Go Forward Fund This Sunday
A final reminder that this Sunday is our GFF collection Sunday! Please take the time to think through and pray how you’d like to joyfully and generously give this year!
Here are the areas we are planning to support:
BUILDING LOCALLY
VENUE FUND
As we seek to be a faithful gospel presence in our city it is on our heart to be a local church with a local home. We want to have a ‘place’ in our city that we can use as a facility to facilitate works of ministry. And to that end we are seeking to go above and beyond our current venue costs to find our own 24/7 location that can be used for Sunday gatherings, lunches, training, mission, offices, community events etc.
FUTURE LEADERS
It is one of our great hopes and needs as a young church plant to invest in, raise up, and train future leaders within our church, and even to be looking out to how we can be sending men out for future church plants. In order to do this, we need to be setting aside finances to cover wages, education, fellowship experiences (like SG Pastors Conference) so that we raise up the next generation of not just ‘leaders’, but Sovereign Grace Leaders that share our vision and values. A portion of this fund will be used to fund Richard Song’s Pastoral Internship as well as provide opportunities as needs arise in the future.
CARING REGIONALLY
INTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES (ICM)
The Philippines is the 12th most populated country in the world with a total population of 108 million. 23 million people in the Philippines (21%) live in poverty on less than $1.22 (US) per day. Approximately 8 million Filipinos (9%) live in ultra poverty on less that $0.50 (US) a day. These are the people that ICM helps, those who do not have enough food to feed their families, adequate shelter and can’t afford medicine for their sick children.
It has been an absolute pleasure to partner with ICM over the last few years. Through our giving over the years well over 6250 people, in 25 different communities, have been able to get fed and cared for through the Transform Program, and over 80 local pastors, educated and cared for through the Thrive Program. God willing we’d really like to partner with ICM again in 2021, with an ongoing heart to care for the poor and needy in our part of the world.
HELPING GLOBALLY
SGC GLOBAL MISSIONS
Sovereign Grace Churches are our family of Churches. A family who partner together to advance the gospel in Jesus Christ, seeking to fulfil our mission by planting and strengthening churches, training pastors, producing gospel- centered resources, and engaging in missions throughout the world. We’re presently enjoying playing our part in gospel work in over 32 different countries. It’s a big world out there and we’re definitely thrilled to play our part! And yet in all truth we have more gospel opportunities than we have the ability to fund. That’s why we want to once again give to global mission in our family of churches. We exist in Australia because of the generous giving of others, and in global mission, we now have the ongoing opportunity to play our part in the story of others, to the glory of God.
OPEN DOORS
Since 1955, Open Doors has been a gospel-advancing ministry, helping the Church remain in some of the most difficult places on the planet to be a Christian. Open Doors continues to achieve this through discipleship, emergency relief and community development in over
70 countries. Open Doors believes persecution exists wherever the gospel is shared, but as a ministry they do not exist to end persecution or even prevent it from growing. They exist to give people the strength to stand in the face of persecution and shine as brightly as they can for Jesus.