Generosity Changes Thinking

The culture of generosity at KUMC continues to grow!

I have to first say thank you. THANK YOU!

Thank you to every person who gives generously to this community. Thank you for giving your time and energy, but also for your generous giving of money. It truly, truly makes a difference!

We'll talk more about money and generosity next month in our series, Tithes & Offerings & Other Miracles. But leading up to that, I want you to recognize what your generosity is doing in a really profound way.

I hope you've seen or been part of the obvious fruits. The amazing work of Summer Table. The incredible gift of the Baby Pantry. The guest artists we've invited to lead worship. The freedom from financial stress carried by the congregation.

Praise God!

AND, behind all of that is something absolutely God-inspired.

Behind the wonder of what's happening today is a growing excitement about what could be next. Across the congregation, I've heard questions like:

+ Could Summer Table grow to cover the whole summer, or serve twice as many kids?

+ Could the Baby Pantry become a storefront on Knightdale Boulevard?

+ Maybe we could host a summer basketball camp at Beaverdam?

+ What can we do for the kids at Beaverdam who don't have a place to call home?

I know you can hear the excitement in these questions. I know you can see the goodness possible.

But what I want you to realize is that these questions point to a growing culture of dreaming about what's possible with God.

Paul writes that God can accomplish "abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine." (Ephesians 3:20)

What I've learned in my years of ministry is that money can easily become a blockade for ministry when it's lacking. And the inverse is something even greater.

Get the worry of money out of the way, and the people of the church become alive with the wonder of possibility. We become what we were created for: to tend to the world around us and praise God along the way.

So when I say thank you, I want you to see what I see when I say it.

Your generosity changes the way a whole community thinks.

And I have a good sense that there's no upper limit on what God can do through a community of people thinking that way.

From the heart,

Rev. Steph Margeson