KEEP WHAT YOU GIVE AWAY
There is a story about a Methodist layman who gave $100,000 to build a college in Liberia in the early 1920’s. By the 1940’s the college had grown and was meeting the educational and spiritual needs of many young Africans, and on a special anniversary of the college’s founding, the administration decided it was time to make a formal Thank You to its benefactor. It took months for our General Board of Missions to track down that Methodist layman. He had lost everything in the crash of 1929 and was living in a little house on the south side of Chicago. Twice he refused to see representatives from our Board of Missions, but he finally agreed to receive them. At their insistence, he was flown to Africa for a gala celebration of the college’s anniversary. As he looked over the campus filled with hundreds of students with smiles on their faces and tomorrow in their eyes, he whispered to…
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