It's just not enough....
All righty then.... all you lottery winners out there, if you want to give 5,000 to ME, well I'll just accept it and keep my mouth shut. I'll also provide a free blessing.
wcr:05/08/2006 — Title:
Once a Winnipeg woman hit a jackpot of $1.8 million in the Super 7 and decided to give the Church $5,000. Her pastor, Father Darrin Gurr, rejected the offering because it wasn't generous enough.
"I'm sorry but I cannot accept your gift," he told the woman. "If I accept your gift I probably would be doing malpractice because I would be giving you the impression that you are being generous. This is not generosity; this is a token gift."
He suggested the woman give around five per cent of her earnings to the Church and a similar amount to the community. His fellow priests thought he was crazy to reject the woman's gift.
But to their surprise, the woman returned a couple of weeks later with a cheque for $80,000 for the church. And she gave an additional $80,000 to inner city charities to fund a two-day food basket for street people.