What if...

...there was a group of people, let’s say 100,000 Christians, who were committed to praying, worshiping and studying God’s  word  more; Serving  God  at  least  a  couple  hours  a  week in  their  local  church or community; loving others;  living a  moral  Christian  Lifestyle and  giving  $10  a  month  to support  missions.  How would this  change our world?  We would see a totally  different body  of Christ first of all. More Christians would have a stronger and more exciting relationship with Jesus Christ, more evangelism would happen at home and abroad and if done right over 20,000+ fulltime Christian ministers and missionaries would be supported that are not presently fully supported as well as providing much needed education, skilled training, jobs and a better life for the poor in developing and 3rd world countries.

Hopeline Christian Society will be “Encouraging, Equipping and Mobilizing Christians in the Pursuit of Living the Two ‘Great Commandments’ and the ‘Great Commission,’ Locally and Globally” in 3 ways. The first is through helping to develop “Christian Spiritual and Moral Disciplines” in the Christians life, allowing them to have a vibrant and abundant life in Christ. Second is to help support Christian ministers and missionaries financially where they are mostly dependent upon raising their own support, without having to leave their present church or organization. Finally, to provide education, skilled training and jobs for those living in poverty in mostly developing and 3rd world countries thus improving theirs and their family’s standard of living.

The first and most important aspect of a Christian’s life is to have a vibrant and abundant relationship with Jesus Christ. We will be “Encouraging, Equipping and Mobilizing Christians in the Pursuit of Living the Two ‘Great Commandments’ and the ‘Great Commission,’ Locally and Globally” by helping Christians in their spiritual growth through helping to develop “Christian Spiritual and Moral Disciplines” in their lives.

This can only happen if we as Christians spend time with God. Scripture calls Christ the Bride Groom and us the Bride. To think that we can have an abundant life in Christ without spending a significant amount of enjoyable and intimate time with Jesus is like having a dynamic and gratifying marriage without spending a significant amount of joyful and intimate time with your husband or wife. Christ spent a lot of time with the Father and so must we. If we think this is not true we are only fooling ourselves as Christians.

How much time does the average Christian spend with Christ?

I would say that if you spend more than 20 minutes a day with just you and Christ and go to church once a week you are well above average. Also, probably most people just ask God to do things for them and not focused on relationship time with Jesus Christ. How would this work in a human marriage? “Yes dear, you can have between 6:15 and 6:35 each morning and if you promise to make me dinner I’ll say thank you for it, if I remember! :)” We believe that it is best if Christians spend a minimum average of 9 plus hours per week with God, praying, worship and studying God’s word. This is only about 5% of your week which has 168 hours, most people sleep 56 hours and work 40 hours. If we think that to spend an average of 9 plus hours a week with the God who died for you is too much, we might need to honestly look at how much we think we love God. We also believe it is better if we spend at least one day a month praying and fasting for spiritual strength. We will discuss this later if you become more interested; because, we know you want to say you can’t. As well every Christian should spend at least a couple hours a week of ministry time using their spiritual gifts and talents for the Glory of God. We think Christians should do local and/or global short term missions trips. This all helps to create a healthy Christian lifestyle of loving God and one another. This may seem like a lot. However, if we want God to change us and our world we the Body of Christ need to be totally committed to Him. The more time you spend with Jesus, the more every area of your life will change and the more we will touch others for His Kingdom. If you are not there now we would like to help you get there within 6 months, if you want. You will never be the same and you will never want to go back to the way life used to be.

One thing to be sure is that our time with God and our spiritual and moral disciplines should never become legalistic. I personally do not keep track of the time I spend with God because I know that I spend 4+ hours per day on average with Christ and the spiritual disciplines.  If our time with God only becomes a set of rules and routine it will never become relationship with Christ and will never be enjoyable. When you first start increasing your time with Christ Jesus you will probably keep track of how much time you are spending with Him or at the very least you will be aware of time, but that will change and you will just spend glorious time with Him. We will all probably dip below the minimal spiritual discipline times occasionally due to circumstances. This is not what we are interested in; we are talking about our normal lifestyle. Even if you do not reach the recommended 9 plus hours average per week of spiritual disciplines  whatever you do increase will improve your life in Christ.

When time with your spouse becomes wearisome the marriage is in trouble. The same is true with our relationship with Christ! We should always be on a honeymoon with Jesus.

Each person has a different personality and needs to spend their time with God differently. This is why many prayer and study programs do not work. They try to fit everyone into the same style of program. What works for some definitely does not work for others! When I was a young Christian I used to pray 7 hours a day plus the Word and Worship, that was obviously before marriage and kids. After attending a prayer seminar to teach us how to pray 1 hour a day, I dropped to 5 minutes until I finally put away everything they taught me. It worked for others but not me. For me it took relationship out, once I got it back I was spending large amounts of time again with God.

