Tithes and Offerings
We greatly appreciate your tithes and love offerings. We are only able to keep our valuable ministry going with your kind and generous support, as the Lord leads.
And we read in the Bible, ” ‘ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith,’ saith the Lord of Hosts, ‘ if I will not open you the windows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.’ ” (Malachi 3:10)
We are a non-profit, Born-Again, Spirit-Filled, Christian ministry, dedicating our lives as Ambassadors for Christ, in spreading the good news of Jesus as He instructed according to his word. Only your tithes and offerings support this Church. For this, we bless you.
Right now were are in great need of your tithes, love offerings and prayer, in order that we may expand our church ministry, congregation and building as we relocate our church to a nearby location, thus providing you with an even greater experience as we join together to worship and praise our Holy Savior while we fellowship and grow in His Word and the power of his might.
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Once upon a time, when I rededicated my life to the Lord, I decided that part of placing God first in my life was to trust Him first with my money.
This is all relative… (the year, 1976). I had a monthly take home pay of $295. My rent was $150. Food was $100 but I qualified for that much in food stamps at a reduced price of $30 monthly. Utilities were $15 or so for gas company, $30-45 monthly for electric.
I tithed $30 monthly.
The balance of my take home pay went for gas for a VW, insurance, clothing, and etc. That balance amounted to approximately $25 and God s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d it so much that I dressed better than I ever had. My old VW ran and ran and ran without ever adding oil or having a tuneup, much less an oil change. I was so “well off” that I was able to help less fortunate families at my church.
All because I genuinely trusted God with all my money from the first cent to the last!
I still tithe to this day. The numbers still don’t add up! Any accountant would be first to say it’s impossible to “make your ends meet”, that something had to go.
Well, my Almighty God has met every need I’ve had. If you don’t believe this, and haven’t tried that, you haven’t trusted in Him!
I would like to let you know what wonderful things God has done for me over the past three months, as a direct result of being faithful in giving 10% of my income back to Him.
I used to think that giving 10% was only meant for families and individuals who were fairly well off and who would not really miss the 10% in any way. In my opinion, this didn’t include me…
However, I wanted to “test it out” since God actually said, “test me in this” (Malachi 3:10).
The first thing that happened was that after my “at fault” accident on December 17, I was so broke that I feared the traffic ticket that I had to pay. However, when I went to pay it, I was told that it would have to wait several months to be processed in local traffic court. That was my first “financial break”.
The second thing that happened relates to my business. I had experienced a couple of years in a row of lower that usual income. This has already changed considerably since the beginning of this year, without having done anything to search out new business.
I have a home-based business providing translation services. In late December, I was approached out of the blue by two individuals who wanted to work for me as translation contractors, one works from English to French and the other from French to English.
At the time, I actually did not require any help at all, because there wasn’t even enough work to keep me busy. I did, however, keep contact with them.
Then in January, a brand new customer contacted me with work from French to English, which is actually very rare (most of the work I get is the other way around).
I did not know any of these people and I had made no effort to contact anyone about more work. Obviously God sent them – the customers and the workers!
Then God sent the work…
My regular customers were suddenly sending me more work than they had in a long time and I was “swamped”. Fortunately, with the two new competent translators, I was able to distribute the workload.
I was so surprised when, during the last week of the tithing challenge, I had so much work that I had 3 subcontractors plus myself working full time on jobs all at the same time. That means I actually had 4 times the amount of work that I can possibly handle on my own! But God had also sent “workers”, so that was a real blessing.
The verse “Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over” (Luke 6:38) certainly was true in this case. My desk was literally “running over” with work!
As I wait for the payments for all these jobs to come in, I look forward to willingly and gladly giving 10% back to God, who gave it to me in the first place. I pray that I will be a good steward of the rest of my income as well.
One more thing: In January, I started to read a book that I had ordered from a Christian TV program that I watch. The book is called “The Storehouse Principle” and it really helped me to believe what the Bible says about God being the provider and that “the Lord commands a blessing on all that is in your storehouse and all that you put forth your hands to do.” (Deut. 28:8).
If there’s nothing in my “storehouse”, there’s nothing for God to bless.
As a result of the tithing challenge, and as a result of reading this book, I have finally started a strict savings program – in other words, a “storehouse account” so that God has something to bless and I will have something to fall back on in case another period of lack arrives.
Thank you for encouraging us to try tithing. God’s promise in Malachi came true!