Chicago Church Gives Members $500 Each,


There’s no shame in giving credit where it’s due and a church in Chicago has done something really neatafter it came into a lot of money: The pastor gave 10% of it ($160,000) to members of the congregation — $500 each — and told them to pay it forward to those less fortunate:
It was an unorthodox gesture, but [Pastor Laura] Truax notes, LaSalle is “a gutsy little church” with a history of making waves around socially progressive causes it embraces. In 1972, when it stood in the shadow of the now-demolished Cabrini Green housing project, the church established a criminal defense legal aid clinic for the poor.
Decades later, LaSalle remains an activist church, doing everything from feeding homeless families on Wednesday nights to buying an ambulance for a medical clinic in Niger. The non-denominational congregation is racially and economically diverse: More than 60 percent of members have advanced degrees; about a third live paycheck-to-paycheck.


In some cases, the money helped church members pay their own bills, but in most cases, it went to someone else. That’s just fantastic. LaSalle isn’t the first churchto do something like this, but it’s always nice to see churches use their power for good, especially when we’re so used to hearing the other side of the story. It also a reminder that all of us can do this. Even if you don’t have the money, volunteering or creating something for someone else is always an option.


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good news.d church should feed its members d way christ feed his deciples and d crowd not d oda way round,if only churches can b providing free or heavily subsidised education,hospital and yes jobs blv me we will have few sinners in dis world.dis basic need drive people into doin shits or sellin der souls.and i do blv d church can

This is a CHURCH.

which work nigerian pastors dey do before they can raise such amount of money?