PRESS PRAY – Dec 19-25 – Praying for our City
Join Pastor Clint as he leads us in a time of guided prayer and intercession for our city.
PRESS PRAY – November 21-27 – Praying for our city
Join with Pastor Clint as he leads us in a time of guided prayer for our city.
PRESS PRAY – September 19-25 – Praying for our city
Join Pastor Clint as he leads us in a time of prayer for our city! Special thanks to Paclife Worship for their worship song.
Guided Prayer for the Week of August 15, 2021
Join Pastor Clint as he leads us through a systematic and guided time of prayer for our city. Special thanks to Paclife Worship for their song as well as Southland Worship for the background tracks. This format is an experiment so let Clint know what you think (comment below).
PROVIDING SHOWERS & MORE
FROM HOPE CENTRAL: New Pilot Program in the Works! In partnership with Mission Community Services, and other providers who serve our homeless population, Hope Central will be offering a new service by providing showers, grooming and an opportunity to have clean clothes. By providing this “hand up” service we will be helping our community struggling with homelessness to find dignity and hope, and remove some of the obstacles that get in the way of them applying for jobs, housing assistance and even medical care. Early November is when we would like to start offering this service. Haven in the Hollow (Mission’s Emergency Shelter) will be providing the space and Hope Central will be providing supplies and volunteers. If you would like to get involved by volunteering, donating supplies or funds we would greatly appreciate it. Volunteers are needed [...]
ENGAGED COMMUNITY GUIDE PROGRAM
It's a win-win! The ECG program hires those who have been and/or are currently homeless to build skills and contribute to the community. ECG's serve as a community ambassador to our homeless three hours a week doing things like, reporting suspected break-ins, picking-up needles, directing folks to resources, administering first-aid, and more. We're grateful to partner with other churches and local businesses in funding the Engaged Community Guide program so it can continue in Mission in 2019! This is a tangible example of our vision! We are working towards building a good world and the $1,000 given to this program came from two of our Storehouse funds (1st Stage Local Outreach & 2nd Stage Local Outreach). Thank you! If you'd like to know more about the ECG program and/or donate directly to Mission Community Services, please visit their [...]
HERITAGE PARK HEROES
A number of Parksiders helped out last Sunday with trail clearing at Heritage Park, organized by the Fraser Valley Mountain Bikers Association, and then our church building was able to house the group's lunch. See article at http://fvmba.com/heritage-park-heros/
BENEVOLENCE FUND
GIVE ONLINE We live to give! A Christian worldview sees the material things of this world as merely tools to build both ours and our neighbour's love for God. The Bible instructs us to be wise and generous managers of the material for we will all give an account for how we "spent" our life. Jesus knew that it is in our nature to protect and insure our own self-interest, but modelled what it means to deny ourselves. He gave His very life that His kindness might warm our cold hearts. Today, as His followers, we continue His ministry of warming cold hearts. Through our acts of kindness and generosity, the goodness of God is experienced in us and others. Because when we give, we (and others) actually get a small taste of what He went through for [...]
ECONOMIC VALUE OF A CHURCH
"A study has just been published showing that ten congregations in Toronto contributed a total of $45 million of economic value to the city based on a combined budget of only $10 million. In simple terms, the dollar value of having a church in a community is about 4.5 times its annual budget. The difference is called the “halo effect”, which is due to the church’s contributions to social capital and infrastructure, its programs for individual impact and community development, and other activities which add value."* Read the rest of the article here: https://www.cccc.org/news_blogs/noteworthy/2016/07/15/economic-value-of-a-church/ *An excerpt from "Economic Value of a Church" by Philip Milley. Jul. 15, 2016. https://www.cccc.org/news_blogs/noteworthy/2016/07/15/economic-value-of-a-church/
