It\u2019s not a mega-church, nor even a large church.\u00a0 It\u2019s medium-sized church, that has yet to fully recover from the effects of COVID. \u00a0When the long-term Pastor retired over a year ago, some members were still wearing face masks to worship services.\u00a0 It is a church full of wonderful, loving people, with a great location, a challenging opportunity for growth and if I were twenty-five years younger . . . well let\u2019s not go there. \u00a0But the church had seldom set a mission\u2019s giving goal.\u00a0 This past month, they set their first-in-a-long-time such goal of $1500 for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.\u00a0 For several Sundays in late November and early December we hosted live missionaries, and supplemented sermons with brief video tapes of missionaries from their fields of service, made personal just for our church, as a favor to me \u2013 either as their former professor or as a friend who had visited them in their country. \u00a0When the gifts had been counted, they had given $3745 \u2013 more than double their goal. No, it doesn\u2019t match the hundreds of thousands given my mega-churches, nor the tens of thousands given by large churches, but it is a significant step for a post-COVID congregation, still searching for their next pastor. I am so proud of them.<\/p>\n
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