12 noon
I have said nothing about Share-a-thon on my blog this week. Now it’s time! To every person who has tuned into Rise & Shine over the last week for Share a thon: THANK-YOU!! At the beginning of this week as Share a thon loomed like a giant mountain needing to be conquered, my heart was in my boots. On Monday morning at 6-50am, I sat in the CCFm studio & quietly said to the Lord, “In reality I am sitting behind the mic but in my mind I am curled up in a corner in the foetal position!” I didn’t know how I was going to get through it.
Asking for money! Never an easy thing to do. I know how hard life is…that times are tough & now we have to ask you to give.
And so Share a thon began. Wonderful Avril Thomas joined me on Monday morning & I marvelled at the R227 292 that was pledged. It was a great start! I was really happy. The next time Rise & Shine would be involved was Wednesday. This time Chairman of the CCFm Board of Management, Clinton Werner was joining me as co-presenter. Rise & Shiners again responded in a phenomenal way – in just two hours a massive R377 410 was pledged AND we crossed the R1million mark for the week! Whoooo hoooo! Just one more 2 hour stint left for Rise & Shine & that was this morning. Again, Clinton left the warmth of his home, wife & 4 young sons, braved the cold, wet weather & sacrificially joined me in the studio at 7am. To cross R2 million for the week, we needed R456 000. I didn’t think for a moment that we would get NEAR it before 9am. But, the listeners of Rise& Shine are generous thro’ and thro! The calls & smsses poured in. By 9am, we had R419 000 pledged & by 9-14am, the total had swelled to a whopping R492 000! Despite our brokenness God is faithful! Thank you for being so incredibly kind towards the ministry of CCFm. Altogether in R&S hours this week a massive R1 023 702 was pledged. It is humbling to see that figure & imagine it has been pledged during my watch of the day. Thank-you so much. Thank-you just doesn’t seem enough! So, all I can do is to pray abundance over you! My prayer for you is that God will bless you abundantly – far more than you could ask or imagine. I pray that the measure with which you have given will be given back to you, over and over again.
Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
If you haven’t been tuned in, go along to www.ccfm.org.za to find out how you can give to CCFm.
It has been really cold today and to prove our point, here are a couple of photos of surrounding snow covered mountains. I took these photos off http://news.howzit.msn.com/
Snow on Table Mountain
Table Mountain Webcam
Table Mountain Sign
More Table Mountain Snow
Snow on Table Mountain? A rare event indeed!
Stellenbosch Mountains
Brrrr! Mike took the day off to help at Share-a-thon. I so appreciate him! So now he’s home and we’re enjoying a long weekend!
God bless you richly!
In His Warm, Firm, Grip,
Helga xx 🙂