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Originally Posted by commonsense
By giving they'll always be blessed.
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From 1992 to 2006 I went to a church in the Cincinnati area called The Vineyard Community Church. There are about 25 Vineyard congregations in this area of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky that have sprung from this congregation. In some cases the pastors of those new church plants were trained/apprenticed in our church and helped financially when they branched out.
I know of two times our church helped other churches (non-Vineyard churches) financially to get buildings so they could continue their ministries. One church I don't know the details about but there was some problem with someone (contractor I think) who took their money and disappeared and the Vineyard gave them enough to continue their program and complete the church. In another instance, our Vineyard gave $800 thousand to another congregation so they could buy our building from us when we were trying to build another building. On the 20th anniversary year of the Vineyard in Cincinnati, they gave $20,000 each month to some other church or ministry in this area. I wasn't going to the Vineyard at that time but the director of Operation Serve told me that they were the recipient of the gift one month and it allowed them to buy a building for their ministry in Mexico City. Operation Serve already had much of the money but the amount the Vineyard gave them was enough to add to their money and meet the purchase price of the building they wanted.
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