Why We’re Doing a Christmas Offering

Since we are a brand new church, everything we are doing is new. Which is exciting because it creates the culture and DNA of what Revolution will be in the future. It also means you have to explain everything because it is new, which is okay because it forces us to know why we are doing it and we get to remind everyone of the mission and what we’re about.

This year for Christmas, we are doing a series called Becoming… and we are talking about the type of people we are and the type of people that Jesus wants us to become. How we bridge that gap.

One of the things we are doing to help in this is partnering with other churches in Tucson for Advent Conspiracy. One of the things we are talking about in this series is becoming generous. I know that people often don’t like it when churches talk about money but money is a huge part of our spiritual journeys. How we handle money and our view of money directly shows where our faith is. It also shows what is important to us and our view of God. As the saying goes, “if you want to know what is important to someone, look at their calendar and bank account.”

As we thought through with this series, what does God want us to become, one of the things that is at the heart of Revolution is to become generous. Which is why we are doing Advent Conspiracy. From November 22 – December 24, you can give to our Christmas offering. This is one of the ways we are hoping to put a dent in hell from Tucson.

We will be giving 50% of our offering to Living Waters International to help in building and repairing wells in Liberia. They are an amazing organization and 100% of the money they receive from churches in Advent Conspiracy goes to wells. They partner with churches and the people in the town to train them in building and repairing wells and paying them a decent wage when they do it. There is no middle man.

The other 50% will go helping Tucson. We get requests from organizations who are helping those with less all the time. We also get requests for helping with paying bills and food needs from those who need help. We want to be able to say yes more than we say no.

Our goal is $3000 above our normal weekly giving. I want you to pray as a family to see how God might be calling you to sacrifice this Christmas season to put a dent in hell from Tucson.