Orange Avenue Church of Christ
Ministry Plan 2014
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Orange Avenue is compelled
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range Avenue’s heart beats for people…those across the street and in other parts of the world. Orange Avenue’s heartbeat is being felt in neighboring communities and distant places such as the Ukraine and Cuba to name a few. These are truly amazing days at Orange Avenue. Lives are changing all around us. Your gifts to the Lord’s work are making a difference today that will pay eternal dividends. There are hungry people being fed, children taught about Jesus, teenagers discovering their faith, and Prime Timers enjoying the company of friends. God is being worshiped, relationships are forming and the blood of Christ is saving lost people. God is up to something in our midst. We sense that God wants to take us to another level of commitment individually and as a church. God desires relationship with us and demands radical commitment from us. His heart beats for people-all people. His desire is for His church to be about adjusting our lives and aligning our priorities to bring God glory. To this end, Orange Avenue is designing next year’s budget with this in mind. We are asking you to prayerfully consider this budget, and while praying, ask God to use you in powerful, new ways to do your part in making it happen. Please pray that Orange Avenue will always have a heart for people. We love you! Stay fired up! The Shepherds and Ministry Team at Orange Avenue Church of Christ
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Go Global with the Gospel “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.” 2 Corinthians 5.14
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… • Extend the reach of the Gospel through mission trips for our Student Ministry. • Support the work of Rex Morgan in broadcasting the Gospel in Spanish to the majority of the Spanish-speaking world. • Support the work of the Gospel in Russia and the Ukraine. • Support mission work in Jamaica.
Ministry Investment for this area:
$25,600
Global missions are reaching the world one soul at a time. Orange Avenue has been a faithful partner with Christian Productions International in reaching Latin Americans with the saving message of Christ. In 1986 Anna Duque was hungering to understand God’s will for her life. Only God could have seen the impact His Word would have on her family and her native country, Columbia. Today, four generations of her family have been brought to the Lord. Partnering with this mission work, as a member of Orange Avenue, you are entering into thousands of homes each week with the hope and peace of Christ, including some of the world’s most difficult places, like Cuba.
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Gather for Worship “All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord; they will bring glory to your name” Psalm 86.9
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… • • • • • •
Provide God-centered worship. Celebrate the Lord’s Supper and baptism. Communicate and provide information. Have great guest speakers. Provide sound, lights and video. Provide the necessary resources including program budgets, staff, facilities and administrative expenses.
Ministry Investment in this area: $346,642 We gather together for worship to exalt our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as one body, one heart, and one mind. Each of us having many different gifts, coming together to worship and serve the Lord for one common goal.
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Impact Our Community And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6.9
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… • -Extend the reach of the gospel into the communities that surround Orange Avenue. • -Help with caring for children by investing in the work of the Mt. Dora Children’s Home. • -Join in outreach to the youth of Florida through Central Florida Bible Camp. • -Adopt the families of the children that attend Eustis Heights Elementary and help with physical and spiritual needs. • -Adopt teachers at Eustis Heights Elementary School and help with classroom activities and purchasing needed supplies. • -Mentor students with life coaching, tutor reading and math at Eustis Heights Elementary. • -Provide a place and time to equip others for outreach through the Spiritual Growth Workshop.
Ministry Investment for this area:
$19,400
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Do Life Together “All believers were together and had everything in common.” Acts 2:42
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… • Provide quality opportunities for our adults to learn about the Bible and fellowship with others through Adult Education. • Conduct a Vacation Bible School in the summer to teach the Bible to our children and those in the surrounding community. • Purchase supplies for use in building fellowship opportunities and teach the Bible. • Offer numerous opportunities throughout the year to take part in fellowship such as dinners and lunches. • Make available a Women’s Ministry to give opportunity for the ladies of Orange Avenue to grow in fellowship and service opportunities.
Ministry Investment in this Area:
$11,100
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Prepare the Next Generation “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… • Be a leading participant in the Lads to Leaders program that offers intensive Bible study to students. • Provide mission trip opportunities for our students so they can become mission minded adults. • Provide times and places for students to be in community with each other that are safe both physically and spiritually. • Offer a current and relevant curriculum to our youth for use in their Bible classes and small groups. • Provide the necessary resources in this area including program budgets, respective staff, facilities and administrative expenses.
Ministry Investment in this Area:
$55,000
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Help the Hurting “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress...” James 1:27
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… • Provide food to those who are hungry. This is focused mainly in our local Eustis community but through your giving we never turn anyone away. • Provide emergency assistance to those in immediate need, such as gas money, or a hotel room for the night. • Provide members of Orange Avenue with opportunities to serve others in the name of Jesus.
Ministry Investment in this Area: $1200 plus numerous personal, confidential contributions from many members at Orange Avenue. Also includes the proceeds from the Love Offering on May 18, 2014
Orange Avenue is compelled to… Increase our Ministry Capacity To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Ephesians 3:21
Your faithfulness enables Orange Avenue to… Collect four special Love Offerings this year to increase our Ministry Impact. These offerings will enable us to keep our regular budget balance and invest the remainder in new opportunities to advance the Kingdom of God here and around the world. The proceeds of each Love Offering will first balance our Ministry Plan Budget and then the remainder will be invested in: March 30 - Support of the 2014 Spiritual Growth Workshop, to make it a place of renewal and refreshing, and to equip God’s people to advance the Kingdom of God. May 18 - The offering will be divided in half. 50% to support of Orange Ave. benevolence outreach into our immediate community and 50% to support the Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Ministry. August 24 - This offering will be divided in half. 75% to begin a bus purchase fund to buy a bus for use by the Orange Ave. members and 25% to fund outreach to the faculty, students and families at Eustis Heights Elementary School. November 23 - This offering will be applied to our building debt so we can pay it off quickly and invest more money into ministering to this community. Our Goals for Orange Avenue Financially in the Next 10 Years: 1. To be a debt free congregation. 2. To make ministry in the name of Jesus such a priority that 51% of every dollar given goes back out into the community for ministry. 3. That we have an average attendance of 500 each Sunday with a weekly budget of $20,000. 4. That more and more souls are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ; that the members of 5. Orange Ave. are fully involved in some ministry to the community and that we are able to financially support mission work in our community and the world beyond.