Prayer is the most important way we can support the Home of Grace and we should always remember to include the staff, clients and alumni when we pray.
Bro. Martin Britt has said more than once that he wished the Home of Grace was a three year program instead of a three month program. I have failed since leaving the Home of Grace but with the Holy Spirit’s Intervention, Prayer, and reading God’s word I am walking closer with Jesus each day. To begin my repentance, I went to see my Pastor, Bro. Larry Thompson of the First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale. At the end of a time of Confession and Prayer, Bro. Larry gave me a One Year Bible. This Bible has been a great tool for me. If you have never seen one, this Bible divides the Word into 365 days so the reader is able to read the entire Bible in one year.
I believe an excellent way we Alumni can help our new Alumni is to give each of them a One Year Bible at graduation. I can think of no better way to help continue the study of God’s word that began at the Home of Grace.
Approximately 300 people, all created for God’s Glory, graduate from the Home of Grace each year. After discussing the idea with Bro. Martin, the King James Version of the One Year Bible shipped directly from Tyndale Publishing was chosen. One Bibles cost $13.99, a special price, plus 7.5% for shipping and handling, so the total cost for each Bible is $15.04. The cost of the One Year Bible program is approximately $4,512.00 per year. If 226 Alumni (less than the number of Alumni who graduate each year) would give $20.00 per year the program would be funded until the Trumpet Sounds and Jesus Returns.
An initial gift has provided the program with 142 Bibles. All of these Bibles will be in Alumni’s homes in less than six months. I ask for your prayerful consideration and to commit to supporting the One Year Bible Program. All money sent to the Home of Grace with a note stating the donation is for the One Year Bible Program (“One Year Bible” on the FOR line of a check is sufficient) will be used for this program.
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have enough room for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,” says the LORD Almighty. “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 3:10-12 (NIV)
0 comments:
Post a Comment