Second and foremost I need to give credit where credit is due

Jesus always gets the first credit because he put you wonderful people in my life but I do need to give you the credit for your heart to serve Jesus! So here is my list and if I forgot someone it wasn’t intentional, I love you!

Thank you! Deb, Ed and Juanita, Kristine, and my mom, thank you so much for all of your hard work in setting up for the rummage sale. I think I would have gone bat poop crazy if it were not for you.

Thank you Andrew, Anthony, Matt, Ruben, Zach, Junior, Jay and the boyz! You guys made it very easy to tear everything down and get it to the Salvation Army. Hokey Smokes! I turned around and it was all done, I never expected the amount of help and it was really nice.

You are all amazing brothers and sisters in Christ and I wish everyone could be as lucky as myself, just sayin’

With all of that said, Saturday I ran a rummage sale to make some money for youth missions. We brought in a little over $500, which I think is really good. Everything we sold was donated by people in our church and I made it by “donation only.” So people paid exactly what they wanted too. I never told anyone what they had to pay for anything, which was a really hard concept for people to understand.  A lot of people struggled with my answer of “you tell me what you want to pay” when they asked me how much for everything on the counter.

We received some really nice donations, one of which was a propane grill that had been used maybe once. Someone suggested that we put a “suggested donation” on the grill. At first I was ok with this idea; we do need money for the mission trip.

But as Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another (Proverbs 27:17). I don’t remember if I said anything about the suggested donation or not but while we were setting up on Friday someone made a mention about the widow in Mark 12 and how we need to bless others. What happens if someone only has $2. So I went to sleep Friday night thinking about that particular concept.

When I woke up on Saturday morning I was convinced that I needed to sell the grill for whatever price someone was willing to give me, if they were ripping me off them it was completely on them and had nothing to do with me. They were the ones that are going to have to answers to Jesus.

We did sell the grill for $3. A gentleman came up to me and asked me if it was really all by donations and I said “yes.” He asked if I would take $3 for the grill and I said yes and offered to load it up for him. He came back with a friend and loaded it up.

So maybe that $3 wasn’t the last money in his pocket, I don’t care. It’s not my deal. I feel I did my part. Thank you!