Thread by @ThabitiAnyabwil

Brothers and sisters, I want to make an ask of you.

It's not for me. It's for the gospel. It's for churches. It's for often-neglected, overlooked and avoided communities of people made in God's image.

I want to ask you to help us impact time and eternity.

Bear with me....

We have seen a revival of church planting over the last three decades. There are untold numbers of new churches in communities all across the country. Praise God!

We've seen an effort to support and revitalize struggling churches. And there are many comeback stories. Praise God!

But the vast majority of these new churches and these comeback stories exist and minister in suburban areas and in gentrified parts of cities. At best, the lion's share are only hood adjacent rather than hood located.

This matters immensely because the people *in* the 'hood are often without cars and without money for public transportation. And if they had those things, they'd be more pressed to use them to get to a job rather than a church service disconnected from their lived realities.

So that means many communities are not just food deserts and opportunity deserts, but sometimes are gospel and church deserts. There are faithful churches there, but not enough to make the gospel plentiful enough to impact every corner.

We need investments in strengthening existing churches serving neglected Black and Brown neighborhoods. And we need investments in starting new churches that add to the gospel ecology of neglected people and places.

Here's what I want to ask you to do:

Help us make a contribution to the gospel ecology of neglected Brown and Black communities. Help us strengthen existing churches and start new ones.

Help us by supporting the work of @cretecollective.

thecretecollective.org

I want to appeal to my Twitter followers particularly. If I believe this ap, there are 67,000 of you. Let's subtract 7,000 as bots 😂. That leaves 60,000.

If each of you would contribute $10, that would be almost one-third of our goal of raising $2m for planting churches.

If each of the 60,000 of you were to contribute $10/month for the next three months, that would get us to $1.8 million of our $2 million goal!

Or, if each contributed one time for $100, that would help us raise $6 million dollars to plant churches in the neediest areas!

So I want to ask you to invest in the gospel, invest in churches, invest in neglected and challenged Black and Brown neighborhoods by investing in @cretecollective. Would you do that?

You can learn more at thecretecollective.org.

You can also learn more at christianitytoday.com/news/2020/nove…

Or watch this video introducing the work:
vimeo.com/480516543/3202…

So, that's my ask. I'm praying 60,000 of you would contribute $10, $100 or more to help us spread the gospel to image bearers in neglected and vulnerable neighborhoods across the country. Ask the Lord if he would have you help.