I hope the Pastor Scott’s just completed Stewardship message series affected you as much as it did me. Hard as it may be to accept a Business Manager proclaim that we don’t want your money, I echo everything Pastor Scott had to say wholeheartedly. If you haven’t listened to the messages, check them out on the website.
If you were in church on Sunday, 1/15, you know that we didn’t physically collect an offering that morning, because we wanted to emphasize that it’s not about your money. But we wanted to provide a way to give for those who came to church intending to do so. So we placed a box in the lobby in which people could drop their gifts.
What you may not have known is that box was actually a paper shredder; well, not exactly. The week prior, I asked Elaine to setup the offering box, but I took time to explain what we were doing to her, Joan and Karen. During the discussion we identified that we really needed a drop box that was relatively secure. While we were having this conversation, I was sitting next to our paper shredder. It’s actually just a big lock box with a drop slot. When it’s full of paper to be shredded we call the shredder service, they send their truck, which is equipped with shredders out to our location, dump the box in the shredder-truck and give us the empty box back. We realized the box would be the perfect solution to collect the offering, but the concept is amusing.
When we say it’s not about your money, it’s about your life, we’re not kidding. We didn’t just not collect an offering that morning, what we did collect was placed in a shredder!
