On Sunday, April 2, I got my seasons mixed up and said Christmas instead of Easter. I am getting old and suspect that will happen more and more. But, since I mentioned Christmas, let me give you an update on our Sunday, Christmas Day offering. Remember The Christmas Day Offering? This past Christmas our leadership, including our Finance Team, agreed to give away our Christmas Sunday offering to mission causes instead of putting it into the ongoing church budget. It was a Kingdom celebration giving thanks for God’s goodness. JIBC has been so blessed and we were in a great position to give even more. So here is what that looked like.
The offering for that particular Sunday was $7,440. These gifts were in addition to any budgeted gifts we planned to give to these missions. These were blessings above our regular budgeted accounts because we were so blessed.
· Romanian Church we partner with—$1,000
· The Romanian Pastor—$200 personal gift
· James Island Outreach—an extra $1,000
· Remember Orphan Sponsorship—$365.00
· A Pastor in South Africa—$200
· The Church in Ukraine Mark Livengood works with—$500.00
· The Ukraine Pastor—$200
· Annie Armstrong North American Missions—$1,000
· Living Hope (A discipleship ministry to those with broken sexuality issues) - $1,000
· Janie Chapman SC State Missions—$500.00
· Missionary friends Hector and Shannon in Honduras—$200
· Missionaries John and YiLing in Asia—$200
*In addition we received $7,094 for Lottie Moon International Missions.
We still have some of the funds left for other mission causes.
Wow…What a great day of blessing. We thank God for your generous giving and the attitude of our church family to be generous.
Thank you for your generous giving, your faithful praying and your love for our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pastor Tom
Easter Sunday Morning Requests
As you may anticipate, Easter Sunday should be a full house. We will be bringing down 100 extra chairs in anticipation of an overflow crowd. May I ask our church family to do two things this Sunday in particular. First, as you arrive, could you fill in all seats between you and the next person. Could we save the outside seats for our guests? Our greeters will be looking to help people find seating for two, three and four at a time. Second, gentlemen, could we have you ready to give up your seat for someone else. Not our Senior adult men, just us younger, healthier men. If it is needed, would you be willing to give up your seat? Thanks, you are the best! Let’s make our guests feel as welcome as possible.
