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Last night nearly 100 Restore attenders walked the streets of 13 neighborhoods in the Northland of Kansas City and in Liberty.  Our Replenish objective was to partner with the community to help under resourced families in the Park Hill and Liberty school districts get some school supplies for school when it starts in August.

As I walked the neighborhood with my youngest daughter, Judiann, it was so fun to talk with people and invite them into this adventure of generosity.  People were genuinely excited to help out and very happy were helping them take this initiative. 

I could not be more inspired by the people who call Restore their church home.

Generous - Going Glocal

Sunday at Restore we concluded our series, Chasing the Almighty and we looked at what it means to be generous.  This has been a great series that has expanded our view of money and resources and how we can move from consumed, to free, to generous.  We asked each Restore attender to help us with our local and global intitiaves.  Locally we are dreaming and praying that as a new church plant we could become self supporting this year (a year ahead of schedule).  People responded very postitively and we are well on our way.  This will put us in a much better financial position to reproduce.

Also, we have developed a partnership with C3 Missions.  As a result, last November we took up a special offering to help start a church in Cavaillon Haiti.  On that day we collected $65,000 and had a matching gift of $25,000 for a $90,000 total to help start a church, build a facility and build two children's home on piece of property in Cavaillon.  Since that time another family at Restore decided to fund the third children's home.  So by this summer there will be 120 orphans living in the childrens' homes at Cavaillon. 

It takes $40/month/child for clothing, food, care, education, medical support...basically all living expenses.  We want to have each one of those kids sponsored by a family or individual at Restore.  On Sunday we made our first ask and received a strong response and 50 kids were sponsored on that day.  I am so looking forward to having all 120 sponsored by this summer.  We were able to show the following powerful testimony of Mike and Beth Fox, who started C3.

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Restore Gives Away $64,000

Sunday was one of the most amazing days I have ever experienced.  I am humbled, astounded, and just blown away at the incredible generosity of the people of Restore.   

It was just over a year ago that I was asking God to help us become a generous church….a place where we used the God-given resources we steward to make an eternal impact in the world.   I had no idea that God would answer that prayer at such an early point in the life of this church. 

Sunday at Restore was a major step in becoming a generous church.  We prayed that we could have an offering of $25,000 that would be matched by a supporter outside of Restore for a total of $50,000 to start the church and build a facility in Cavaillon Haiti.  And God did “immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine.”    

As the tally came in, I was speechless.  The total offering received from the weekend at Restore Community Church was $64,050.  That number exceeded anything I could have wrapped my mind around.  That amount included only the offerings from Restore and doesn't include any of the matching funds. 

All I can say is that it is a complete and utter GOD THING.

I can't wait to see thousands of people in Haiti 'find their way back to God' as a result of this generosity.

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