Generosity Revolution

A reminder ....

A reminder ...

How much is enough?

Enough

GroundUp: South Africa’s 5-million working poor | Daily Maverick A study by University of Cape Town economist Arden Finn to determine the wage level at which a worker and his or her family could be brought up to the poverty line found R4,125 was the carefully qualified answer. Unsurprisingly, 95% of those employed in domestic services and 90% of those in agricult…

How will we know we have given enough?

How Will I Know I Have Given Enough? I am advocating that individual Christians and church communities stop thinking of serving others as a line in a budget of many competing priorities, and begin to think about emulating God’s grace as central to the mission of the Body, and around which all other decisions are made.

"The Franciscan School found a way to be both very traditional and very revolutionary at the same time by emphasizing practice over theory. At the heart of their orthopraxy was the practice of paying attention to different things (nature, the poor, humility, itinerancy, the outsider, mendicancy, and mission instead of shoring up home base and 'churchiness')." - Fr. Richard Rohr

What a wonderful opportunity we had this week, invited by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to speak at the bishops forum with the Cape Town Diocese. We handed out 40 Generosity Revolution campaign packs to the clergy in attendance and are praying that they will be blessed by the material and find a way to use it in their congregations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
“Now girls are often raised to see love only as giving. Women are praised for their love when that love is an act of giving. But to love is to give AND to take.
Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence.”
Hi there Generosity revolutionaries... I think that this quote is not limited to women and girls but is true for all human beings. Any thoughts?

Fantastic time preparing a group of churches to run Generosity Revolution as a campaign in their church later this year. If you'd still like to explore this for your church please feel free to get in touch with us.