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Offering baskets at Ark. church move in reverse

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[September 09, 2009]  NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The offering baskets at a North Little Rock church were operating in reverse. Summit Church on Sunday dished out $5,000 to needy members of its congregation. Pastor Bill Elliff says worshippers received cash to pay medical and electric bills, buy children's school clothes, make a security deposit for an apartment and replace a broken washing machine.

At the end of Sunday's service, Elliff says baskets with small bills were laid out at the front of the sanctuary, and he told members to take it.

Elliff says leaders at the Southern Baptist church decided on the act a few weeks ago as part of a sermon series on giving. He says the church had studied first-century Christians in Asia Minor and Jerusalem who shared money and possessions despite their own poverty.

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Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com/

[Associated Press]

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