A Story about Transformational Giving ..

(I copied this from an email I received)

I wanted to share a quick story about an organization we’ve been privileged to work with over the past few months. Coastal Carolina Pregnancy Center is the pregnancy center that serves Morehead City and the surrounding area and has done so for the last 25 years. In honor of their 25th year they held their annual banquet last week. By way of background, this organization (staff & board) has faithfully participated in Mission Increase’s local trainings when possible, sat in on every webinar since joining with the foundation, and taken advantage of the coaching that we’ve been able to provide - liberally. They were faithful to the Mission Increase banquet model and while the results are staggering, it should be appreciated that all this was accomplished just with training, coaching, much prayer...and a massive amount of hard work on their part.

Here is the comparison of the figures from 2010 and 2011:

CCPC 2010 Banquet: CCPC 2011 Banquet:

-150 attendees - 570 attendees

-$9,000 raised - $183,000 raised ($17K of event was event sponsorships)

- That’s the equivalent of 2 yrs. of operating funds for them

- Avg. per person of $320

Even more – 53 individuals (over 60% of them men) committed to engage the cause in a deeper way in the year ahead by joining in the work and walking alongside the young men and women facing these unplanned pregnancies.

Another fun story. The gentlemen doing "the ask" decided (after spending the day at the center) that there were some tangible needs that he felt the liberty to make known. So, of his own volition he proceed to tell about the “wimpy” 19” TV that they use for client counseling and how the center needed something more! So, he challenged someone (he didn’t know who, but he thought that someone there might be interested) to go down to Wal-Mart and buy them a 30” flat screen so they could show their materials to the girls so they could actually see it. And you guessed it, first thing the next morning, there was a gentlemen at the door holding a new 30” flat screen TV. And according to Christine the gifts keep coming.

There’s more I could tell, but I’ll close with Christine’s assessment of the night; which I agree with. She said, “Justin, what happened last night was amazing. The cause of life won the night, a strong vision was cast, the Spirit of God moved mightily, and Christ was made much of!” That’s a heck of an event…what an amazing privilege it is to serve ministries in these ways. In light of our new model of training, coaching, and granting, one of our own pointed out, "instead of giving them a 15K grant, you gave them training and a new skill that opened them to a whole new transformational world! They can repeat this year after year. God is good!"

-Justin