a season of giving
Each year, we challenge ourselves to give above and beyond our normal tithes and offerings to extend generosity to our neighbors. We invite you to pray about how you can contribute toward our offering. Our goal this year is to raise at least $85,000. Explore the initiatives we are funding together through this offering as well as the impact of last year’s giving to our city and the world. Thank you for your generosity!
Read below to learn more about the initiatives supported by the Christmas Offering.
mercy and justice partners
The first priority of our Christmas Offering is sowing generously into the critical work of our ministry partners extending mercy and seeking justice across our city and around the world.
These organizations are doing critical work supporting and advocating for vulnerable communities, seeking to address injustice and inequities in our city, feeding the hungry, giving young people access to quality education, and much more.
The first $50,000 raised in this campaign will go directly to strengthen our partners as they continue their vital work.
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Good Neighbor Collaborations
One of the joys of the last few years has been the relationships we have built that have allowed us to become more engaged with our neighbors.
Through collaborations with Roots Cafe, Camp Friendship, Touching Land, Trellis, and others, we have had the opportunity to respond to the felt needs of our neighbors in simple but meaningful ways: making sandwiches, delivering fresh groceries to the homebound, teaching ESL classes, providing winter coats, Christmas gifts, school supplies and more.
Through this campaign, we will have the resources to keep expanding these Good Neighbor Collaborations.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
rebuilding at tgc
It can be easy to take the faithful presence and witness of the church for granted.
When a person walks through our doors on Sunday, when they venture to ask for help, when they begin to pray, when they entrust their kids to a volunteer, when they hope there will be a another student their age around, when someone tries a small group, or their marriage needs help… these are all the places (and many more) where the church is meant to be.
The last few years have been very challenging for the global community. As a church, we are grateful to have made it through with so much life intact. But there is still much that needs to be rebuilt.
Your giving enables us to keep proclaiming and demonstrating the gospel, and joining God in the renewal of all things. Thank you for believing in our work and investing in our future!
“All the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.”