Awakend Heart is a Tithing Community

Awakened Heart is a tithing community. That means that each month we share a meaningful percentage of our gross income from the tithes and offerings that we gratefully receive from our congregants with others who have been our spiritual soure.  At the bottom of the page is a running list of the individuals and entities to whom we have tithed in recent years.

About Tithing

Receiving
In order to grow, we must be willing to receive; otherwise, we invite lack into our experience. Interestingly, when we refuse a gift, we temporarily block the Law of Circulation for ourselves and the other person. The Law never stops working, of course, but we can easily redirect it to go elsewhere.

Giving
In order to grow, we must also be willing to give a meaningful portion of what we have away; otherwise, with only an inflow of Good, we invite stagnation into our experience. Giving creates the space for more and greater Good. Knowing that the Universe always conspires for our Good and Its own expansion, we know It rushes in to fill this space tenfold with new manifestations of even greater Abundance.

Therefore, we keep money (and an abundance of all of God’s Good) flowing to us by being a gracious giver and a grateful receiver.

Tithing
Tithing is the sacred practice of routinely giving money to those sources who feed our spiritual growth. We have many such sources to whom we are immensely grateful who feed our awareness of the Divine and our personal growth in a myriad of ways.

Below is a list of those to whom we have gratefully given 5 - 10% of our gross income from Sunday Services. Each month the CORE Council votes on potential recipients.  Please note that some months we split our tithe in order to accommodate two highly worthwhile suggestions.

9/19/10          Vessa Fulton  (July)

9/19/10          African Water Wells  (Aug)

10/24/10        Jeanne Susie  (Sept)

11/24/10        Friends of Peace Train  (Oct)

12/14/10        Rev Irene Robinson  (Nov)

12/14/10        Dancer /UofD  (Nov)     

1/9/11            Beverly Roberts   (Dec)

1/16/11          Buzz Ware Village Center  (Dec)

No Tithe for February

3/28/11          Ecclesia/Rev Rhetta Morgan  (Jan) 

3/21/11          Dr. J. Ellerby   (Feb)

4/10/11          MaryamKabur Faye  (Mar)

5/18/11          Maryam Kabur Faye  (April)

6/19/11          Grace Brame  (May)

7/17/11          Colin Tipping/Radical Forgiveness Author  (June)

8/21/11          West London Mtg House (split of July)

8/21/11          Vessa Fulton   (split of July)

9/18/11          United Centers for Spiritual Living (course curriculum authors) (August)

10/16/11        Marcie Baruch  (September)

11/16/11        Jean Susie  (October)

12/18/11        Patrick Barry  (November)

1/15/2012      Chef Mike Maucher  (portion of December) 

1/15/2012      New Thought Philadelphia/Rev. Bill Marchiony  (December)