As being part of Hopeline Christian Society one of our goals is to help you set up a support system as well as provide a variety of ideas to find what works for best for you. We will use your personality and style, your friends, your church, other resources and last but not least your love for God to help you have the best possible relationship with Jesus Christ that you can have. As a body and family we will work together and help each other draw closer to Jesus Christ and reach the world for Jesus through having dynamic and loving relationships with Him.

The second way Hopeline Christian Society will be “Encouraging, Equipping and Mobilizing Christians in the Pursuit of Living the Two ‘Great Commandments’ and the ‘Great Commission,’ Locally and Globally” is to help support Christian ministers and missionaries financially where they are mostly dependent upon raising their own support, without having to leave their present church or organization.

Why is financial support so important?

I have seen more loving and compassionate Christians leave the mission field or ministry not because they did not like it or could not handle it but because they could not afford it.

Because of the cost of missions these days the average foreign missionary (or first world missionary) will need around $2,000 USD of support per month. National missionaries living in thier own 3rd world country need far less, however they could always use extra support to help them with being able to serve, evangelize and minister in foreign nations (and God knows we need them) like missionaries from 1st world countries typically only get to do. They can also always use extra money to further help the impoverished with food, housing or medical, etc. in their own country. From my knowledge, the average foreign missionary only raises between $400 and $600 per month and most are closer to the lower amount. National missionaries in 3rd world countries if they have any support are usually under $50/month. Every year gets harder and harder as more and more mission organizations only take people who will raise their own support adding more people out there trying to raise their personal support while at the same time the world economy gets worse and expenses get higher. Usually what happens is a young person will get a lot of support from their family or church in the beginning but then that drops off. Or someone more mature in age uses their life savings, hoping to raise more support and then has to quit after a couple years of service. I have known far too many friends while in missions who have sold their homes and businesses, rooted up their families to go into missions only to last a couple years and ended up in debt and had to go back home for everyone to see that they couldn’t make it, and it was all because of finances (this leaves a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth for missions). Our family sat around $500/month (which was much less than our monthly average). Unfortunately, we would eventually run out of money and will have to go into debt with our credit card to stay where we were at and then have to leave the mission field for a couple of years to pay off the debt and to get a little ahead and then we can start all over again. This has been our families’ life for the last 25 years. Most cannot and will not do this! That’s why the Body of Christ needs an organization to help raise support for ministers and missionaries that are dependent mostly upon raising their own support.

Last but not least we are to show our love for Christ and our neighbor which is the second of the "Two Great Commandments" by helping those in prison and feeding the hungry, etc. This leads to the need for training and jobs for those who need them, especially those in developing and 3rd world countries. However they cannot do it on their own because of poverty, lack of education and practical skills as well as many times they have to deal with corrupt governments and government officials. Every day I get asked by many desperate people to give them a job so that they can feed their family, and I have to say “No, I can’t help you.” I can't even tell them to look for one because there are none. Each year billions of dollars have been given to stop poverty and hunger in almost every 3rd world country around the world and it has not even made a dent. Yet, if we as the body of Christ band together we can say “Yes, I have a job for you. Come with me!” Then God truly gets Glorified.

How can we do this?

If WE the Body of Christ works together to raise the money, mostly through our own spiritual growth with God, excitement for missions and only a $10 per month per person or $20 per family donation where half will go directly to supporting ministers and missionaries who need it and half going to starting “Missional Villages” that will start national and global businesses mostly in developing and 3rd world countries with the profits also going to supporting the ministers and missionaries who need it the most, administering Hopeline ChristianSociety and to continue“Encouraging, Equipping and Mobilizing Christians in the Pursuit of Living the Two ‘Great Commandments’ and the ‘Great Commission,’ Locally and Globally.” These “Missional Villages” will provide jobs for the poor in 3rd world countries living in or near them, help them have a better standard of living by having sewage systems, clean water and electricity (which we will provide) and toilets to start with, which most people in 3rd world countries do not have the luxury of.

We also believe that this project is not only for Christians in first world countries but for Christians in 3rd world countries to help them know God better and to be part of giving into the Kingdom of God. Giving Christians tend to be recieving Christians. So for those living in poverty in developing and 3rd world countries the recommended donation will be close to the equivalent pecentage of the USD in their own currency. For example: in Haiti it will be about 3-5 Haitian Dollars which is about 35-60 cents USD for a country whose average income is under $1000 USD per year and most under $150 per year (will take between April and August 2014 to impliment). Those Haitians earning over $300 - $500 per month USD will be requested to contribute $5 per month and over $500 per month $10 per month like the rest of us.

