Does Jesus’ Blood Inspire You to GIVE Blood?
By Elder Candidate Justin Schaeffer
I thought I’d chime in here on the Ol’ Shoreline blog because I just read something disappointing about our last 3 blood drives at the Shoreline Campus. On an email from the blood drive coordinator, she mentioned that our givers had gone from 38 to 31 to 20 over the last three blood drives. This past Sunday we had 760 people at our campus listening to a wonderfully convicting sermon about the hope we have in heaven and God’s gracious patience that allows us to repent. Out of the 550 adults who came last week, can we seriously not find 40 suitable givers, willing to sacrifice 30min of their time to possibly save a life!
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:8). How shall we live in response to such a love?! Shall we hoard our blood and our time to our selves? OR shall we live in generous wild freedom and joy, giving liberally of our time and not counting any of our possession (including our own blood) our own, but gifts from God meant to be stewarded as a picture of His grace, pointing to Him and His glory in everything? (that was a LONG sentence/ question)
Mars Hill Shoreline! I do NOT want to guilt any of you into giving blood this Sunday. I want to INSPIRE you to give blood this Sunday! Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Jesus’ sake will gain it. Lose your life for Jesus. Pour out your blood for others.
CLICK HERE to make an appointment to give this Sunday or walk-in anytime between 10:30am-4:30pm.
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Wow!! We ate now up over 22 people signed up! With plenty of walk INS I think we could actually make it up to 38!
Here’s a message from Monette from Puget Sound Blood Center.
“Thanks so much for doing such an EXCELLENT job at coordinating Sunday’s drive. It went off without a hitch and we had a great turnout thanks to your extra efforts to get donors in the door. This week’s drive turnouts are very critical for us as we really struggle with filling our hospital needs for O negative and O positive blood and successful drives like this really make all the difference at tough times like this. We were able to surpass our goal on Sunday with 35 registered donors! Of the donors registered only 4 were deferred meaning we collected 31 units of badly needed blood which will go to support up to 93 patients in our local hospitals. Also we registered 10 more first time donors. Way to go!”