Quiet Time #14 - Letter to the Church in Torrance

"Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles... for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more than once when I was in need." Philippians 4:14,16

Paul wrote a letter of encouragement and thanks to the Philippian church.

And in this particular verse he specifically thanked them for sending him aid when he was ministering in Thessalonica.

Remember all these young churches which Paul planted were all struggling and this includes the Philippian church, but it didn't stop them from sending Paul help.

For several years now, our church in Torrance helps support dozens of missionaries, ministries and churches in the U.S. and all over the world. And many of their leaders send back to us letters, updates, newsletters, postcards and online messages much like Paul did to the churches that he started.

Today, as we continue to help support these ministries which are in need of financial aid, let us be reminded that their leaders, like Paul did, are also writing us letters of thanksgiving and encouragement, and thus continuing the example and the unselfish efforts the first missionaries and the first churches did 2,000 years ago. Except now instead of just Paul and instead of just about 20 churches that he started, we as one church are helping to support more than 20 Pauls and more than 20 churches at the same time, thereby obeying the command of Jesus to spread the gospel to all the earth and doing even greater things than He did.

And to this, on behalf of all these ministries we help support, I write this letter, to say thank you, to you my brother and to you my sister in Christ in the Church that meets in Torrance -- your financial support is helping to make an impact to so many people at so many places and so, like Paul wrote: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."


Note: This letter was written for a church that meets in the City of Torrance in Southern California. U.S.A.