What is Your Church Doing About Haiti

So…what is your church doing about Haiti?

Here’s what our small, 1 year old church did.  We are mostly and African American congregation with about 40 solid members and about 80 in attendance on a good Sunday.  Our offerings will vary from $400 to $1000 on an given Sunday.  We don’t have a lot of expenses compared to other churches our size – we just don’t have all the frills of large churches or most churches of our size that have been around a while.

All that said, we’re grateful for $4oo on Sunday and we used it all for God’s glory.  That said, it was an extremely meaningful and powerful decision for us to give our entire last Sunday’s offering to the Baptist Global Response, Disaster Response offering.  Knowing that 100% of each dollar of the Disaster Response fund goes directly to meet needs is important to a small church like ours. We don’t want 10% or 20% going to administrative overhead.

Our little part is not a sacrifice compared to those who lost their lives and property in Haiti.  Our little part is costly to Christ Fellowship of Memphis – an entire Sunday’s offering is a lot.

Nevertheless – it was a joy for all of us to give this Sunday entirely to the needs in Haiti and to do so through a trusted source.

So…what are you doing about Haiti?