You will be helping to bring much needed jobs for the poor and infrastructure into countries that need it the most as a gift from God. Ministers and missionaries around the world will be blessed to focus on God, reaching and helping the lost for Christ and not having to focus on trying to raise or keep their own support. Just think, in one year your $10/month will be supporting over 10 missionaries and providing training and jobs for over a 100 Haitians that would otherwise not have work, 2, 3 and 4 years it becomes miraculous through Christ' body and grace, but we all need to be part of the solution.

Hopeline Christian Society will never ask for any more money from our members. We will not ask for special donations for projects or for more help.

We will do what God has called us to do and gives us. This simple system with the grace of God and the support of the Body of Christ will be enough to start (except my initial investment for incorporation) and more than enough to become self-sustaining once we are able to hit the business phase and no one will ever have to be asked for any more than the recommended $10 per month per person or $20 per family donation. If someone wants to give more or offer various items we will not turn them away. However, we will never ask for or encourage anyone to give more than $10/month per person or $20 per family. We may have a webpage that will give some items that we can use in the beginning stages for those who would like to do more for this project but no one will be bombarded for any more financial requests and this webpage will not be overly promoted and only be positioned in a way that you can only get there if you want to see how to help more. We will also provide ways that you can help by volunteering with Hopeline Christian Society to help the poor or volunteer for one of our partnering ministries. One last time, “You will NEVER be asked or expected to give more than $10 per month per adult.”

By us not asking for more money from our members this will give our members the freedom to join with us and give to others more if they want to. It will also allow ministers and missionaries to only have to ask their friend and supporters for their ministry projects and not for their own needs (something we all hate to do, but must at this time). We know that Christians are being solicited to death for support from every direction. We want to slow that down and help Christians to have enough money for what God puts on their hearts.

Our limit of monthly support will be $2,000 per minister or missionary and our ultimate goal will be to see that every Hopeline Christian Society supported minister or missionary will have at least $2,000 per month of support. This is our long term goal.

Most ministers and missionaries supported by Hopeline Christian Society will be from other reputable Christian churches and Christian organizations such as Youth With A Mission, Campus Crusade for Christ, Baptist and Assembly of God churches, etc.

Hopeline Christian Society will be there mostly to support, encourage, equip and mobilize the existing Body of Christ and to help them do their ministries better, not to duplicate their efforts. However, we will be there to help fill in the gaps when needed. The main and non-negotiable requirements for anyone supported through Hopeline Christian Society will be that they are a Christian and are meeting the Christian Spiritual and Moral Disciplines and part of a US or Canadian government recognized Christian church or charity organization.

Hopeline Christian Society Memberships and Projected Goals:

Hopeline Christian Society has a recommended $10 per month per adult donation or $20 per family for membership which should be managable for most people in the first world. This money goes to supporting ministers and missionaries and developing and starting businesses to educate, train and provide jobs for the poor especially those who are Christians in 3rd world countries. One does not need to be a member to visit our site and be encouraged to spend more time with Christ and live a Christian moral life. Everyone is free to visit without being a member, grow and come closer to Christ. The reason we want members that will pay $10 per month is so that we the body of Christ can use our finances wisely and invest into the lives of ministers and missionaries and the poor, especially those who are Christians in 3rd world countries. Each individual member is important for this system to work and help the Kingdom of God grow. I believe this is being the wise servant.

As most of our members will come from Christian churches we will work closely with church Pastors, Christian organizations and their leaders to help their members and congregations to have a closer relationship with Christ Jesus. We will welcome non-Christians as well who believe in what we are doing in the world. Without being pushy in their lives this will give them a chance to help the poor and give us a chance show them Christ’s love and influence their lives with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through our minimal correspondence with them.We look forward to seeing both Christians and non-Christians get closer to Christ.

We are aiming for the following timeline of memberships, giving of support and business activity:

Although our first country to develop a village in is Haiti we hope to start working on the second country (yet to be determined) within 2 years. Our ministers and missionaries will be from all around the world, not just Haiti or any other specific country. Our desire and your desire is to help ministers, missionaries and those living in poverty all around the world.

Also after six months of about 20,000 support members the business activity alone would be enough to support over 500 ministers and missionaries even if we lost every member, which is doubtful as we all get stronger in Christ and see the good that God is doing around the world. This is an exciting and powerful opportunity to be part of with Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

Is this worth taking a chance on?                   What have we got to loose?

$10 a month and a little more time with Jesus our God and Savior.

The world will change!  You will change!

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