Thanks to Mara Andrews for showing me how to hit a basket on a PlaySchool basketball goal. The point was emphasizing Nothing But Nets. We've done this before. It's a program that got started a few years ago. Medically treated malaria nets are purchased for $10 and sent to Africa where they are distributed to families. Each net has the effect of literally saving scores of lives. It's amazing.
This year when people return their 2010 pledge cards indicating their financial support for the church we are going to buy a net. Everyone who pledges will have a net purchased in their name. I hope this is incentive for many people to be very intentional about their tithes and offerings for the coming year.
We want to communicate that Platte Woods UMC intends to be an outward-focused church. We want to communicate that we want to be a mission-minded church.
Tithes and offerings do more than pay operating costs, salaries and things like that. Your tithes and offerings change lives - save lives - literally.
When Mara made the basket I used that to illustrate a net bought and lives saved! Furthermore when she made one (she actually made 2 out of 3) she showed what God expects - 1 out of 10. A tithe. A miracle of what God is able to do in and through the people of God.
It's been a good day - now off to Trunk or Treat.
I hope you've had a good day too.
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