Christmas came early for the congregation of Transformation Church in Bixby, Oklahoma, and the people they blessed with $3.5 million in gifts Sunday.
The megachurch, pastored by Michael and Natalie Todd, encouraged its congregation and community with a Giving Spree Sunday service in which Transformation blessed families and nonprofits with debt forgiveness and even a new house for one especially downtrodden and deserving family.
Pastor Mike Todd posted on his Instagram:
"3.5 MILLION DOLLARS GIVEN AWAY TODAY."
He shared the tear-filled responses from his members of his congregation receiving parts of the blessing, saying:
"TC NATION — YOU DID THIS! I'm so proud to lead such a generous church!"
$200,000 was given toward personal debts and over $1.55 million to other church communities. But the church's generosity didn't stop with the congregation.
$65,000 went toward buying out Silhouette Sneakers and Art, an entire shoe store, to donate the shoes to a boys' home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The store owner, Vaneeta Cooper, says Transformation Church "made a lot of dreams come true this past weekend" and expressed gratitude on behalf of the store and the boys' home receiving the donations.
The generosity is having a ripple effect, inspiring others to start their own "blessing train" as one Twitter user calls it:
Listening to this. I wanna bless someone! Let's do a blessing train drop your $cashapp, then repost and bless someone else. I have crazy faith for financial freedom for my family so that I can bless others! #goanddothesame #transformationchurchhttps://t.co/MjZ3nBzKGP
— Jackie Bazemore (@jlbazemore123) December 16, 2020
Wow. And all for the glory of God! It's been such a beautiful and empowering thing to witness!
— Rae-Ann Whyte (@WhyteRae91) December 13, 2020
Go and do the same!
I....Just.....#TransformationChurch @transformtulsa pic.twitter.com/1qN5FSdyOK
In total, some 15,000 people donated to the offering.
"God has been so faithful to this church. He's been so faithful to Transformation nation... Last week, we gathered as a church to give in an end of the year offering that we call our 'crazy faith' offering," White said during his sermon. "And I want to tell you a total right now, but the truth is people are still giving. The level of faithfulness in the middle of a pandemic... We had over 15,000 people participate in actually giving."
Last year, Transformation Church's "crazy faith offering" was $1.2 million, and this year, members challenged themselves to do more.
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