…And so, I was wondering,

 (From the Sermon on 7/16/17)
...​if it might be appropriate to call for a special offering of praise might generate out of this thankfulness for our electing a New General Minister and President who also happens to be the first African American Woman to head a Major Denomination in the World?  Would that be appropriate?  We could donate it to her office and let her decide what God might do with the over and above giving.
 
You know $I dollar – with George Washington’s face on it might be an appropriate gift.  After all, Washington was the first…and he got credit for being the first.
 
But then there is Lincoln who authored the Emancipation Proclamation and called for Abolition from Slavery….maybe a $5 gift would be okay too. 
 
But Hamilton, was a few steps ahead of his time and called for Abolition of slavery long before Lincoln….maybe a $10 note with his face would be a good idea.
 
Now, Jackson was a racist.  I’ve walked on the property he once “owned” and saw the fields where slaves were held and I also know how he ordered the removal of first nation people from the east to west of the Mississippi river…And, speaking only for myself, I would gladly see him replaced on the $20 note, but would a donation of $20send a strong message that racism cannot own us….Dr. Teresa Hord Owens said it her speech, “This is where we go high and nothing will hold us back.”
 
But then Grant, a man who put his life on the line to end Slavery, is on the $50 bill…that might be a big sacrifice for those of us to whom $50 is a lot of money.
 
But then there is Benjamin Franklin…and he’s on the $100.  He wasn’t a president, but he did like experiments and did write documents that started us on a path to freedom and equality.
 
Oh, never mind me, I’m just a preacher who has walked up the mountain, seen the face of God, and I’ve come down again to the place where live and breathe and have my being.  You should let God guide you to do what’s best.