Encouraging supporters JOIN the revive Campaign

This story of new life and transformation, is part of our 'REVIVE 2011 Spring Campaign.' For details about how you can join this campaign, check out below...

One of our staff in particular is really good about being relational. He loves people, and he loves to appreciate people. Whether his colleagues in the office, acquaintances from years back or friends who support the ministry, he is quick to take time out of his schedule to invest in people.

Doing what he does best, last week he visited some friends of Water Street Ministries to thank them for their generosity. When he stopped to visit one woman in Manheim, he found her pulling weeds in her garden. She was happy to take some time, though, to talk.

After sharing about her church and what was blooming in her garden, the woman asked how Water Street Ministries was doing. My colleague doesn’t normally like to ask people for things in these visits; his purpose is strictly to thank and encourage. Since she asked, though, he shared with her about the Revive Campaign, and the fact that Water Street Ministries has been operating in a deficit for the last three years. The woman said she remembered hearing a radio announcement about Revive and promised to send in a donation.

The very next morning as our team was opening our mail, we found a check for $500 from this woman with a kind note: “I was glad to have met you this morning. I feel you are involved in a wonderful ministry. It’s important that we help those in need who are among us, and minister to their spiritual needs as well, that they may hear God’s plan of salvation and come to know Jesus.”

While we are praying to raise $875,000 by May 31, it’s not the amount of this woman’s gift that is so special. It is her heart to help meet the practical and spiritual needs of individuals in poverty. Will you consider today what you could give? No gift is too small when God is in it!

Join the revive 2011 Spring Campaign...
This Spring, we’re inviting you to revive your partnership with Water Street Ministries. Through your prayers and your giving, you can revive lives and advance God’s Kingdom.

Will you join us?
- Send a special gift this Spring. Donate online.
- We welcome your wisdom and counsel. Email us at Contact@WaterStreetMinistries.org.
- Commit to pray for God’s wisdom, provision, and the organization as a whole. Sign up for our Prayer Calendar.

For more information, visit www.WaterStreetMinistries.org/Revive, email Contact@WaterStreetMinistries.org or call Keith at (717) 358-2010.