During Connections Hour at 11am on Sunday, October 27, Ami will talk about the Love Let Go experience and the power of generosity. Join her at Winnetka Presbyterian, 1255 Willow Road in Winnetka.
Radical Generosity for the Real World
In September 2014 LaSalle Street Church handed out $500 checks to its congregants, with the instruction to do God’s work in the world. This was a real-world experiment in generosity.
Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the Real World is the story of these real people experiencing real freedom. And repeatedly that freedom began with small hesitant steps of generosity that became a way of life.
While it is the story of one church, it is the larger story of generosity and its potential when unleashed by you, me, and everyone else inhabiting this divinely and beautifully created planet. It is the story of loving and letting go.
During Connections Hour at 11am on Sunday, October 27, Ami will talk about the Love Let Go experience and the power of generosity. Join her at Winnetka Presbyterian, 1255 Willow Road in Winnetka.
In this post, Rev. Janet Karvonen-Montgomery shares how her personal experience of receiving an unconventional loan led her to use her $300 windfall to lend to others.
Reverend Patrick Joiner’s distribution of one-dollar bills reminds us of Dan West’s walk through his neighborhood (chapter 5 of the Love Let Go). Read more about Patrick’s experience here.
Pastor Betsy Hoium spread her $300 windfall across generations. She shares in her blog that she learned “money is a human creation and a means, but not an end. In the best of circumstances money can be used to love God and love neighbor — doing God’s work in the world, thinking of others before ourselves and providing opportunities to develop our God-given gifts.”
The second blog from the Love Let(s) Go pastor retreat comes from Rev. Horacio Castaldo who gave his surprise $300 windfall to the Union Gospel Mission, a ministry that preaches Christ to people who have lost everything due to drug or alcohol addiction. Read more here: https://www.spas-elca.org/generosity-spreads-gospel/
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