The XM ChallengeBig Fire Down the Road From Us – The XM Challenge https://www.rickbergen.net Help Plant 1,000 Churches Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 169531157 Big Fire Down the Road From Us https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=511 https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=511#respond Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:59:00 +0000 Rick Bergen http://www.rickbergen.net/2010/12/18/big-fire-down-the-road-from-us/ This week a big warehouse burned to the ground just a couple of miles from us, very near where I run in the mornings. This is was the main warehouse for 66 department stores in the Marabá region. Damage estimates vary from $10,000,000 by one blogsite to $40,000,000 by a store manager I was talking to yesterday to $690,000,000 (one billion reias) by the state daily newspaper (quoted from the link below). The Leolar warehouse was loaded in preparation for Christmas shopping.

This is money wasted. Gone.

What could we have done with ten percent of that loss? We could have built a training center, upgraded our old vehicles and developed a church-planting fund to assist the newly trained workers in start-ups. Well…we can do that anyway. God’s economy is so different from ours. All week I have been thinking of the Little / Big principle. God watches all of us to see if we are faithful with what we have. He hopes He can entrust us with more. Have you ever been in a place where you wish you had more trustworthy workers? God is in that place.

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http://www.diarioonline.com.br/noticia-124832-fogo-destroi-deposito-de-loja-em-maraba.html

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