Anyone could do that!

we were not able to start a ministry because
we had made a decision that until we had a
budget for one year of ministry, we would not
begin. The budget would include the rental of a
facility for evangelism and counseling ministry,
support for a large team of godly Filipina ladies
for evangelism and discipleship, a small van,
discipleship material, food and many other
expenses. As the budget was $55,000, Ron said
that we would probably never begin because, as
a small mission, how could we ever come up
with that huge amount of money?
As he continued his report, he began to hear
people tear checks out of their checkbooks.
He suddenly realized what was happening, and
because the elders had informed him that they
would not be taking an offering, he stopped
and said, “I think you might be writing checks
for ACTION’s ministry, but please do not
do so, as we have no permission to take an
offering.” However, the people continued
to write checks and there was a continuous
rustling noise of checks being torn out of
checkbooks.
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