Creative Generosity
Creative, inspiring, fascinating were words that tumbled into my mind as I met up with four special friends in Thailand. Their vision to bring hope and healing to as many as possible had been sustained through three decades by two of them and four decades by another!! What tremendous commitment and faithfulness. Each was serving generously in different fields:- community care, education by radio, enrichment of living conditions through health care.
The fourth person of generosity was one whose mode of service has inspired me to share with others, who in turn may be launched into creative service. Currently on training and mentoring assignments in Thailand, this "fourth wise-man" has crafted a plan to generate funding using his professional background in Financial Consultancy. He spends a percentage of his year in financial advisory work in Europe and the funds generated through that business enables him to serve the peoples of Thailand.
This principle of wise stewardship of time, experience and gifting etc is one that has always been a rich blessing to me. Having been involved in such overseas projects myself, I firmly believe there is much mileage in such channels of generosity. Throughout this site, I would like to share various examples with you, which I trust will encourage and inspire you in considering such a direction in your life. We traditionally think of generosity in terms of finance but there are so many other areas generosity also…
......read some of the other pages too.
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