I love my church! We are truly striving to be Christ right here in our community. We planted our church right in the middle of the "bad" part of town and chosen to throw ourselves into the "projects" to show His love, all the while taking care of our own body. Once a month, we take up a love offering. The elders pray over it and seek God on who in our church needs it. It has grown so much that it is now split into two love offerings that we bless two families with once a month. We have also purchased cars for several families in need. But this week, God blew me away.
Last Sunday, our pastor gave the history and vision of our church. He mentioned one specific lady (Samantha) that encompassed what our church feels God wants us to do. Samantha had grown up in the projects with a family that were addicts or in jail or just not around. She had two daughters while she was still a teenager and was raising her sister as well. Those three little girls came to a children's outreach we had provided in their neighborhood and went home begging to go to church. So Samantha took them and fell in love with Jesus. As she got plugged in, she slowly saw that life could be different; living in poverty didn't have to be her way of life. She got a job, started saving money and got a car. She began leading a Life group at church and living out who God created her to be! Our pastor said that those in the community we are in don't even know to have a hope for something better, which saddens me. This is all they know.
Samantha has recently been house hunting and for the first time, she and her daughters and sister she is raising will get to live in a house. God did amazing things to open up an opportunity for her to purchase a nice house a bit out of her price range, but with God all things are possible and Samantha is in the final processes of purchasing this house!! Our pastor wanted us to bless her in this endeavor so before we ended services on Sunday he gave us the address and time and told is to come out and pray over the house Tuesday evening. (Samantha was not at church on Sunday, so this was a surprise to her) He also said he wanted us to bless her financially if possible, so he wanted us to listen to God and whatever God told you to give, just be obedient in that.
I knew God would multiply whatever we gave, but never did I think to this magnitude!! He does far more than we can ever think of Him doing and He never ceases to amaze me!
Here is the video of us blessing Samantha.
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