DAVID JOYNT
Senior Pastor
Read the Pastor's Reports starting on page 15
"For every reason to be grateful for 2024 there are just as many reasons for excitement in 2025."
SERMON SERIES
442 average weekly in-person guests
521 average weekly livestream viewership
17 baptisms in 2024
1320 Christmas Eve guests
DIGITAL
1k
VPC Mobile App downloads
50k people reached through Facebook
14.6k video views on YouTube
25k guests visited vpc.church
5855 customers served
$138k total net sales
18,681 total transactions
CARE & HELP
120 on Congregational Care team: 36 Deacons + 84 volunteers
77 care packages sent to college students connected to VPC
13memorial receptions hosted, ranging in size from 25-200+
99 units of blood donated at three blood drives
61 campers attended Forest Home camps
4 college interns
17 Mission Trip participants
15 volunteer leaders
6 youth new members
288 hours serving the unhomed at Community House
336 bed nights hosted through Family Promise
400+ gifts given at MentorKids USA Christmas Party
100k+ meals for Malawian orphans through Ministry of Hope
628 attended Simply Sandi: Sandi Patty in Concert
300 attended An Afternoon with Rodgers & Hammerstein
450+ attended A Christmas Miracle: The Christmas Truce
CHILDREN
1082 attended Trunk or Treat
240 kids attended Scuba: VBS2024
12 3rd Grade Bibles presented
12 5th graders transitioned to Student Ministry
WOMEN 85
women attended the Women’s Retreat
50+
moms attended the MOMS@ VPC launch
MEN
2k+ bags thrown at the annual Men’s Cornhole Tournament
1k+ hours studying scripture at the Men’s Bible Study
VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION
143 Legacy Society members
$216k distributed to VPC mission & ministry
$6.1M VPF fund balance at the end of 2024
DAVID JOYNT Senior Pastor
This Annual Report is like what the State of the Union was originally meant to be. Did you know the State of the Union speech was intended to be a moment of unity and accountability? Legislators and Justices gathering to hear the President review the previous year and highlight the coming one. Over time, however, it has evolved into an exercise in self-congratulation, a piece of partisan political theater.
The 2024 Annual Report aims to capture the truth of God’s work in all areas of our life together, in order to glorify the One we love and serve. Our unity is built not on political alliances but on our common faith and unity of mission.
I am deeply grateful for 2024. Grateful for talented colleagues on our team and their inspiring work. Grateful for 11 straight years in the black due to the generosity and faithfulness of our precious members. Grateful for Travis Kingma, to whom we bid farewell, for his service as a worship leader and next generation leader. We feel the impact of his efforts in the interns who became disciples under his care. I am grateful for Kay Randolph, stepping in to lead the Chancel Choir while Jennifer Hamm is on leave. I am grateful for our Safety Team's efforts to make our spaces and events more secure. And I am so very grateful our campus welcomed more visitors than ever before at services and at Awaken Café.
For every reason to be grateful for 2024 there are just as many reasons for excitement in 2025. This year we will live into our new identity within ECO, a denomination led by its churches. We will launch new initiatives in Congregational Care, Discipleship, Outreach, and Mission. As you read this report, I pray you find your own reasons for gratitude and excitement. May 2025 be a very special year for you and for the VPC community.
DAVID TURNER
Congregational Care Pastor
Ministry has its rewards. Seeing people grow in those teachable moments of life—whether it be at a wedding or a memorial service—is inspiring. Spending time at the bedside of someone you love and listening to their story as life slips away, or gathering with a group of people seeking God’s presence in prayer—in those moments you feel the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. These experiences and many others are opportunities to discover “God sightings” if only we step out beyond our comfort in obedience to God’s gentle nudges in our life.
Amid those amazing ministry moments where you’re so grateful that God has called you to serve as a Pastor there are also challenging and discouraging moments we usually don’t highlight in ministry reports. In this past year, I had my share of both the highs and lows of ministry, but the lows have been unusual. In 2024 the Deacons dealt with six resignations: four for health reasons, one for personal reasons, and another due to an unexpected death. Losing these six dedicated servants may not sound like a lot, but the reality of ministry is that every person is valuable; every person has a role and a place in the building of God’s kingdom. When one person is missing or one person is not living into their calling in ministry—the ministry suffers and the kingdom building is diminished in its effectiveness.
As you read through this report, know that the Congregational Care Ministry's success is because of the dedicated volunteers, Deacons, and Elders. They give beyond what is asked with their time, talents, and treasures—often without recognition.
I tell you the truth, whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.
-Matthew 25:40
CHRIS WOODARD
Outreach
& Discipleship Pastor
I have reached a new level of dad joy: Lego. It is so fun to wake up early with my four year old, sip on a cup of coffee and watch him engage with Lego. He uses his tiny hands, a book of instructions and brick by brick is able to make something quite impressive. Okay, truth be told, he is only at the tiny car phase of building, but I think it is impressive.
Watching Max play with Lego reminds me of our church community. We Jesus followers are individually adding our bricks. We are faithfully following a book of instruction that is God’s Holy Word. As our bricks are being built up in community the Church comes to life.
As I look back on this past year, I am so thankful for you, the people of VPC. The way you care for and encourage each other, the way you step outside of yourself to serve your neighbor, and the way you express your faith in worship is simply impressive. Sometimes we can only see our brick, but I know with confidence, that our heavenly father is watching over us, looking over at what our church creates and calls it good.
VPC, I am excited to see what God builds in our community in 2025 and thank you for adding your brick.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
-Romans 8:28
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