Updates

At our annual Thanksgiving 1+1+1 Food Giveaway, we served over 35 families. During this time, we also kicked off ADVANCE Halftime, celebrating the one-year anniversary of when we began our ADVANCE initiative.

Two hurricanes hitting our area within twelve days have delayed some of the bids forecasted to have been completed by this date; however, the Right of Way (ROW) Permit has been approved – Praise the Lord!!  Watch this video to see how our church sprung into action to help during this hurricane season and to see the latest update on permit status. 

As of this month, our property site permit was approved by Pasco County!  We rejoice in yet another milestone reached.  Bids are underway with contractors for the coming work.  Still pending though is a secondary Right of Way (ROW) Permit that will enable us to accomplish necessary work alongside Ridge Road.  We are praying for this to be realized next month.   

Pastor Todd addresses the church as we approach the one-year anniversary of the Advance Initiative.  Coming next month we will review progress, celebrate progress, and look ahead to what is next. 

While development plans remain in motion, our ministry Advances. We saw over 200 children in attendance during VBS 2024, with 11 salvations!

On this month, our church submitted an updated site development permit with Pasco County.  In this video update, Pastor Todd updates the church on current progress and also shares his and Angela’s own personal journey through ADVANCE. 

Our church is continuing to ADVANCE through ministry, outreach, and campus expansion efforts.  Watch the video and read letter to learn more.

In April we celebrated our 53rd church anniversary with 22 people Advancing in their relationship with Christ through believers baptism.

In March we were able to remove two houses from our property.  This demolition is exciting for us as it enables us to continue making room for a future parking lot and further campus expansion plans!

We are only a few months into our initiative.  Already we are seeing progress as our church ADVANCES.  Watch the video and read the update letter to learn more of what has transpired during the first quarter of ADVANCE. 

As promised, we doubled our mission support funds to all of our missionary partners.  These funds have been released enabling us to serve missionary endeavors all over the world helping serve villages like this one.

Dr. David Nelms, President of The Timothy Initiative, gives an update on the $10,000 they received from our church which went directly to start 25 churches in Togo, Africa.  This is part of the large goal of planting 400 new churches through ACHIEVE (a church in every village, everywhere). 

Our initiative began on the first Sunday of November.  This was an incredible moment as our church stepped forward with the largest one-week offering we have ever received.  The total for this one-day offering was $196,000 (six times the typical Sunday offering total). 

We asked the church to commit and trust God financially by turning in their Advance Commitment Cards.

Pastor Todd unveils the Vision of Advance to the church and asks them to start praying on what God would have them do to Move Faith Forward.