2019 ANNUAL REPORT
OUR MINISTERS
Josh Beck Outreach
Rick Bushnell Pastoral Care
Logan Greer Youth
Josh Huckabay Creative Arts
Sy Huffer Lead
Titus Neuenschwander Adult
Josh Quade College Age
Aaron Wheeler Small Groups
Jeff White Operations & Care
Ann Wolfe Children
OUR ELDERS Dick Crabill
Dave DeSonier Chris DeWelt
Ed Hahn
Dale Harrington
Steve Jennings
Larry Jordan
Dave Mehrens
Gregg Murdock
Bob Nunnally Keith Wilkins
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OUR STAFF Carol Bowland . . . . . . . . Admin/Care/Women Pete Braeckel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maintenance Madeline Bridgford . . College/Young Adults Donna Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Wendy Dean . . . . . . . Preaching/Creative Arts Steve Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities Dave DeSonier . . . . . . . . . . Administrator/CFO Joe Earhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Business Office Ashton Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creative Arts Nick Enabnit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middle School Elaine Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Business Office Tosha Funderburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . Elementary Mary George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Receptionist Renee Hazlewood . . . . . . . . . . Early Childhood Tim Heidner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities Garrett Holle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elementary Jonathan Horton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IT Manager Joe Keeling . . . . . . . . . . . Custodial Supervisor Ashley King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adult Kasey Longing . . . . . . . . . . . . . Early Childhood Amy Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Kaylee Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . College Age Nathan Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High School Lois Pickering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Early Childhood Brenda Pollen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Business Office Mark Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preaching Team Vicky Stuck . . . . . . . . . Facilities/Senior Adults Alec Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creative Arts Becca White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Team Shane Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preaching Team Bre Worstell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach
COLLEGE HEIGHTS ANNUAL REPORT
MAKING DISCIPLES WHO CHANGE THE WORLD Your church leadership has constructed a bold plan of ministry to continue our mission of making disciples who change the world. We celebrate a wonderful past year but commit ourselves to even more lives coming to Christ in the new one. Join us in this journey of being God’s people at College Heights Christian Church.
OUR PLAN OF MINISTRY 3
To Create Environments for Everyone to Engage Others and Encounter God The Creative Arts Ministry is a support ministry of the church, creating and facilitating environments, both physical and digital, for people of all ages to engage others and encounter God. This occurs through things like planning and leading weekly worship services, creating video content, managing our digital communication, building and designing sets and props, leading our guest services team, managing the audio and visual needs of other ministry departments, and assisting our involvement process for newcomers to church. The Creative Arts Ministry leads and/or facilitates 150+ worship services where people of all ages engage others and encountere God through singing, teaching, prayer, and interactive elements. These moments of worship connect our church and reach out to welcome others into the presence of God. The Creative Arts Ministry also plans and coordinates many of our allchurch events and initiatives. Last year, the Creative Art Ministry helped us celebrate College Heights’ 50th Anniversary and was responsible for the promotion and reporting of our SPARK generosity initiative, creating informational catalogs, webpages, and filming stories of life change. Our budget total goes toward funding special events throughout the year, training and developing our leaders, paying for copyrights to ethically support the creatives in the global church, maintaining and repairing our equipment, creating original content that is a renewable resource for our church, shepherding over 130 volunteers, and providing new equipment in our developing worship spaces for the thousands of people who choose to worship at College Heights.
Budget Total: $671,000 (This includes a percentage of the ministers’ salaries; expenses and insurance; support staff salaries; custodial salary; janitorial supplies; telephone; copier; insurance, maintenance and utilities.)
To Nurture People in Their Faith Journey The Adult Ministry Team consists of four departments working together. The Small Group Ministry is all about intentional community discipleship. We are creating a stronger culture where small groups become the relational environment for authentically growing followers of Jesus. Last year we had over 50 small groups with over 650 adults meeting together. Three times a year small group leaders are offered training, and we want to provide care for these leaders throughout the year from other experienced leaders. The College Age Ministry pursues students at Missouri Southern State University and Ozark Christian College and helps prepare students for what’s next in relationships, careers, families, and lifelong ministry involvement. On Sunday nights we hosted an average of 125 students at Upper Room. Community groups and discipleship groups meet throughout the year to grow students in their faith. We are committed to become a church for even more college students. This past year the Family Ministry hosted over 50 people at two marriage retreats. Couples experiencing hard times have been connected to professional and lay counsels and marriage restoration teams. We hosted a parent seminar in cooperation with Christ’s Church of Oronogo entitled Gospel Centered Parenting that connected with 70+ parents. The Pastoral/Senior Adult Ministry provides care to our church family members in homes, hospitals, and healthcare centers due to sickness or other health concerns. Presently, we have 30 people who are affirmed, valued, and loved by their faith family. Every Friday our volunteers deliver meals to homebound friends. We have many faithful volunteers who serve at Crosslines Ministries, which clothes and feeds 1000 people each month. The Adult Ministry Team is proud of the 50+ dedicated teachers and volunteers who study, teach, train, and communicate Scripture in Sunday morning and Wednesday night adult classes and electives. Learning prepares the head and heart for Kingdom service.
