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One of my responsibilities is to disburse the missions budgets to our missionaries overseas every month. I have learnt that it’s not my business to watch the bottomline constantly, or worry about whether there would be funds for the next month to send out.
A few years ago, I had the unusual situation of finding nearly nothing in the mission fund account to remit overseas. Since I used to go to the remittance center on Sunday afternoons to send the funds, I didn’t worry too much about it because surely the collections from the church members would be sufficient to cover the remittances I had to make, which amounted to about S$9,000.
Well, after the service, I took a look at the collection and to my surprise, the funds designated for missions were hardly enough to cover even a quarter of the S$9,000!! Oh my, what happened? Where did all the faithful missions supporters go to? Were they on holiday?? Feeling rather disappointed, I returned home without sending any funds, and wondered what to say to our workers in the Philippines who were expecting their budgets for the month. Finally, I emailed to the missionaries concerned,
“…um, I think you have to fast and pray for this week.”
Fast and pray. Yup, especially if you had no money to buy rice for the table! When Monday arrived, I headed off for work at the big banking corporation I used to be employed in. At lunchtime, I received an SMS text message from the church administrator which went something like this,
“Deb please give me mission funds account number. Someone passed me a cheque by mistake. Supposed to give to you for missions.”
I quickly SMSed back to ask what was the cheque amount.
All right, it wasn’t $9,000.00. If I recalled correctly, it was around $7,400.00, but remember the Sunday collection was about a quarter of $9,000.00, thus the entire sum was more than what was needed! Our missionaries need not fast too many days!
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