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Uganda Clean Water Well!

We are helping fund the creation and installation of a well with our partners in Uganda to provide a renewable local water source to help sustain the life of the community. We have installed the well, and now we are raising money to help fund a fence to help organize the access to the water and also to provide a plumbing infrastructer to provide water to the whole community.

Mission Resources

Reformed Church in America (RCA) Multiplication Team –

One of our partners is an organization to which we belong that provides training, finances and other support to work toward a goal of planting 400 new churches in the U.S. by the year 2014. We are part of their goal and are excited to work with our friends in expanding the Kingdom through church planting as they did in the early church (found all throughout the New Testament).

Portage Prayer Clinic Prayer -

This is what keeps us connected to the movement of God’s Spirit so that we can partner with Him in the right places and in the right time. The power of missions is in prayer. The prayer clinic is currently open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10-1. This clinic is a helpful resource for those seeking physical or emotional healing or wishing to bring praise and celebration of goodness in their lives. All are welcome and safe.

Part of this continuing renovation of the building and grounds has been made possible through a generous and quality organization called: CGF – Church Growth Fund – that helps church organizations use their buildings and grounds to reach their community more effectively.  

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“They will know you are my disciples if you love one another.” (John 13:35)  


This is a fairly simple command, spoken in an Eastern culture when Jesus lived on the earth.  In Jesus’ culture, knowing was consistent with action.  People would know that you knew something by the way you lived your life.  Action comes out of knowing.  If we know Jesus we will obey him and continue the mission He received from His Father.   

As his talmidim (disciples) we work to complete the task He entrusted to us in the power of the Holy Spirit he gave to us, so that all people may know Him.

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LOCAL

Feed my Neighbor – The goal is to bring food and friendship over a period of 16 weeks to struggling families that have been selected through the school systems. We are always collecting food at our 7200 Angling Road location to disburse to these families. 

 

Community Garden – We had a great first season. We provided over 700 cucumbers, 30, five gallon buckets of beans and lots of other vegetables to families and the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission. The soil will rest for the winter and we will be back in the dirt next spring. We hope you join us.

 

CFC – Christ Followers for Change –

It is a joy to work together with this collection of churches in the Greater Kalamazoo area. We can do more together than we could separately. The goal is to make an impact toward alleviating systemic poverty locally and on the continent of Africa. We are working at the root causes of this epidemic as we unify against: racism, war, AIDS or a multiplex of other factors, while at the same time bring immediate relief to those directly experiencing the challenges of poverty.

"7200 Campus” and “Outback Sports Complex” -

The building and campus on which we reside is owned by the bridge. We are also renters. We see the building as a tool that is to be used and accessible to the community at large; a location where multiple ministries, organizations and businesses reside to bring goodness and creativity back to our neighborhood and world.

We currently have two schools that meet at the bridge and we’re open for others to use this facility and grounds for non-church related events. Having created the “Outback Sports Complex” by putting in a regulation sized soccer/lacrosse field and softball diamond, we eagerly anticipate other ways the community will enjoy this campus.

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

Good News Ministries (Pastor Solomon Mwesige) - Our partner near Kampala, Uganda is Pastor Solomon Mwesige. We are involved with projects such as a recently built school, clean water, and a chicken farm. The goal is to create long-term, sustainable means of income and provision – both physically and spiritually - for these desperate communities in Africa.

Providence Church in Monrovia, Liberia (Pastor Sam Reeves) - Our partner in Monrovia, Liberia is Pastor Sam Reeves. Pastor Sam returned to Liberia after fleeing from the civil war that ripped apart this nation for many years. This building where this church meets is literally the place where the nation signed its declaration of independence in 1847. The civil wars from 1989-1996 and 1999-2003 have left this country without infrastructure and with a staggering unemployment rate of over 85%. We are partnering with the ministries led by Pastor Sam and others in Liberia to create economic and social stability through micro-finance on a spiritual foundation.