IT’S GO TIME!
COMMIT TO CHRIST CHURCH FOR 2025
COMMITMENT SUNDAY: NOVEMBER 17, 2024 AT BOTH SERVICES
OUR COMMUNITY
Christ Church is a community centered in love of God and neighbor, unconditional welcome and generosity. Throughout the years Christ Church has been a safe haven for all those who seek after the heart of God, while providing both financial and sweat equity for needful persons and communities.
It’s Go Time
In Mark 13:1-9, Jesus urges His disciples to blepete—a Greek word evoking readiness and bold anticipation, like a runner poised to spring. Inspired by this, Christ Church’s Stewardship Team has chosen "It’s Go Time!" as this year’s Commitment Sunday theme on November 17. This annual celebration invites members to prayerfully consider their financial commitment for 2025, embracing a dynamic blepete to support our church’s expanding ministries: growing hospitality efforts, new additions to children & youth ministry, outreach initiatives, staff diversity, and deeper partnerships. With prayer, discernment, and generosity, members are encouraged to join in this year’s “GO,” supporting Christ Church’s vibrant mission in the coming year.
IN 2025 . . .
In 2025, we want to be the kind of church community in which expectant generosity is the norm and not the exception. We know that God is preparing and equipping us for expansive, creative, and transformative ministry in 2025. Through the practice of expectant generosity, we have the wherewithal to realize our full potential in the ministry of providing outstanding programing, compassionate and high-impact service to the community, and funding new initiatives that help to welcome and mobilize the next generation of disciples.
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION
Through a weekly, monthly or annual donation to Christ Church in 2025, you will fund:
EXCELLENT
WORSHIP
a continued devotion to Dynamic Preaching. Elevating Music. Engaging Liturgy
EXPANDED CHILDREN
& FAMILIES
a broadened ministry with children and families to include new youth ministry initiatives
the expansion of our hospitality ministries, including a reconceptualized Coffee Hour and the continued stipending of our new Coordinator of Hospitality
A WIDER
WELCOME
A CONTINUED
COMMITMENT
TO DIVERSITY
staff expansion to include the addition of a pastor who will both strengthen our staff’s witness for racial diversity and fortify our church’s ministry of outreach and congregational care
A
MISSIONAL
MINDSET
new initiatives in missional outreach, including the revitalization of Sharing Table; an intensified strategic relationship with the Methodist Home; an expanded investment in our partnership with the church in Colombia; and a developing plan to support and nurture our Washington Heights campus and Nido de Esperanza as our church moves steadily toward decisions about the Washington Heights property