II. GIVING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORTS

A. Personal Conviction on Giving
14. For me, giving is (multiple answers allowed)
a. commanded by God so every Christian must give 19 79.2%
b. commanded by God, but He will understand if I don’t for a valid reason 2 8.3%
c. my partnership with God 16 66.7%
d. my privilege 17 70.8%
e. beneficial only to the receiver, its benefit for me is at least I obeyed God 2 8.3%
f. beneficial to me in many aspects 13 54.2%
g. a social and spiritual duties and responsibilities 8 33.3%
h. dependent on my financial capacity 3 12.5%
i expression of my gratitude 17 70.8%
k a burden 0 0.0%
l I have more thoughts, I want to explain. (Use the voice out box) 1 4.2%
Votes so far 24 100.0%
15. I consider the money I give to the following as part of my giving (multiple answers allowed)
a money given to church and other Christian ministries and their workers 24 96.0%
b other charitable organizations 15 60.0%
c needy individuals 19 76.0%
d poor 12 48.0%
e relatives/parents 10 40.0%
f my personal ministry expenses 9 36.0%
g friends 7 28.0%
h I have more thoughts, I want to explain. (Use the voice out box) 0 0.0%
Votes so far 25 100.0%
B. My personal conviction on giving to the Navs.
16 My giving or not giving to the Navs is generally affected by:
a. my Perception of the Navs as organization 4 16.0%
b. my perception of the staff. 5 20.0%
c. my personal Belief on Giving 15 60.0%
d. I have more thoughts, I want to explain. (Use the voice out box) 1 4.0%
Votes so far 25 100.0%

SOME COMMENTS ON THE SURVEY

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Friday, April 3, 2009

You've Put the Words of What is in My Heart

Mga Igsoon ko,
Gatulo akong luha in reading your emails today.
Firstly, thank you very much Ren for losening up and openning up. Honestly I dreaded the scenario that I will be push to choose to delete anyone in this egroup.. So I was really praying hard that love, tolerance, acceptance and embracing oneanother would prevail even if we have different preferences. .. Thank you too for your advice. BTW we are in Bangladesh not in Cambodia. But please do not let me stop thinking and praying for our root, figuratively, I will die if I would be disconnected with you people (hehehehe).. We doing fine in our adjustment, although we have to really burn candles in our language study. Its really difficult, they said Bangla is the next hardest language next to Chinese. We are also getting meaningful frienships with some locals.
Rub, you've put the words of what is in my heart...haay tulo na pud ako luha. How I desire to to see our CebuNavs community what you have seen in Acts, and what the Moravian C did a century ago. Yes all did their part to advance the Kingdom accoding to the role that God gave them. They go to place in group, some doing business some working and some and handling the Word but they as a community is creating an impact hard to resist by the locals becuase of the life the've shown as a loving community. This is actually the heart of vision of the Navs today.
Now how do we apply this in Cebu Navs community? We have a base Min. in Cebu and we are all scattered all over the world? I think what you are sharing now could be the answer.. Mga Igsoon, God is so gacious to us that He would open our eyes to the opportunity to be partners with Him. He blessed with people who can do fulltime min work. 40% of the fulltime Navs Staff are form CebuNavs, and 83% who left the Phils as Navs and went overseas with Missi... in mind .. are also form Cebu. I think we are beginning to see that He has also blessed many of us the capacity to earn not only for ourselves but most of all, to be His partners in the furtherance of His Kingdom. At the end of the day mga igsoon ko, its not how high we have climb the ladder of success that will give us "Life" but its the King and giving ourselves to the furtherance of His Kingdom that will. Our King has promised us that He came to give us Life and have it abundantly.. .As a community let's start living abundantly by being consumed with Him and His Kingdom..
Lastly di gyud ko maimutang kung di ko makaappreciate sa mga tirada ni Bay Venric... lupig pay abogado ug mga philosophers of the past.... Saludo na pod ko bay venric..

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