We're Tearing Down the Wall of Debt!

Tomorrow morning, Sunday, February 1st, we are kicking off a forty-eight week campaign to pay off our building debt! As of December 31, 2008, our balance was about $143,000.00. During 2009, our regular mortage payments will reduce that amount by $48,000.00, leaving a balance of $95,000.00.

The "Tearing Down the Wall of Debt" Campaign asks every actively attending family in our church to sacrifice each week by giving additional funds over and above our regular giving and designating that money to pay off the debt several years early. Over the next forty-eight weeks, our seventy active families only have to average $28.27 per week each to pay off this debt by the TARGET DATE OF DECEMBER 27, 2009! Some will be able to give more than this and some will give less - but if everyone gives what they can, this God-glorifying Goal will be met.

As I write this note, we are thirteen hours away from our first offering, and we already have received $4,000.00 toward this goal! We will have a display of 95 bricks on the altar of the church representing $1,000.00 of debt for each brick. Each week, we will remove the number of bricks that represent the amount of money that has come in to that date. Tomorrow morning, we will already be able to remove four of the bricks!

Lin and I have decided on a sacrifical amount to give toward this exciting goal and our first check will be in the offering tomorrow! I hope you will join with us in this church-wide effort to glorify God by paying off this debt!

A godly man in our church commented to me last week, "It is just like God to lead us to do this in the most financially difficult year since 1929." Yes, God's timing is always right on time! Beloved ones, we are going to sacrifice together, honor God together, save lots of interest by doing this together; and, BEST OF ALL - WE ARE GOING TO WITNESS AND CELEBRATE A MIRACLE!