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What does $700,000 buy?

It depends on who you are.

If you’re a college, it will build 1/3 of a new chapel.

If you’re a church, it will buy ½  of a large, state-of-the-arc organ.

If you’re a radio station, it will buy the construction permits for 2 new stations.

If you’re a businessman, it will hire an average of 14 new employees.

$700,000 will expand the borders and increase revenue, just like Jabez prayed.

What is $700,000 worth?

It depends on who you are.

If you’re a child with no sneakers, it will buy 35,000 pairs.

If you’re a child who will only get breakfast at school, it will buy 560,000 breakfasts.

If you’re a child who needs tutoring, snacks, and a safe environment after school, it will pay for 16 fully funded after school programs.

If you’re a poor child in a foreign country, it will pay for you and 1,821 of your peers to be sponsored through Compassion International for a year.

If you’re a poverty-stricken child in rural Appalachia, inner city America, or living on an American Indian reservation, it will pay for you and 2,082 children like you to be sponsored for a year through Save the Children, Inc.

If you’re a parent who doesn’t know how you will buy presents, Christmas dinner, and the heat bill, it will help your family and 9,332 others.

If you’re a child without adult role models, a safe place to hang out, and a place to learn life skills, it will pay for 5 fully funded and staffed youth centers.

If you’re a child who can’t afford school supplies, it will pay for 14,000 backpacks, notebooks, packs of pencils, rulers, calculators, and other essentials.

$700,000 will feed the hungry, comfort the sick, and help the poor, just like Jesus commanded.