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Patrick Crossing is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your gift is tax deductible. If you would like to make a donation, please send your check or money order to:

Patrick Crossing

PO Box 3057,

Durango, CO 81302

 

You can also set up a monthly draft at your bank.  Please contact your bank for more info.

The Joy Of Stewardship

Stewardship is one of the great themes of Scripture. Our Creator God entrusted Adam and Eve with a brand new planet and placed within their hands the delightful responsibility to care for and nurture this great gift. Throughout Scripture, the Lord reminds His people that they are stewards of many things: Of the time that He has allotted to them to live out their lives on this earth; of the treasures He allows them to earn and give and to manage; of the temples (our bodies) He has given us to transport His image to the world; and, of His Word – the Word which heals, delivers and saves. Those who take the time to grasp both the reality and the responsibility of becoming faithful stewards of everything our Creator has entrusted to us become people whose lives are defined by joy, generosity and fruitfulness.

At Patrick Crossing, our mission is to help people discover the joy of stewardship – to become the good soil that Jesus talked about which He said would produce a great increase: some one hundred, some sixty, some thirty times what was sown. God has sown precious seed into your life and it is our passion to see you experience life in all of the abundance that our Creator has intended for you.

 

Your Gifts To Patrick Crossing

We have designed Patrick Crossing to be low on structure and a ministry-intensive church. We know that this model is growing the church successfully all around the planet and believe that we are in the vanguard of doing something very special in La Plata County and beyond. That being said, we are not a "pass the plate every Sunday" type of ministry. We rely on the Lord and the integrity of our participants to continue to give back to the Lord that which belongs to Him. We are deeply grateful for your prayers and continued support of this ministry that keeps us in the field planning, praying and accomplishing the ministry to which we feel called. Thank you for your kindness and support as we labor to keep it simple and Spirit-empowered.

What Others Have To Say About Giving

“I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.” — John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937), American industrialist and philanthropist

There's no good reason to be the richest man in the cemetery.  -Col. Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

"I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling.  I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't."  Sir John Templeton, chairman of Templeton Funds

“Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles.” — Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87), American abolitionist and clergyman

“Examples are few of men ruined by giving.” — Christian Bovée

“One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church’s economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are ‘payment.’ ” — Doug Pagitt, pastor

“I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God’s failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.” — William Carey (1761-1834), Baptist missionary to India

“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.” — Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), missionary to India

“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British wartime prime minister and statesman

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank (1929-45), Jewish Dutch diarist during Nazi occupation

“The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.” — James L. Kraft (1874-1953), Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp. chairman

“I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God’s people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.” — Stephen Olford, preacher and author

“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.” — Robert South (1634-1716), English clergyman

“Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92), English Baptist preacher

“When I die, if I leave behind me ten pounds ... you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.” — John Wesley (1703-91), English evangelist and founder of Methodism

“Earn as much as you can. Save as much as you can. Invest as much as you can. Give as much as you can.” — John Wesley (1703-91), English evangelist and founder of Methodism

Some Straight Talk On Giving

By C. J. Alderton

 

Very few people find the Biblical concept of stewardship, or giving, something that is easily discussed. One of the reasons given by many for being “turned off” by religion is the excuse: “All they ever talk about is money.” Money is funny that way. The word money begins with the letter “m” and ends with the letter “y”, which spells: “My”, which reflects many people’s attitude toward money. It is mine!

From the time I was a small child, my parents instilled within me the concept of the tithe, the giving of 10% of my income to the Lord – no strings attached. For years, out of simple obedience to my parents’ example, I followed this practice. I am thankful that they taught me the habit of giving, but it was many years later, when serving as a Pastor in a traditional church, that I really began to examine this practice. “Was it Biblical?” “Was giving 10% something I could teach about with an honest conviction or was it something I was urging on fellow believers that was merely self-serving?” Good questions.

Let me say first of all that I believe in tithing - but in a very qualified way. And, the qualification has to do with one simple word: attitude. I believe that our Father asks us to give for one very simple reason – to teach us the attitude of generosity. As long as we carry around within us a “my money” attitude, we limit the ability of God to reflect through us His heart of generosity. And, He is a very generous God... (Read the whole article)...

Other Quotables

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

 

When we give to God, we are just taking our hands off what already belongs to Him.

 

Give to God what's right--not what's left.

 

You should give according to your income, lest God make your income according to your giving.

 

Two things ruin a church--loose living and tight giving.

 

There are many who will give the Lord the credit but never give Him the cash.

 

When it comes to giving until it hurts, most people have a very low threshold of pain.

 

The Dead Sea is the dead sea because it continually receives and never gives.