Hope Community Church Niles MI
I love my church! It is made up of the greatest people and great leadership. I have been going there for over 10 years now and I couldn't be happier. I started actually helping out after a year or so of being there by playing guitar for the worship team. I did that for a year or two, then took a year off. Then we finally moved out of a school and into our own building!
Then I was running the sound board, and off and on guitar as they needed it. Then I finally was able to get my schedule changed so I was free Thursday nights to help out with "Hope 4 Teens". After a while I was leading worship for the Jr. high youth group as we were growing big enough to split Sr. high and Jr. high.
Our church continues to boom and grow as the helpful nature and we are always back to the Niles community. One commitment our church has made is to tithe 10% of the budget to outside charities to continue to help other places around Niles. One special thing we often do is if there is a surplus in the budget at the end of the year we donate 10% of that.
This year there was a 5500 dollar surplus. One of the local ministries is a pregnancy care center. The center has been looking to purchase a block away from the abortion clinic where late term abortions happen. Buying this house has been a dream of theres for a long time and the center needed 31,000 for the down payment. They had already raised funds when they had come to the church to give what we call "mission moment". This is where local ministries can talk about what they do. During the service we announced that we were donating 5500 dollars from our surplus, and a unnamed person in the church matched that so we were able to give 10,500 dollars to the pregnancy care center.
This left them 200 dollars short of what they needed for the down payment. Obviously the speaker broke down in tears, as well as did most of the church. Someone stepped up and finished off the last 200 bucks so they can make the down payment on their new building! How awesome is that?!?
This story was too awesome to keep to myself so I thought I would share it with you. Another great example of giving to the community to build not just the church but Niles.
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