Making a Difference

As our Sunscape Church Fellowship begins to pray about and volunteers step out to be a part of the Kid's Hope project at the Eloy elementary schools, I found this fifteen minute Bible study to be helpful in reminding us of >>>The Blessing of Generosity.<<<   Thelma Taylor is leading out in this project.  She and I drove over to Eloy school and spoke with the superintendent and were received graciously.  We are welcome to volunteer to sit with an at-risk child once a week, listening to them read, help them with spelling, encourage them.... in a word, LOVE them.  Each volunteer will be required to pay for a background check which is $65.  Each volunteer will also have a prayer partner back in the park who will be praying for them and their student.  Thelma is paying $35 for her background check and I am paying the rest for her, as she has asked me to be her prayer partner, I also want to help with the cost.  Already, about seven people have told Thelma that they want to be a volunteer.  Thank You, Jesus!  Now I am challenging you to pray for these volunteers and the children they minister to, that they will see Jesus in them.

We are quickly approaching the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.  Check out the possibilities in your community to meet needs and share the love of Jesus.  You will be the most blessed.

2 Corinthians 8:1-9 (New Living Translation)

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2 Corinthians 8

A Call to Generous Giving

¹ Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God in his kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia. ² They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.

³ For I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will. ⁴ They begged us again and again for the privilege of sharing in the gift for the believers in Jerusalem. ⁵ They even did more than we had hoped, for their first action was to give themselves to the Lord and to us, just as God wanted them to do.

⁶ So we have urged Titus, who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return to you and encourage you to finish this ministry of giving. ⁷ Since you excel in so many ways—in your faith, your gifted speakers, your knowledge, your enthusiasm, and your love from us—I want you to excel also in this gracious act of giving.

⁸ I am not commanding you to do this. But I am testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches.

⁹ You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich.

2 Corinthians 8:15

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¹⁵ As the Scriptures say,

   “Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over,
      and those who gathered only a little had enough.”