Servelloism

Here’s something I’ll never forget from this year: the offerings. I had a mentor tell me one time that one of the greatest indications of spiritual revival is generosity. We broke all the records this year. Chico did the offering the first night and I did it the next two nights. The offerings were very important this year because they were a fleece before the Lord for us as an indication of whether we should return to the Aud or not. Check this out. The first night approximately $5,000 came in. The next night- approximately $6,000. Let me throw a curve ball in here. After Benny got done preaching I felt led to take an offering for him for a house he is opening in Las Vegas that will help get teenage prostitutes off the street. This was done knowing we were still in need of money to continue the Genconference at the Aud. Approximately $10,000 came in for that. Well, that’s 21,000 big ones already. Any youth conference of our size would be blown away by that amount any day of the week. Before the last nights meeting Steve came up to me and said that given the numbers we needed about $6000 to go back to the Aud. Honestly, I have faith for $6000. I just didnt have faith for $6000 from those kids out there. They had already given SO much. I literally saw two girls walk up to the baskets the night before and open their wallets and dump out everything in them – change, and dollars. Before I approached the stage to receive the offering, I just prayed silently to the Lord. I said” God, I know you can supply 6,000 dollars but If you’re in this let there be a miracle tonight. Im being honest. I prayed that but I had little to no faith that it would happen. So you could imagine my shock when Steve came up at the end of the night and told me that close to$13,000 was given. WOW! I’ll remember that for the rest of my life. $34,000 in free will offerings from teenagers and young adults. WOW! I just want to give everybody some perspective on this- our conference attendance this year was similar to what we have had at our most filled regular weekend services at all campuses (including Albany). The total amount collected at the conference was just as much as the tithes and offerings at our weekend services! I hope you catch how amazing that is! Before this conference as we were considering what are next move should be we prayed, God if you want us to keep doing this show us by providing what we need. I think God overwhelmingly answered.