{"id":207,"date":"2009-04-15T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/04\/ideas-needed-what-could-you-do-with-20kmonth.html"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T09:42:00","slug":"ideas-needed-what-could-you-do-with-20kmonth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/04\/ideas-needed-what-could-you-do-with-20kmonth.html","title":{"rendered":"Ideas Needed: What Could You Do with $20K\/Month?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine posed me<\/span> a theoretical question about his church, and I think it’s a great one to put some creativity to. This modest-sized church has been making a regular debt payment around $20,000 every month for a few years. It intends to pay off this building debt soon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Which means the church will soon be in the position of having an extra $20K in its budget…unattached to anything. Certainly it could spend the money on itself. New lighting, new audio\/visual, new whatever. But this church doesn’t want to head this direction — which is highly commendable, in my opinion. It wants to use the money to do good in its community, to help people, and to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n

So, even though the question is theoretical at this point, there’s a chance it really could happen. What this minister is asking for is ideas.<\/p>\n

If your church had that much money to spend on others every month, how would you spend it?<\/span><\/p>\n

I have my own ideas, but I thought I’d open it up to you guys. What would you do?<\/p>\n

Comment away…<\/p>\n

———<\/p>\n

(Note: <\/span>When I say above that it’s “a friend of mine,” that’s not a sneaky way of referring to myself. It’s not me. Please don’t come asking me for $20,000 next month.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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