Budget Total: $614,000 (This includes a percentage of the ministers’ salaries, expenses, insurance; support staff salaries; custodial salary; janitorial supplies; telephone; copier; insurance, maintenance, and utilities.)
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So That Kids Love Jesus “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me also welcomes my Father who sent me. Whoever is the least among you is the greatest.” —Jesus (Luke 9:48) Our Youth and Children’s Ministry Team comprises the Early Childhood (Babies, Toddlers, Pre-K, and K), Children’s (grades 1-5), Middle School (grades 6-8), and High School (grades 9-12) ministries. This team and these ministries exist so that kids love Jesus! Everything we do is for that purpose. According to the church database, College Heights Christian Church serves more than 1000 people below the age of 18! We have programs on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights, as well as special events, trips, small groups, Bible studies, prayer groups, and beyond. Each program is designed to teach the Gospel according to kids’ unique needs during this time of their lives, and help them choose to follow Jesus. To that end, over half the baptisms in the last year have been kids below the age of 18. The only way our Church can achieve this discipleship is together! It takes more than 400 volunteers serving in these ministries! Many of them giving their time every week, pouring the love of Jesus into the hearts and minds of our children. These amazing volunteers do the hard (and fun) work of holding babies, changing diapers, playing with toddlers, teaching lessons, facilitating small group discussions, driving busses, cooking meals, sharing the gospel, watching basketball games, doing Bible studies, counseling, opening homes, and gently correcting, training, and building up according to the Word of God…and of course praying, praying, praying! Our hope for the future is to see these ministries grow! We want to see growth in the number of kids following Jesus, growth in the depth of their daily faith, and growth in the number of dedicated adults discipling kids. We also desire to create even better learning environments—creating spaces and places where kids feel a distinct sense of belonging, love, engagement, safety, and freedom to face their doubts, explore God’s love, and grow in their faith through the often tumultuous times of their childhood.
Budget Total: $703,000 (This includes a percentage of the ministers’ salaries, expenses, and insurance; support staff salaries; custodial salary; janitorial supplies; telephone; copier; insurance, maintenance and utilities.)
In Faithful Service Beyond Ourselves The Outreach Ministry Team consists of three “legs” working together. The work of the first “leg”, Global Outreach, is to raise up, send out, and sustain workers overseas in order to help plant churches around the world. This requires prayer, finances, people from our congregation, and partnerships with nationals. Because we cannot do everything, we have chosen areas of concentration which reflect our definition of missions and our core values. Currently, we engage specific unreached people groups in Southeast Asia (Tai Dam), Central Asia (Pashtun), Eastern Europe (Bosniaks), North Africa (Rifi Berber), and Refugees Immigrants and Internationals in various areas. We also work with organizations like GNPI, LATM, CIY, and Rapha House who partner with indigenous believers in church planting, discipleship, justice issues, and leadership development. Community Outreach works to develop partnerships with local organizations like Life Choices Health Network, Watered Gardens, God’s Resort and Life House (and others) and to create avenues for the church family to engage in holistic ministry within our community in the name of Jesus through service opportunities, relationship building, etc. We help organize community events, connect small groups to community partners, and facilitate our One Less Gift campaign. Some of our community partners lie outside of Joplin, like Cookson Hills and Maranatha Bible Camp. Ultimately, we want to increase our Kingdom Influence in the community and city where we’ve been planted. Church Planting is third “leg” of the Outreach Ministry. God calls us to multiply on every level, and this includes the church-wide level! We have set a goal to help plant three churches in five years (we are in year two of that goal). Right now, we are seeking to partner with others who can teach us what it means to be a church-planting church. The first of these three church plants launched January 27 in Thousand Oaks, CA in partnership with Stadia Church Planting, Shepherd Church, University Christian Church L.A., Discovery Church and a few others. We are currently searching for the second church plant to partner with. After we have paid off our debt through the SPARK initiative, we will financially contribute to help plant these churches. We know this is just a start to how God wants to use us to plant churches, to multiply, in the four states and beyond!
Budget Total: $928,000
(This total includes a percentage of the ministers’ salaries, expenses, and insurance; support staff salaries; custodial salary; janitorial supplies; telephone; copier; insurance, maintenance and utilities.)
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Global and Community Outreach Team
Creative Arts Team 23%
32% Youth and Children’s Ministry 24% Adult Ministry 21%
Total needed to fulfill our mission of
MAKING DISCIPLES THAT CHANGE THE WORLD
Creative Arts Team...................................................................... $671,000 Adult Team...................................................................................$614,000 Youth and Children’s Teams......................................................... $703,000 Global & Community Outreach & Church Planting..................... $928,000 TOTAL................................................................................ $2,916,000 A detailed line-item budget is available in the Atrium for any who wish to review it.