"SENT OUT" GENEROSITY INITIATIVE: March 2022 - November 2025
TOTAL PLEDGE GOAL OVER 44 MONTHS: $1,400,000
Yearly Budget: approximately $250,000 per year (first $1 million)
- Raised $1.1 million for budget.
New Generosity: $400,000
- Raised $250,000 for sent out.
Pieces of the $400,000 campaign
- Parking Lot & Facility Upgrades- $52,000
- Church Plant to South Carolina - $27,000
- Outreach to our Cities - $70,000
- Church Plant to Wellington - $8,000 in 2024
- Mortgage - still need approximately $200,000
- Urbana Vineyard - still need approximately $30,000
Generosity starts March 2022
- Parking lot construction STARTED Summer 2022
- Parking lot PAID OFF ($25,433) August 28, 2022
- First MILESTONE $200,000 passed September 25, 2022
- All 236 TURKEYS paid for Thanksgiving 2022
- Met total BUDGET goal for 2022!
2023
- Passed $400,000 in total giving APRIL 2023
- Completed our CHURCH PLANTING goal by MAY 2023 ($26,800)
- Began paying extra to the Urbana Vineyard MAY 2023
- July 1, 2023
- Paid off OVER $50,000 in debt so far!
- Officially passed $500,000 in Sent Out Giving!
- August - Launched a new internship program to raise up more leaders and church planters.
- October 15, 2023
- Bloomington-Normal schools REQUESTED 330 boxes for our Thanksgiving Outreach.
- Officially passed $600,000 in Sent Out Giving.
- November 2023
- over $7,000 given to help purchase turkeys
- over $18,000 given to help with a pylon sign on the I-55 / I-74 highway
2024
- January - WE'VE REACHED THE 1/2 WAY POINT TOWARDS OUR GOAL!! $700,000 has now been raised.
- APRIL - officially passed $800,000 in Sent Out Giving
- SUMMER - announcing a new missions focus
- Sending the RUDZINSKIS to South Africa
- Sending the PRICES to Guadalajara, Mexico
- SEPTEMBER
- Launched a second year of our internnship program
- passed $900,000 in total Giving!
- Schools & non-profits requesting 350 boxes for Thanksgiving.
- DECEMBER
- Delivered food to 1,000 people in our cities.
- Ordained and Sent Out our church planters to Wellington, South Africa (raised over $8,000 for them this Fall).
- passed $1,000,000 in total GIVING for Sent Out.
- passed 120 baptisms as a church family.
2025
- JANUARY: Took our largest group of students ever to our Winter Retreat.
- FEBRUARY: Celebrated our 1,000th public Worship Service and 9 Years as a church!
- MARCH: Passed 1,100,000 in total GIVING... PLUS we passed 125 baptisms as a church family!
- MAY: we celebrated our first ever DAY OF HOPE that saw 400-500 guests come and be served by our 100+ volunteer team. We gave away free lunch, free diapers & wipes, free groceries, free clothing and more. Plus, 20 community organizations came and distributed information and help.
- SUMMER: passed 140 baptisms as a church & passed $1,200,000 in total giving.
- Our new in 2024 Nursing Home Campus began its first ever ALPHA program that is reaching 15-20 people each Thursday.
- FALL: delivered 370 Thanksgiving Boxes to over 1,000 people.
- FALL: officially passed $1.4 million.
- FALL: passed 150 baptisms as a church.
- Raised $20,000 for both local & global missions initiatives.
Generosity Initiative concludes November 2025
