Friday - I'm Coming Down
This is the longest I have ever been on the roof. Media coverage was minimal this year - has been more in past years. We haven't reached our goal as of 11 a.m. Friday morning - but we have collected we'll over $4,000 - that's certainly more than we had Monday morning.
Many thanks my congregation who spent hours here collecting and standing together with me in this. What a team! Many thanks to all who donated - it will be given out promptly and fully. And if you want to continue to donate - we'll leave the link up for a few more days, or you can send it to the church.
Some might say we failed because we didn't reach our goal of $25,000 - I choose to define failure as not trying at all. Certainly it has been draining - I have not left the roof at all since Monday morning. But I'm glad to do what I feel God wants me to do.
Many thanks my congregation who spent hours here collecting and standing together with me in this. What a team! Many thanks to all who donated - it will be given out promptly and fully. And if you want to continue to donate - we'll leave the link up for a few more days, or you can send it to the church.
Some might say we failed because we didn't reach our goal of $25,000 - I choose to define failure as not trying at all. Certainly it has been draining - I have not left the roof at all since Monday morning. But I'm glad to do what I feel God wants me to do.
posted by David Martin at
10:59 AM
2 Comments:
We'll never know how much money was really raised. But, you raised awareness of a growing problem in today's society - normal, ordinary people who walk a line and don't always have enough money to just do a little extra. Even if you just look at the money that came to the church, we know we fed 400 families a turkey or ham this holiday season. And that, my friend, is a blessing indeed. The Lord banishes your discouragement with a message in your heart of "You did good, my child."
Pastor Dave, you made me proud to be an Assemblies of God minister. Way to go!
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