This is the first letter I have ever written to you On behalf of my father Dr Robert Schuller.

It was Dad’s intention from the very beginning for the positive message of Jesus Christ to be sown far and wide… to persons who did not have a faith of their own.
I was only four years old in 1955 when he delivered his first Sunday morning message in California. He sowed those first seeds of faith from the rooftop of a drive-in theatre half a mile down the street from where the Crystal Cathedral stands today.

And, my goodness, just look at the good soil where those seeds fell and took root in the hearts of loving persons. In the 15 years between 1955 and 1970, the church grew to 8,000 members.
In an amazing act of faith in 1970, the church membership voted to sow multiplied seeds by televising their exciting Sunday morning service.

Six years later, by 1976, our televised service Hour of Power was seen by nearly two million persons in North America alone – and that year we became an international outreach with Hour of Power telecasts starting in Australia and extending to New Zealand in 1995.
Yes, the positive seeds of faith that this ministry has scattered and sown over the years have yielded an incredible harvest!

I am very proud of my father’s faith-filled legacy and I am determined and dedicated to honour and continue the positive ministry that he began and grew to amazing fruition, with God’s help.
Recently, we announced a new and very specific, God-inspired vision that we now feel called to sow in our world today:

“To inspire and motivate people through possibility thinking to grow in a loving relationship with Jesus Christ so that they can become the persons God desires, dreams and designed them to be”.

The spirit of this statement will be sown from the pulpit of the Crystal Cathedral through the televised Hour of Power in every message, every song, every anthem, every interview, every choral number and every scripture reading that you see and hear coming from our service.
We believe that we now have an exciting, new and clear vision.

Today I’m writing to you to invite you to be part of the ongoing vision for New Zealand.

In New Zealand we were first able to secure the financial resources needed to buy television and radio airtime for Hour of Power through a group of dedicated committed friends we call the Growing 5000.
Over 15 years after those first seeds were planted by the Growing 5000, Hour of Power remains on air in your country, what a blessing! And that is because every year generous, faithful New Zealandns who share God’s dream for this ministry sow seeds of hope and help by joining the Growing 5000.

Will you say ‘Yes’ to becoming one of our Growing 5000 supporters today?

Your annual support of $300 or $25 a month will really make a difference in sowing seeds of God’s love in hearts that are longing to embrace and be nourished by a life-changing faith that they have never known.
As a Growing 5000 supporter you will also grow in your faith and in the courage you will find to achieve your goals because you will be tapped into a source of positive life-changing materials that we will send to you in quarterly packages plus other mailings.

I’m also excited that we have prepared a choice of beautiful gifts for you as a Growing 5000 supporter this year. See the enclosed pictures of our porcelain table-box with a Spring-time themed lid and the sparrow music box.
As you look at your choice of gift, you will be reminded of the seeds you have sown through your Growing 5000 donations, seeds of hope and faith planted in the lives of hurting people who need our weekly Hour of Power programme to encourage and inspire them through their most challenging times.

Use the enclosed Growing 5000 invitation to become part of our team of seed sowing possibility-thinking leaders who want to spread the positive gospel of Jesus in New Zealand. Through our move to PRIME TV there a re new people tuning into Hour of Power who need to know more about God's love for them.

God loves you and so do I!.

Dr. Sheila Schuller-Coleman
Director of Ministry & Mission
PS Your porcelain box or music box will look beautiful on a dressing table or bedside table, desk or mantle piece or wherever you choose in your home. I look forward to knowing you are sowing seeds of hope and help through your Growing 5000 support.

Donate $25 monthly as a GR5 member & please send me the porcelain box
Donate $75 quarterly as a GR5 member & please send me the porcelain box
Donate $150 half-yearly as a GR5 member & please send me the porcelain box
Donate $300 annually as a GR5 member & please send me the porcelain box

Donate $25 monthly as a GR5 member & please send me the music box
Donate $75 quarterly as a GR5 member & please send me the music box
Donate $150 half-yearly as a GR5 member & please send me the music box
Donate $300 annually as a GR5 member & please send me the music box

Donate $25 monthly as a Growing 5000 member
Donate $75 quarterly as a Growing 5000 member
Donate $150 half-yearly as a Growing 5000 member
Donate $300 annually as a Growing 5000 member

My Donation to keep Hour Of Power on air in New Zealand but unable to join as a Growing 5000 member

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