Sowing Seeds in Your Time of Need

My parents started the church in 19 59 in an abandoned feed store. Was very run down, had holes in the floor, really needed repair. They were saving up money to make these renovationsand one day a young couple came through visiting. And my father called them up on the platform and had them shear a few words,. like he did so often at the end of the service. Daddy said, i think we should take an offering for this young missionary couple. In the natural lakewood needed the money more than they did. But my father understood this principle of sowing a seed in your time of need. An that little congregation took up an offering of 600 dollars, that was huge