Hopefully you’ve noticed Daybreak becoming an increasingly important part of where God is leading us in The Gathering.  The intersection between a college ministry and a ministry seeking to transform the lives of some amazing kids is an obvious one.  I know so many Gathering students who have a passion for serving children and Daybreak reaches so many young people in the Lincoln Heights community who need your gifts, your time and your love.

If you’ve never been to Daybreak, I hope you’ll head down there at least once during these last few weeks of the fall semester.  Check our website for the next day your campus is headed to Lincoln Heights.  By the way, all of us are converging on Daybreak for the annual Turkey Outreach on Saturday, November 21st, so you can go ahead and put that on your calendar now.

But at our Gatherings this week, you’re going to have the chance to support Daybreak financially.  It’s a pretty rare thing that we take a special offering like this at The Gathering, so I wanted to start getting us ready for it now.  First of all, you’ve gotta know that everything you give this week goes straight to the kids of Daybreak.  This isn’t a fund The Gathering thing or a write a check to MBC moment.  It’s a chance to be a part of what God is doing in a community desperate for hope.  If you feel God leading you to give, I pray you will be faithful to that.  By the way, don’t feel bad if you don’t have much to give.  Jesus is honored by the desire more than the amount.  One day Jesus observed people bringing their offerings to the temple.  Many wealthy people gave much but there was a poor widow who had little to give but did anyway.  Luke tells us how Jesus felt about that, “He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ’I tell you the truth,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.’” – Luke 21: 2-4

I should also say that if you don’t feel the Lord leading you to give, you shouldn’t.  God loves a cheerful giver not someone who does it out of guilt or compulsion.  God has a plan to fund Daybreak.  He’s going to keep building His church.  No guilt trip here.  Just pray about it.

I’m excited to see how God is going to use a group of college students to provide for the needs of some kids desperate for hope.