A church that gave each member $500 with orders to bless their community are reporting a big difference in the lives of thousands.

LaSalle Church had made a real estate deal that provided significant funding.  The church gave $500 to each member in September and pastor Laura Truax says the ways God has used the money is amazing.

One couple, Janet & Jim MIlkovich, donated their money to a program called Breakthrough Urban Food Ministries that provide healthy meals to seniors.

“It was wonderful,” Janet Milkovich told Christian Post. “The manager of the Fresh Market Pantry said that there are a lot of senior citizens on the west side of Chicago that depend on the fresh market and are so appreciative of produce and they were going to make sure that they were able to get healthy food.”

One member contributed his money to a missionary in Ivory Coast who was helping a woman that was cast out by her family.  The woman had lost a leg due to an infection.

“What he was struck by was the amount that was needed which was exactly $500,” Pastor Truax said. “So Eric’s money went to this woman in the Ivory Coast who needed a prosthetic leg. This is just the way God does it though, right?”

“That’s the economy of God, we weren’t created to be tight fisted people, we were created to be open handed people,” she said. “To move past our fear. That’s what’s going on.”