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YOUR MISSION'S BUDGET What is a reasonable financial expectation of giving for each church? Every Pastor would love to have their entire congregation tithe. It is God's plan of provision for the needs of the local church. Almost every pastor teaches that those who tithe will be blessed. Malachi 3:10 says, "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test me now in this," says the Lord of Hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows." Simultaneously, churches that tithe to world missions find that they are blessed and that God pours out an abundance upon them. Tithing = Blessings! How can pastors expect their congregation to tithe and be blessed if the church itself is not committed to tithing? Mission Giving Churches = Blessed Churches Faith Assembly, Orlando, Florida Faith Orlando has steadily grown over the past decades to a Sunday attendance in excess of 5000 and recently moved into a new $40 million complex; two thirds of which was paid for with cash. Pastor Stephens believes that there is a direct correlation between giving to world missions and God's blessing upon the church. First Assembly, Fort Myers Pastor Dan Betzer shepherds a congregation of over 8,000 and is considered one of the greatest mission minded pastors in the Assemblies of God. He relates how his finance pastor came to him at the beginning of the downturn with a very negative report on the church's finances. Pastor Betzer responded, "I guess there is only one thing we can do. We will have to add another dozen missionaries to our monthly giving." Crazy? Perhaps. But Pastor Betzer goes on to say that from that moment on church finances grew and they had greater monthly church income during the downturn than they had before. East Pointe Assembly, Tamp Florida The million dollar question is, "How?" Often pastors who have committed to tithe the churches income to world missions have adopted a very powerful approach: they raise the tithe equivalent in monthly faith promises from their congregations.
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