God has provided funds in His timing and in some AMAZING ways over the past year which has allowed us to take outreach sports camp training to 8 of the 40 countries this past year. One of my all time favorite stories comes from a gift we received from one of our Children’s Ministry pastors.
As with many of our churches, I arrived to meet this particular Children’s Ministry person for a cup of coffee to tell her about UW’s amazing journey towards reaching a MILLION kids for Christ. I had never met her before, but right away our hearts connected as I told her how God was putting together an unbelievable set of miracles to allow UW to tell kids about Jesus worldwide. We had about an hour together and then I was off to meet with another church. When I returned home I sent her a thank-you note for sharing her time with me and allowing me to tell her about UW’s journey. In my note to her, I asked her to personally and prayerfully consider giving a gift of $1,000.00 towards helping us go to these 40 countries.
A couple of months passed……………………..and one day out of the blue a check for $1,000.00 arrived with this story. She said I almost laughed when you asked in your thank-you to have me consider giving a gift of $1,000.00, not because I wouldn’t want to, but because at the time I wasn’t even sure how I was going to pay my own bills. My husband had been unemployed for the past several months and still had no job and we didn’t know how we could even pay what we owed. But, when I heard your story of how God wanted to reach those MILLION kids for Christ worldwide and you asked me to pray about the $1,000.00 gift, that’s just what I did I started praying and it changed my life.
Soon after, I began asking God to allow me to give you the $1,000.00. Money came in to pay our bills, and when I kept praying, the next week exactly $1,000.00 extra showed up in a surprise gift. I knew right away this was the money I had asked God for so I could send it to you. I hesitated a moment knowing that more bills would be coming for us and we still didn’t know where that money was coming from and then I thought NO, I asked God for this money so I could give it away and if I kept it, it would be like keeping manna. So I’m sending it to you, knowing this is where God wants it and knowing He is just as capable of looking after my husbands and my needs in another way.
I called her right away when I received this and told her that the reason God allowed her to have the $1,000.00 was that He knew that she would trust Him enough to give it away even when she didn’t know how her next bills would be taken care of.
Have you trusted God enough with your finances that you will allow Him to use you to give sacrificially to His work, knowing He is the one who is your provider?? I hope you do, it will change your life and you will never be the same!
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