What is a benevolence fund?
“Benevolence” refers to a feeling of kindness or goodwill, or an act of kindness or charity. Our benevolence funds are used to help people in the community struggling through financially-difficult times.
Like the weather we all go through different seasons. There are springtime harvests, summer droughts, autumn wanings, and winter freezes. They have “a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh” (Eccl. 3:3–4). Sometimes God calls us to be part of a situation when it’s passing through a season of extraordinary difficulty, decline, or an extremely negative environment.
In such an atmosphere, unhappiness and even distrust can tend to spread exponentially; they gain the force of momentum. As C. S. Lewis observed in The Horse and His Boy, “When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.” It might seem like a simple statement, but I think it’s both true and profound. All other factors being equal, betterment tends to beget betterment; decline tends to produce decline.
Our benevolence fund is here to set things in the right direction and to love, nurture and care for you as you are going through your winter season. As we all give, share and bless no one will be left alone and hurting in their circumstances.