TITHES AND OFFERINGS
WHAT IS TITHING?
The word tithe literally means “tenth”. The tithe was an required offering from the law of Moses requiring 10 percent of an Israelite’s first fruits. Because God provided the harvest, this first part was return to Him. It was a reminder that all things we have are the Lord’s. These tithes also took care of others and were distributed to the needy and to the Levitical priesthood.
WHAT ARE OFFERINGS?
Offerings are gifts outside of, or in addition to tithe. This can include giving a cash offering to your church above and beyond your normal tithe, giving money to a charity you support, giving to a friend in need, or giving your time and skills by volunteering.
Crossover Church of God does not require tithes or offerings. This is a subject that is between each congregate and the Lord. We urge each member and attendee to pray on what the Lord is asking of them personally.
Below is a summary of what organizations and ministries we support as a church. You can designate funds to specific ministries you believe in, make recurring tithing donations, or specify something special.
Church of God World Missions
- City of Refuge-Atlanta (WWAM-Women’s Ministries): City of Refuge is a faith-based environment that helps individuals and families transition out of crisis.
- FACES-Ecuador (Ninos con Destino): The Fighting Against Child Employment Services Ministry, FACES, (known in Ecuador as Niños con Destino en las Manos de Dios). Their goal is the progressive eradication of child labor. Hope is offered to the children and their families through a personal relationship with Christ and the opportunity to participate in programs that target basic needs such as nutrition, health, and education.
- Pilgrims Home (Orphanage in Ukraine): This unique ministry is devoted to rescuing the lost children of the Ukraine who live unloved and unprotected in city manholes, basements, and rank underground sewer tunnels. It is considered the largest alcohol and drug addiction rehabilitation center in the country and is continually rescuing the youth of the Ukraine from futures of addiction. To date, more than 2,700 adolescents have passed through its programs. Please help Pilgrim Home continue its important work.
- Smoky Mountain Children’s Home (Mother’s Day Offering): Smoky Mountain Children’s Home is a private, faith based, non-profit, multi-service agency that provides care, love, and healing to children and youth who have no one else to advocate for or care for them. This mission is mandated by the Word of God in James 1:27 (NLT), “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.” A continuum of quality programs is offered to meet the unique needs of children of different ages, capacities, races and creeds, as well as their families.
Other Missions/Ministries
- Middle Eastern Medical Workers: Please join us in praying and supporting a family in the Middle East doing medical work among refugees and the poor. Their desire is not only to see physical healing come to the lives and families of people affected by war and poverty, but also to see spiritual wholeness come as they learn to follow King Jesus the Great Physician together.
- Fresno Rescue Mission: The FresnoRescue Mission endeavors to glorify God by meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the least, the last and the lost in our community.
- Breaking the Chains: Breaking the Chains of Fresno work with local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies to provide rescue, relocation, restorative, and residential services to victims of human trafficking.
- Pregnancy Care Center: Pregnancy Care Center offers compassionate help to women and men through free pregnancy medical and support services; educates our community on healthy relationships and sexual integrity; and provides resources for healing to those who have experienced reproductive loss.
- ESA Love, INC: Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA)/Love INCof Fresno serves the community by connecting caring Christian churches, ministries, and individuals, to their neighbors in need.
- New Creation Ministries: Caring for individuals and marriages impacted by relational brokenness. They provide counseling, relational skills training, and healing for relational issues, trauma, and sexual brokenness.
- Teen Challenge: Their mission is to provide teens & adults freedom from addiction and other life-controlling issues through Christ-centered solutions. They strive to accomplish that mission by empowering, educating, and equipping.
“Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.”
Proverbs 3: 9-10