On March 13 a lucky person won $30,000 on a lottery ticket in Baltimore, USA. However, the winner had no plans whatsoever to buy something or celebrate the big win. Instead he/she went straight to church and put the winning ticket in the collection plate.
The gift was very appreciated and well-needed by the church that had suffered from financial problems in the passed few years. The church's pas[...] Read more » Unknown person put lottery ticket worth $30,000 in the collection plate
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Mark 12:41-44 41And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
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Posted by Killuminated: Mark 12:41-44 41And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
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Nice nice nice nice... God knew that it will happen and .. it happens lol it is not Christmas for doing things like this awesome ppl .. I can say that I would not have done like he did If i had won it.. Amazing guy or lade there !
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Posted by jovicakralj: This is fooking fool!!! Now pastor will bye something AND celebrate the big win!
Hopefully this is not the case and the church will benefit from it. One can certainly wonder what happens with collection and what % the pastors take is. Recently we did a complete tear off and restucco (135k Job) of a pastors home on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota which happens to be a very, very wealthy subburb of Minneapolis. This 8400 SQ FT home sat on 2.5 acres and featured 9 bedrooms, 11 baths, 6 fireplaces. It also had its own tennis courts (2), 1/2 olympic sized swimming pool, separate guess home or maids quarters, a 3 and 2 car garage. He probably has more money in the landscaping alone on his property than what my home is worth.
they think they have buyed there way to heaven , when they get to the gates of heaven , they will show them there ticket which cost 30k, but will get turned away for not having the correct shoes on
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probably rather sent to hell neways....poker is probably a big no in heaven..sex booze drugs and all the other things we all crave wont be in heaven...seems like hell to me
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Now they only have to know if the person who gave the ticket gave it before or after knowing it was a ticket with such huge prize. I guess that, if it was before, there is only one statement in that person's head: "For god's sake!"
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Crazy...you see guys this is what religion does to you, brainwased. That guy/girl is going to be well pissed when he/she goes to church next week to see thier priest with a tan and 11 plate car stinking of Hankey Bannister.
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30.000 $ ??? This is awesome... I mean lets think about how many mobtickets he could have brought That could have been a new record of winning the draw
come on guys. He owned himself by playing lottery already
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wow, that guy must be really serious about his religion, wish i had a part of that faith. he cud have donated part of winnings too, but w/e his choice what to do with his winnings. hope they use that money properly now
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arsenej1 4/6/2011 2:13:16 PM GMT probably rather sent to hell neways....poker is probably a big no in heaven..sex booze drugs and all the other things we all crave wont be in heaven...seems like hell to me Angry
Thats wrong in heaven u have the jackpot smoke with marley,discuss with einstein, sex with marilyn and play with doc hollyday
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something like that happened here last week in ireland,a man went in to tesco (big supermarket chain) and asked for a 6euro lottery ticket,the checkout girl printed a 9euro ticket by mistake and the man refused it demanding his 6euro ticket well the girl gave him his 6euro ticket and taped the 9euro ticket to the side of the till,the 9euro ticket ended up winning 500,000 thousand euro in the lottery,now tesco is laying claim to the ticket but the girl is sueing tesco claiming she meant to pay for the ticket herself....hope she wins...this is a true story
This is really quite special, it's nice to see that there is still some very kind and generous people out there. I'm sure that money will help the church greatly and the community itself. Really nice to read
I do however find it a bit strange that he/she didn't even want to maybe have a holiday or something just to celebrate. I mean...a donation of around $20,000 would have still been amazing.
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so many people are shooting this person down for doing a generous thing and helping others, bring religion into it is just ignorant of you, its called being compassionate..
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I'm all for charity. But as far as I'm concerned the church is a corporation and giving it to the church is a bad plan. Give it to a worth while charity if ya gonna give it away.
I also love the irony; the church is anti-gambling.
That could have been a new record of winning the draw 
