| From Candace Vogt, Founder-Mission813
Our annual Giving Day is only one week away and I want to share with you why Mission813 does what it does. Take a minute to look at the faces in the banner above. Some are the faces of our church planters and leaders. These are the women who give sacrificially of their time. They are women who have chosen to embrace a community. They use their homes to do life with others. They use their couches to hold the hands of others when life hits hard. They squeeze extra room at their tables to listen to life stories and to share the sweet news of redemption. They use their cars to give rides to women who have no transportation. They advocate for children that schools have overlooked. They pray with those who have no one to pray with or over them. These are the women Mission813 seeks to serve.
Take another look. You’ll see the faces of women who have learned about the way of Jesus while in the church planter’s homes. Women who have found a community to love them and support them. Women who desperately need to know there is redemption even after decisions which have left them scarred and weak.
As I write I am again challenged to be like the women of Luke 8:1-3. I recognize modern disciples, like the women above, need my support and I have chosen to support these disciples out of my own means and conviction–the conviction that God’s love and grace is best extended not from a pulpit or a Bible class but from a kitchen table, between tears over a cup of coffee, or with a ride to a doctor’s office. This is why I give to Mission813.
Mission813 enthusiastically raises money for Mission Alive to help recruit, train and coach so that we can serve more faces like the ones above. WOULD YOU JOIN US BY GIVING GENEROUSLY ON AUGUST 13 (8.13), OR BETTER YET, GIVE TODAY? All gifts given over the next week made with a designation of 813 will go to our Giving Day goals. If you also want to join us in encouraging these women on a more personal level, please email me at mission813@missionalive.org
Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means. Luke 8:1-3 |
