I have such exciting news to share. After looking over our financial
statements for 2020, I noticed that Good News Church gave away $83,569.69 this
year! That is the most we’ve ever done.
(Giving had actually been down toward the end of the year, however, there was some generous giving that took place during the last weeks of 2020.)
In the past I have written, in detail, about how our church handles its finances and about how we give away money for the purposes of missions and mercy. Here are three previous explanations:
(Giving had actually been down toward the end of the year, however, there was some generous giving that took place during the last weeks of 2020.)
In the past I have written, in detail, about how our church handles its finances and about how we give away money for the purposes of missions and mercy. Here are three previous explanations:
- How Good News Church Handles Its Finances
- An Update On Helping The Poor
- What About Supporting Missions
For now, I will just recap by letting you know that Good News has, for
years now, committed to giving away 11% of all income received back out
(typically to other Christian organizations doing different work than we are
doing.) The two main causes that we fund are called “mercy and
missions.” Mercy is our word for “compassion on the poor” and missions
is our word for “funding the teaching of the gospel/Bible.” This year we were
able to give away over $80,000 to these causes:
- Share the Love Ocala
- Interfaith Emergency Services
- Compassion International
- Barnabas Aid
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of Marion County
- Wear Gloves
- Tampa Muslim Outreach
- Unlimited Discipleship
- Acts 29 Church Planting Network
- Women's Pregnancy Center
- Helping Hands Foundation
- Only a Servant Ministries
How crazy is it that the year we were able to give away the most to
missions and mercy was the year of Covid? What a blessing! Let’s pray that God
uses these dollars for His kingdom, and that He continues to use the people of
Good News Church for missions and mercy in our own spheres of influence!
If you are wondering why I would report these things, I suppose I should let you know:
If you are wondering why I would report these things, I suppose I should let you know:
- I think it's nice for you (if you're a contributor) to know where some of your money goes.
- This is a great thing worth celebrating!
- I believe these reports help call attention to what we value. Once you know the number we gave away, you can realize that we could have improved our building, purchased cool equipment or hired more employees to make life easier on us. But we didn't, because we value: kids in foster care, homeless people, children in third-world countries, Muslims, church planting, unwed mothers, persecuted Christians, etc.
