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Cool Products!
Annointed Art
and Music. Fierce writings! Radical T-shirts!
You know, it's the wierdest thing. People keep coming and telling us that God gave them a poem or a book or a song or art and WE are supposed to publish and distribute it and use all the money for the kingdom! So we're having to learn on the fly as more and more of this stuff pours in.
You might think that we're merchandising the church by selling things. We've prayed a lot about it and here's what we came to. Which is more honest? To stick our hand out and ask for charity and make you bet on that we'll use the money wisely - or to sell you something with high value at a reasonable price and use the profits for the kingdom? You see, in America Christians give 2% to church and charity and spend 50% on discretionary products (stuff they don't truly HAVE to have to survive). So it seems to me we should stop fighting over the 2% and start selling stuff! You see, we're not a charity. Essentially, this is a for-profit business using all the profit for the kingdom. Nobody is sticking their hand out begging. God meets our every need without asking anybody for anything. We just help folks hear God better and if God tells them to give something, then we check and make sure it was God (cause we don't want anything from anybody if it wasn't His idea), and if it checks out, we receive it and seek Him about what to do with it.
There are lots of things we give away, we try not to give away "meat". All of our Christian growth books and writings are available free online and you only have to pay for them if you want a bound, hard copy. But if it's entertaining or uplifting or funny or convicting or wearable or useful in some practical way, then it's a "want" and not a "need," so why not charge for it? You can be sure we're going to use all available income in the most cost-effective manner and only as the Lord directs.
Until we get the volume up enough to do larger runs, we're using Cafe Press because they can do things one-at-a-time without setup charges and they will handle all the shipping and handling. Seems like good stewardship and we don't have any overhead.
We're especially proud to be the only place online to buy the unique artwork of Clare Kaegi. She was sent by God from Australia to help restore the Church of Liberty. She is donating profits from all of her art to be used here as the Lord directs! Dozens of AMAZING designs! Unique Australian wildflowers and wildlife all done to glorify God. Nature is His creation and we can bring Him glory by showing the complexity and diversity of it! Her art is done with a technical pen with a 0.015mm point and custom blended inks. Basically like drawing one dot at a time with a hair!! It's truly amazing.
These are great gifts and sure to be a hit with anyone - and all the money goes into the local community and to build up the kingdom. Stay tuned, LOTS more stuff is coming!!
Not available just quite yet. But coming SOON!
