2. Children receive Jesus with joyful need.
Mark 10:13-16

3. Mark 10:14-15
Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children. I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.” Then he took the children in his arms and placed his hands on their heads and blessed them.

5. His disciples’ joyful help.
Jesus commands
His disciples’ joyful help.
Mark 11:1-6

6. Zechariah 14:4
On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem.

7. Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey— riding on a donkey’s colt.

8. Mark 11:1
As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives.

9. Mark 11:2
Jesus sent two of them on ahead. “Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As soon as you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden.

10. Mark 11:3
Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks, ‘What are you doing?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it and will return it soon.’”

11. Jesus commands
our joyful giving.
Mark 11:7-10

13. Brookwood = 250 giving units
Up $10 for 50 weeks:
$10 x 50= x 250 = $125,000
If every giving unit gave an additional $10/week it would add $125,000 to our annual budget.

14. 16 x 10=160; 160 x 250 = $40,000 16 weeks before budget year ends
As of Sunday, April 7, 2019:
Budgeted Goal: $1,334,272
Contribution Receipts: $1,292,948
Variance: $ (41,324)
16 weeks before budget year ends
July 31
16 x 10=160; 160 x 250 = $40,000