Gifts That Keep On Giving
God blesses at the most unusual times and in the most unusual ways. A few months back I had a couple of friends who wanted to invest significantly in the Operation Barnabas high school ministry training program. They wrote a check for $10,000 to put a down payment on a new 1997 bus we need for this summer. That is quite a financial investment.
This entire spring I have been intending to talk to OB alumni, former leaders, parents of OBers, etc about the remaining need of $7,500 to get this bus rolling. We just obtained this new vehicle and are currently putting the racks in the back. Next week I will help transport it to IN from PA to get it registered and painted. (Of course it will be painted OB blue) then we pack it up and drive with a group of leaders to OB orientation in Lititz, PA.
Just this week I received a check in the mail for $7500 to finish paying for this OB bus. The gift was from parents of a gal who was on OB last summer. While that is a very large contribution, what amazed me is that I really hadn't done much to ask for it. We had included the need in a letter about OB as well as in our spring things to pray about listing.
I should not be surprised by this kind of thing, but I always am. God supplies, in His time, through His means. And there will be a lot of teens and people in communities and churches that will be blessed because of one family's obedience--not to what I or anyone else asked of them--but to what God laid on their hearts. This is a gift that will keep on giving.
And now I need to write a letter asking for funds so that these 91 OB teens and their 16 adult leaders will have finances to do Hurricane Katrina relief in Mississippi at the end of their summer tour. Or maybe someone will read this, have God tug at their heart, and they will write a check to cover the whole thing. It's all good. God does it in His way and through His means.
This entire spring I have been intending to talk to OB alumni, former leaders, parents of OBers, etc about the remaining need of $7,500 to get this bus rolling. We just obtained this new vehicle and are currently putting the racks in the back. Next week I will help transport it to IN from PA to get it registered and painted. (Of course it will be painted OB blue) then we pack it up and drive with a group of leaders to OB orientation in Lititz, PA.
Just this week I received a check in the mail for $7500 to finish paying for this OB bus. The gift was from parents of a gal who was on OB last summer. While that is a very large contribution, what amazed me is that I really hadn't done much to ask for it. We had included the need in a letter about OB as well as in our spring things to pray about listing.
I should not be surprised by this kind of thing, but I always am. God supplies, in His time, through His means. And there will be a lot of teens and people in communities and churches that will be blessed because of one family's obedience--not to what I or anyone else asked of them--but to what God laid on their hearts. This is a gift that will keep on giving.
And now I need to write a letter asking for funds so that these 91 OB teens and their 16 adult leaders will have finances to do Hurricane Katrina relief in Mississippi at the end of their summer tour. Or maybe someone will read this, have God tug at their heart, and they will write a check to cover the whole thing. It's all good. God does it in His way and through His means.
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