At the CBWC Foundation we offer financial services to individuals, pastors and churches of the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada (CBWC). In addition, these services are offered to the camping ministries of the CBWC and to Carey Theological College.
Our services include banking (saving accounts and loans), student grants, planned giving and investments. We invite you to explore these services on this website.
What we do with our money doesn’t lie. It is a bold statement to God of what we truly value. But what we do with our money doesn’t simply indicate where our heart is, according to Jesus it determines where the heart goes. If I want my heart to be in one place and not another, then I need to put my money in that place and not the other.
Do you wish you had a greater heart for the poor and lost? Then give your money to help the poor and help reach the lost. Do you want your heart to be in your church? Put your money there. Your heart will always be where your money is and not where your money isn’t. If most of your money is in mutual funds, retirement, your house, or your hobby, that’s where your heart is going to be.
Suppose you’re giving to help African children with AIDS or you’re sponsoring a child in Haiti. When you see an article on the subject, you’re hooked. If you are sending money to churches in India and an earthquake hits India, you watch the news and fervently pray. Why? Because your heart is where your treasure is.
“My heart isn’t in all the things of God.” Is it because your treasure isn’t in the things of God? Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time, talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.
Alcorn, R. (2003). Money, Possessions and Eternity. Wheaton, IL: Tynedale House Publishers Inc. p101
