to repay it. Not large sums…..a power bill here, some gas money there, a Christmas layaway final payment, partial rent payment, etc. I kept...
For family and friends Bill and I had the opportunity to assist financially on occasion. It’s hard to think how desperate people can feel at times when money is tight or non-existent. In some difficult years I, too, knew the feeling of wondering how we’d make a...
I have fond memories of time spent with family. Being together with cousins and siblings and other extended family for a holiday gathering reminded me of how those memories came about…….through time spent together…. through meals shared over the family table, through...
