Seventh-day Adventist Church

2003 NAB Offering Call

“Becoming Faithful Stewards”

MULTIPLIED KINDNESS

In Leadership Magazine of Spring, 2000, Glen Zander reported the following story. “The owner of a drive-through coffee business in southwest Portland, Oregon, was surprised one morning to have one of her customers not only pay for her own mocha but also the mocha of the person in the car behind her. It put a smile on the owner’s face to tell the next customer her drink had already been paid for.

The second customer was so pleased that someone else had purchased her coffee that she bought coffee for the next customer. This string of kindness

-- one stranger paying for the drink of the next customer, continued for two hours and 27 customers.”

When we reflect on this story, it reminds us of God’s everlasting love which He showed to us while we were still strangers. “But Christ died for us while we were yet sinners (or strangers) and that is God’s own proof of his love towards us.” (Romans 5:8 NEV.) All he asks of us is to pass it on. "I give you a new commandment:

love one another as I have loved you, so you are to love one another. If there is love among you, then all will know that you are my disciples.” (John 13:34-5 NEV.)

Offering Appeal: Today’s offering is for Conference Evangelism. These funds will used to pass on the Good News of our Saviour’s love and soon return to the 11 million people in our Conference territory.