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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
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Channel Shift: Online holiday gift spending grew to 22% from 20% a year ago. Correspondingly, gift spending in brick and mortar stores dropped to 72% from 74%. Catalogs held ...read more
Tags: Giving General
Gift Shoppers An estimated 10% of today’s $2.6 trillion retail market is spent buying gifts. For retailers that means 1 out of every 10 customers in their store has a gift shopping need. This offers marketers the potential to expand their business by ...read more
Christianity Today (5/05) reports the value of hours U.S. volunteers worked in ’04 is $272 billion at $17.55 per ...read more
Gift bags account for 33% of the $2.7 billion spent annually on gift wrap products. Tissue paper comprises 12%.(Foster ...read more
Online Donations to the biggest U.S. charities surged 63% last year from ‘03, finds a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study. The 164 groups surveyed raised a combined $166.2 million online. That is less than 1% of the total raised by most of the charities, but the growth will spur more online ...read more
Gift Buyers: An estimated 10% of today’s $2.6 trillion retail market is spent to buy gifts for one person to give to another. For retailers that means 1 out of every 10 customers in their store has a gift shopping need. This offers marketers, the potential to expand their business by ...read more
U.S. Individuals Out Give G8: The G8 has proposed to cut debt among some African nations by giving up to $40 billion. That is a lot of money, but far less than the $249 billion given to charity by individuals, and corporations in ’04. Of this, $88 billion went to religious organizations. The Barna ...read more
The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability reports that the combined income of their 1,177 non-profit ministry members is $14 billion. ...read more
Greeting Card Market Data • 86% of the U.S. population buys greeting cards. 80% of shoppers will need a card in the next two weeks. • 91 million U.S. households buy greeting cards. • The average Christian consumer has purchased more than 4 cards in the last 3 months. • Every card ...read more
Wal-Mart donated $1 million and several secure servers to the Salvation Army to help Katrina victims. (Foster ...read more
50% of Fortune 500 companies have policies prohibiting them from giving to faith-based groups. (Foster ...read more
U.S. charitable giving rose 11.6% in ’04 over ’03, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The United Way topped the list with $3.9 billion received followed by The Salvation Army at ...read more
Consumers intend to spend an average of $248 on gift cards this holiday season, up from $223 in ‘04 and $183 in 2003 finds a Stored Value Systems ...read more
Have you ever heard the story of DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA? Don Quixote was called the KNIGHT OF THE SORROWFUL COUNTENANCE! Don Quixote was a knight, he had a horse, he had full armor, and knew important people. Don seemed to have some mental problems. Don decided to go to battle, he grabbed his ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 6:12
Denomination: Assembly Of God
13 million Americans made donations online after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 7 million set up their own hurricane relief efforts using the ...read more
A 1% Difference According to George Barna’s annual giving survey, the typical Christian gives approximately 3% of gross income to charitable causes. It is estimated that a 1% increase in giving in American churches would result in approximately $20 billion per year in ...read more
Redirected Donations: In an October Guidestar survey of nonprofit organizations nearly 80% believed ‘05 natural disasters will cause their end-of-year contributions to be flat or down. In a separate survey conducted by four philanthropy consulting firms, 32% of donors said they diverted some of ...read more
59 million Americans (mostly women) performed volunteer work between 9/01 and 9/02. (Foster Letter ...read more
In ’00, 44% of adults did volunteer work contributing an average of 15 hours per month. (Foster ...read more
Cynicism Undermines Trust: Paul Nelson, President of ECFA, recently quoted Public Sector Research finds that “Pubic confidence in charities is up—but the trust in those charities to carry out ...read more