Yesterday

This past week someone from another house church called my girlfriend and asked if there was anyway for us to loan them money to pay some bills. They needed a temporary loan. They are due to receive some money in the next month but don't have enough right now to pay those bills. They asked if we could loan them the money and then they would pay back half in December and half in January.

In the past, my girlfriend and I have always tried to help in a situation like this. We wanted to help this time but we also felt it was a great situation to let our house church help as well.

We brought this up during our midweek bible study and we asked everyone to pray about it and decided that yesterday's tithe would go to this family. Since this family asked for a loan and wanted to pay it back we also decided that we would save this money, after it's repaid, to add on to future tithes so that we would be ready to help when the next need arises.

You need to know that people in our house church aren't wealthy people. Some don't have jobs, some have just started new jobs, some have debt and all of us have monthly financial struggles.

The amount needed to help this family was more (by alot) than this house church family has ever given on any given Sunday.

What happened?

The entire amount was met for this family.

To me, it was nothing short of a miracle.

This house church family gave so sacrificially. It was an amazing thing to be a part of.

My girlfriend called this couple last night to tell them the good news about them being able to pay their bills. She also took a teaching opportunity to let them know that it wasn't the American's that did everything. It was their Brasilian family that took care of their need.

I know the Bible speaks against being proud but I must confess how proud I am to be a part of this house church family.

It's such a blessing to be a part of this group.