The $20 Challenge
Christmas 2008
Terra Nova Community Church
The Special Christmas Offering. I’ve heard it called a “Birthday Gift for Jesus.” I’ve seen it promoted as a year-end tax write-off. I have also seen wonderful things happen because of the generous spirit people seem to have this time of year.
As Terra Nova prepares for this busy season, we have decided take a different type of offering around Christmas: An offering of stories. Beginning the first Sunday in November we are challenging everyone in our community to take $20 and use it to change the world. The options are only limited to your imagination. You might pool your resources in your Life Group or your family or your ministry team and do something that costs more. You might sponsor a child through an organization. You might buy Christmas presents and change the world for one child in Delaware. Whatever you do, at least do something!
On December 14th we will take up an offering, but this offering will not include money. We want your stories. You might drop a written story about how you used your $20. You might drop in the basket a DVD of a video you did recounting your efforts. You might drop in a CD with pictures of your $20 story.
Then on December 21st we will celebrate these stories. Our Christmas teaching series will be all about how God became man so that He could truly meet our deepest need. And now we are called “the Body of Christ” so that we can continue meeting humanities deepest needs. The question we will face is what are we doing to be truly relevant to the needs of our world. This offering of stories will help us answer that question.
I hope you will join me in becoming the change we are calling for. Join me in engaging our individual and collective imaginations to see how we, as a community of Christ-followers, can make a difference through our stories and our resources. Join me in the $20 Challenge.
If you are interested in joining our $20 Challenge but you don't attend Terra Nova, feel free to email me your stories and we will include them.
Under the Mercy,
Jason
Christmas 2008
Terra Nova Community Church
The Special Christmas Offering. I’ve heard it called a “Birthday Gift for Jesus.” I’ve seen it promoted as a year-end tax write-off. I have also seen wonderful things happen because of the generous spirit people seem to have this time of year.
As Terra Nova prepares for this busy season, we have decided take a different type of offering around Christmas: An offering of stories. Beginning the first Sunday in November we are challenging everyone in our community to take $20 and use it to change the world. The options are only limited to your imagination. You might pool your resources in your Life Group or your family or your ministry team and do something that costs more. You might sponsor a child through an organization. You might buy Christmas presents and change the world for one child in Delaware. Whatever you do, at least do something!
On December 14th we will take up an offering, but this offering will not include money. We want your stories. You might drop a written story about how you used your $20. You might drop in the basket a DVD of a video you did recounting your efforts. You might drop in a CD with pictures of your $20 story.
Then on December 21st we will celebrate these stories. Our Christmas teaching series will be all about how God became man so that He could truly meet our deepest need. And now we are called “the Body of Christ” so that we can continue meeting humanities deepest needs. The question we will face is what are we doing to be truly relevant to the needs of our world. This offering of stories will help us answer that question.
I hope you will join me in becoming the change we are calling for. Join me in engaging our individual and collective imaginations to see how we, as a community of Christ-followers, can make a difference through our stories and our resources. Join me in the $20 Challenge.
If you are interested in joining our $20 Challenge but you don't attend Terra Nova, feel free to email me your stories and we will include them.
Under the Mercy,
Jason
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