It's Friday and time for another Life Change Inbox! I have been sharing some of the wonderful emails my husband gets, where people share the work God is doing in their lives through Elevation Church. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:2-4 that our lives are living letters written so that God might be glorified.
Kelly is a case manager for one of our longest standing outreach partners, Safe Journey, an organization that serves the teen mothers of our community (I have blogged about them here and here before). Kelly is also attends our Elevation Uptown campus. Here is her story about how love week continues all over Charlotte because of our Elevators' generosity...
I wanted to write you all about an answer to prayer, and share a story of how Elevators are continuing to impact our community through their generosity. I have the privilege of being one of the Case Managers for the Safe Journey Program. I have been overjoyed and blessed to have the opportunity for my church and my job to collide. I have been able to see the amazing pouring out of God's love through the support and generosity of the church towards our organization.
Every year we throw a Summit for our RISE participants. These are a select group of teen mothers from our program that display leadership potential and qualities. My charge for this event was to gather donations in all sorts of different forms for raffle prizes, and gift bags for the girls. I immediately went to my two eGroup’s that I attend, and told them our need. Within the day, I had responses of donations in money, gift baskets, and donations from the companies they work for.
A couple weeks later, I was able to meet with our new Elevation Liaison and give her a report that ALL but one person that had donated so far was from Elevation church. I am so blessed to be a part of a church that takes action and follows up their convictions with a movement of generosity that is an obvious outpouring of God's love towards those they've never even met, and may never.
Love Week hasn't ended, and I'm quite sure that it won't anytime soon.
Love, Kelly
Sorry Im unsure how to email but i wanted to say thanks to Holly for your blog - Im from Sydney Aus & attend c3 church thirroul (wollongong 1 hours sth syndey) and Ive loved reading your posts, my husband is the assistant minister at our church and preaches a lot - thats his gifting, he's wonderful & although I live with him I love sitting under his preaching & to read of your church and life is very encouraging - we are not running a church (yet!) we love our church and our pastors & we know God's calling us - sometimes with a hubby that works fulltime as a miner, partime paid staff at church and preaching lots im learning how to be a preachers wife also...thanks for your example & wisdom. I have so many questions on how to best support him, my family and how to handle the expectations and eyes on me, though after I read an interview today, that is old cause you only have the boys but reading your words "I want to embrace the position God has given me and make it mine. Not to try to mimic the way someone else views their role but to embrace my role and anointing with my personality" I am more rested in who I am in my situation and my church and with my kids, it caused me to realize to be the wife and cheer leader of my hubby as God calls me to be is what I need to be doing with my time & life & while getting advice is certainly up there for me, to first get direction & advice from God is where I need to turn...thank you! I look forward to seeing your hubby at c3 presence conference in sydney (my husband is super excited to hear him 'in the flesh') you both encourage us from afar to be faithful to what God asks of us! thank you! sorry its in a random comment section here...kindest regards, Kristy Elliott
Posted by: kristy elliott AUS | March 26, 2012 at 09:44 PM