So I attended Catalyst in Atlanta a few weeks ago, with my new church family and staff, National Community Church. If you are not familiar with Catalyst its a conference for church leaders that numbers about 12,000 every year in October. Its always a great conference and this year was no different. Catalyst has become known for doing big things and doing them on a grand scale.
This year one of the things they did through an organization called Hope International was give all 12,000+ attendees and envelope with $10 in it. Yes, they really did. I thought it was a joke at first. But they were serious. They challenged us to take that $10 and turn it into $100 to send back to Hope International so that they could provide a small loan to someone in another country to help pull them out of poverty. Awesome concept, I love it.
This small gift they can loan has the potential to change the life of a someone in another nation for the rest of their life.
So here’s what I am asking of you. I am obviously going to give $10 which brings us up to $20:) I am asking you to either send me cash for $10 (I am not going to steal it people, good grief I am a pastor:) so that I can place it all in the envelope and send to Hope International or you can make a check out for $10 to Hope International (if you think I am a thief) and mail it to me. You can leave a comment on this blog and I’ll follow up with you to give you my new address.
We only need 8 others to pull someone out of poverty in another nation and give them hope they may have never had. I’d love to give more than just $100 so let’s see what we can do! Be generous!
send me that address