giving

Recently I had breakfast at McDonalds – my meal cost me $6.15 and I enjoyed it very much.  As I drove away I suddently realised something.  Millions of people around the world are in extreme poverty, living on less than $1 a day, and I just ate a weeks wor

We have always tried to teach our children to be generous – and a part of this is that we tell them they need to give away ten percent (10%) of all their income every week when we attend church.  Our children get $5 a week pocket money for which they do chores.  Ten percent of this is a mere 50 cents. 

Australia is broken up into about 150 areas called Electorates for voting purposes. The electorate I live in is called Capricornia.

A few weeks ago I was reading the Courier Mail and noticed an article comparing the giving of people to charities by electorate. The most generous electorate was Wentworth (from memory) in Sydney where they gave on average 4% of their income to charity. We commend the people of that electorate.

You may remember reading a few blogs ago about how we picked up a shed for just $65 and were going to use it as part of our church ministry in Mt Morgan. Anyway during the week the people in our church unanimously agreed to give our shed away to someone more needy than we are. We have a valued friend and brother who is living on his land in a tent and we have decided to bless him with our shed. He graciously accepted our offer. Although we don't have a shed now, the fact that we have given it away is like planting a seed that will turn into a plant and give us fruit later on.