I haven’t mentioned how we did on the $1 offering for the victims of the earthquake in China & the Typhoon in Myanmar. World Vision asked us to be a part of 1000 churches who who ask people for $1 for a total of 1000 to raise a million dollars for the victims of these tragedies.
Everyone thought this was a GREAT idea – just a buck!!!
Well we raised 2300 pretty painlessly! Actually it was 2347.23 (someone couldn’t come up w/ the extra ยข77)
One of the functions of a church is to give us opportunities to for love & good deeds. (Hebrews 10:24). I love opportunities like this.
Great job Journey.
BTW – if any of you outside of journey want to mail us a buck, we’ll make sure it gets to World Vision & thus to China & Myanmar
A great supporter of World Vision is AIDtoCHILDREN.com.
AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a dual-purpose site for building an English vocabulary and raising money for under privileged children in the most impoverished places around the world.
Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com
By: Gord Hunt on August 26, 2008
at 3:15 pm
Mail? What’s Mail?
PayPal my friend. That way we save 42c in postage… actually we can bump up the PayPal donation to $1.42 and you get the extra cents, not the post office.
Cheers,
Matt
By: Matt Rings on August 30, 2008
at 2:35 pm
More Often!
Since it was so painless, we (I) would love to participate more in things like this. Heck, I can spare more than a buck evey Sunday for radical things like this and it sure doesn’t hurt my wife and I from our tithe or Journey up. I love to see the numbers journey turns up after these things. $1300 more than necessary. It kinda makes journey what it is, huh?
By: Paul Hicok on August 30, 2008
at 3:52 pm