go,” he says. “We minister to the people who live in the downtown Indianapolis area, who are homeless, low-income people—people who are struggling.” Although Tom pastors an inner-city church and admits, “we don’t have a lot,” he encourages new Christians like Robert to find a way to give. “These are people who themselves are standing on the corners asking for money. These are people who are homeless. But I encourage them to give what they can to Annie Armstrong. I tell them the money is go- ing to missionaries who are sharing the gospel around the country. I did that for about three weeks, leading


up to the Sunday we took up the Annie offering.” On that Sunday, Robert had a surprise for Tom. “Robert handed me a large cylinder and it had some weight to it. I asked him what it was, and he told me it was his offering. ‘I’ve been finding this money and have been dedicating it to the Lord,’ Robert told me. I thought of the woman with the two pennies who gave all she had,” says Tom. “That’s Robert.”


Tom says Christians don’t always meet the “Rob- erts” of the world. “We may see them on the corner or may bump into them downtown, but do we see


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