You reap what you sow.  God produced an incredible harvest for PromiseLand San Marcos for Christmas.  We decided in September to sow $3000 into the community for our Servolution.  Like many churches, we did not have $3000 ‘laying around’.  So, I made the decision to take $300o out of our building fund account and use it as our seed to the community.  If  you don’t know about our plan, we are trying to save $120,000 by March 5th, 2010 to pay off a balloon note.  When I made the $3000 decision, we had $50,000 in our savings account.

For two and a half months, we gave and worked in the community with no financial result.  In fact, finances at the church got real tight and we had to cut back in several ways.  And then it started happening.  In the last 6 weeks, we have received 3 checks totaling… Read the rest of this entry →

San Marcos Daily Record – December 18th, 2009
By Jeff Walker
Features Editor

Pastor Robin Steele calls it a Servolution.

The sermon at Promiseland Church started off like any other on a Sunday back in September, as Steele relayed the Parable of the Talents to his congregation. He preached on the importance of utilizing one’s individual gifts given by God. No one but Steele was aware of the twist that was coming.

“Everyone was sitting there looking at me, and I said ‘OK, I need 15 people who want to put this sermon into action right now, and I need those people to stand up and come up front.’” Steele said. “I said it just real cold and hard just to see who would do it.”

And what has happened over the next three months since has changed lives.

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