This week we begin our journey toward our Thanksgiving Offering — a sacred moment to open our hearts wider and let compassion rise.

When government systems pause, compassion must not. Because compassion was never meant to depend on a program — it was meant to flow through people. When compassion is only structural, it can be stopped. But when compassion becomes personal, it's unstoppable.

Isaiah 61 reminds us that the Spirit of the Lord is upon us — to bring good news to the poor, healing to the brokenhearted, and freedom to the captive. God's compassion isn't something we run; it's something we carry. It doesn't start with a pantry or a program — it starts with a person.

It begins with the Spirit of God resting on a son or daughter willing to be moved by His heart.

This is the Way of Compassion:

Spirit-filled compassion.

Spontaneous compassion.

Sustained compassion.

In this season, God is building not just a people who serve, but a house of priests — sons and daughters marked by mercy, ministers of His presence in ordinary places.

Because for us, the poor are not our projects; they are our partners. The rescued become rescuers. And every act of compassion becomes an altar — a place where heaven touches earth.

The Divine Dream is a Dwelling Place — a House of ministers before God. His House filled with His Presence. His Presence upon His People.