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Dave and Janet Gibson describe finding community at Journey Church, deciding to commit to tithing and the MORE campaign, and how they understand that experience to have shaped their approach to giving.
The conversation,
in their words.
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[Music] [Music] [Music] I'm Dave Gibson I'm jamet Gibson so we came to Journey we fell in love with the church we fell in love with the message the worship everything it just seemed like a perfect fit we got connected in a small group where we could totally see
God's hand we were getting excited and finding ways we could you know kind of start to participate and one of the ways we knew we needed to do it was financially we decided that we were going to change our whole perspective on how we were going to handle the Tiding and it just so happened to coincide with a more campaign we had not been um committed givers we decided to trust God and to make a commitment to not only tithe but then we both came up with a number that we were going to use for our more campaign addition the big fear was of course just the bottom line we were going to truly trust God we weren't going to put God to the
test for a month or two and if things didn't work out back out we were going to go all in but we were worried about how we were going to make make ends meet it was very stressful the numbers were clearly not balancing correctly and God was going to have to come through I grew up in the church all my life and so I trusted that and so I just kind of felt I had to let him do what he needed to do to understand and how God works God blew our socks off with everything that was going to happen after that October we made the commitment um and we we followed through come the 1 of January I got an email through Linkedin it was a recruiter telling me about a local job here in Ben went through the interviews um they went incredible ended
up getting a new job we were in a deficit after we started tithing with my past salary my new salary was going to cover the tithe cover the more campaign and leave I think about $100 extra a month I'm far less stressed I'm in a wonderful company I have amazing people that I'm working with I enjoy going to work we just found out last night that unexpectedly our company's going to give us a pretty sign able bonus money is no longer a stressor for us we recognize that God's going to meet the need and then we here we have grandchildren coming traveling down to Southern California was going to happen a lot more often so now we were going to be down in that area to visit our
grandkids all we had to do was trust God with our tithe and then he blessed us beyond all belief it shifted our mindset now we are almost looking for ways that we can give we can really apply our money here here and here and we still have extra money so we're able to bless people at church that need something it's like so cool to be able to you know have some extra money to be able to bless people now all I can do is think about gosh what if I had done this so much sooner and so much earlier I mean how much would life have been different trust it from somebody who's constantly put God in a box and often times had Vine your on for what God was
capable of he is capable of so much more than you can even begin to imagine so much more
