We’re Launching an Outreach Campaign
On Sunday at West Ridge Church, Brian announced that we’re launching a new campaign to further the ministry impact of our church. It’s not your typical campaign, though. Rather than raising money to build buildings, we’re raising money to expand our outreach.
Over the next several weeks, we’re going to be talking through our vision to move forward with the following initiatives at West Ridge:
- Create community space in our current facility for people to gather outside the weekend services.
- Start our new West Paulding Campus to reach the folks in the western portion of our county.
- Hire young leaders to serve as “campus connectors” in our student ministry to focus on specific schools throughout our region.
- Establish The Launch Network to train and resource new church plants across the country and ultimately in various regions throughout the world.
On top of that, we’re going to be setting aside 10% of everything that comes in to fund ongoing local and global missions efforts. This campaign truly reflects an Acts 1:8 approach to ministry in our community, in our region and throughout the world.
Here’s Brian’s announcement of the new outreach campaign at Sunday’s service:
This may surprise you, but, though we live in the middle of the “Bible Belt”, 66% of my neighbors are not connected to a church. That’s what keeps my mind spinning. That’s what drives me. That’s what causes me to beg God for wisdom and direction as we take our next steps as a church. And, that’s the reason I’m so excited about the potential of this outreach campaign for West Ridge.
We have the opportunity to share “One Story” that will bring life change to people throughout our community and across the globe. I hope you’ll join me in praying for this next step for our church. I’m anticipating God to move in an amazing way.
Sounds fantastic, great clarity on vision, praying you guys have the energy, focus and endurance to see it through so God can continue to Bless you and that amazing church.
M_
Wow… a thousand churches in 10 years. That’s an exciting vision. I pray that the resources come to do more, faster than you’d even dreamed. (My heart’s beating a little faster just at the thought) I hope that the very best people get on board to support this incredible endeavor.
Tony, instead of creating space in your facility that people can hang out at why don’t you train your people to hang out at the spaces already created in society where non-Christians already gather? Why the emphasis on getting people to come to where you are? Shouldn’t it be to go to where they are, like Jesus did?
Robert, that’s a great question. We do encourage our folks to make connections with folks in the community. Honestly, because that’s the way I believe God designed us, I think it would be impossible to prevent that from happening.
Our challenge, though, is that we haven’t had any gathering spaces for people to connect with friends around the services and other ministry environments we have on campus. We’ve found that people also make relational connections with believers and non-believers on our campus. We want to encourage that.
Thanks for asking.
tony