Most of the time, when we use the word “contagious,” it has a negative connotation. However, some things are positive that can also become contagious! Two of those things are generosity and making a difference.
Pastor Jeremy shares how God wants to work miracles through YOU in 2026!
Notes 📓✏️:
GENEROSITY and MAKING A DIFFERENCE!
“Then Moses said to the whole community of Israel, “This is what the Lord has commanded: Take a sacred offering for the Lord…”
Exodus 35:4-5a (NLT)
The offering would be considered “sacred”
Sacred = Holy (Set apart)
Worship becomes tangible when we release what God has entrusted to us.
Worship must come from the heart.
“Let those with generous hearts present the following gifts to the Lord…”
Exodus 35:5b (NLT)
“You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”
2 Corinthians 9:7 (NLT)
If your heart isn’t in it, your giving becomes a payment instead of praise.
“So the whole community of Israel left Moses and returned to their tents. All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved came and brought their sacred offerings to the Lord.”
Exodus 35:20-21a (NLT)
God’s goal is never equal offerings but equal sacrifice.
Why do we get excited about the Legacy End-of-Year Miracle Offering?
Answer: Because we get to give to God and be a part of something that is bigger than us!
2025 God Behind Bars:
885,760 views across 677 prisons
1,206 documented salvations
2025 City First Backpack Drive:
2700 backpacks given away across 18 schools in three states.
2025 Food Distribution:
108,379 pounds of food
Equivalent of 90,317 meals given away
Since 2020:
3.6 million pounds of food equaling 3,674,568 meals!
2025 Empowerment Center Efforts:
30 salvations
3,267 people impacted (including block parties)
2025 City First Family Ministries:
31,508 kids check-ins (cumulative)
431 salvations in kid’s ministry
293 youth and young adults baptized
Our hearts become excited and full of worship to God when we see the impact of our contagious generosity!
Look what God has done FOR us! And look what God can do THROUGH us!
All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved gave… (And God built a place for all to find hope and relationship in Him.)
“They went to Moses and reported, “The people have given more than enough materials to complete the job the Lord has commanded us to do!”
So Moses gave the command, and this message was sent throughout the camp: “Men and women, don’t prepare any more gifts for the sanctuary. We have enough!” So the people stopped bringing their sacred offerings. Their contributions were more than enough to complete the whole project.”
Exodus 36:5-7 (NLT)
When generosity becomes contagious, the vision becomes a reality and lives are changed.
Vision for the 2025 Legacy End of Year Miracle Offering?
December 7th and 14th
Our 2026 Vision:
20% increase in our compassion efforts
20% increase in our local, national, and world mission’s efforts
20% increase in our food distribution
Establish a God Behind Bars location in Wisconsin
Start a new Young Adult service at Spring Creek in January
Open a physical Empowerment Center
Fund much-needed facility improvements:
Spring Creek:
New Air Conditioning
Foyer Carpet
Bathrooms
Cape Coral:
Complete exterior upgrade of our Cape Coral church
Janesville:
Create a Champions Club at our Janesville church
Total Goal for the Vision of All Locations: $2,300,000
“The house I am building has to be the best, for our God is the best…”
2 Chronicles 2:5 (Msg)Pray
Plan
Commit
Give
Discussion Questions 📝❓:
- What do you think it means to make our giving sacred? How is this different from our regular financial transactions?
- Pastor Jeremy says that generosity should come from the heart and not from guilt or pressure. Why is this so important?
- What can we learn from the story of Gracie in Champions Club and her attitude towards giving?
- How does the concept of contagious generosity work in a church community, and why do you think generosity has a tendency to spread from person to person?