Story By Pastor Jean

Sunday before last I was teaching my 8-12-year-old students the value of giving, and while teaching, I started discussing the amount that you give. While talking, it was stated whether it’s a dollar or a nickel, it does not matter. Sure enough, like lickety-split, when some students came back from their parents, one had a dollar, and another came back with that proverbial nickel! Really, is that what they mean by,’ be careful about what you ask for because you just might get it!’

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That would be a good place to end this story, but it just doesn’t end there; another student, not even old enough for the class (she is no older than three years old); she was tiny like Tim; she came back with a penny!

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Immediately, I had the presence of mind to put it on display with what Jesus called, “The Widow’s Mites;” its equivalent was less than a penny, but Christ noted that she gave more: others gave out of their abundance, but she gave out of her necessity; they gave out of their wealth, but she gave out of her poverty; they gave and had much more, but she gave and had nothing left.

Christ, like Philadelphia Evangelical Baptist Church, sees the heart in your giving, and like that 2-3 year old little girl, we’ll make a special notation of that whatever you give, it came from your heart.