Christ Presbyterian Church, PCA, Nashville, TN

2010 Kingdom Building Projects Commitment Cards are due Anatoly Kaluzhny - Sermon PDF

GLOBAL PROJECTS
Frontier Missions - Reaching the Unreached

Church planting in Sri Lanka 8,000
This project is connected with MTW’s new India/Sri Lanka Partnership which is directed by Cartee Bales, an MTW missionary supported by CPC. The project will support church planting in Sri Lanka, a Buddhist country coming out of a brutal civil war which has experienced Christian revival and strong evangelical growth since 1980.

Outreach to the Purépecha People, Mexico 8,000
This project was proposed by Kenton Wood, a CPC-supported MTW missionary in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the nearby state of Michoacan, there are many ethnic groups, among them the Purépecha people who number about 200,000 and are completely unevangelized. The target of this project is the village of Tarecuato in which live about 9,000 Indians. These people need everything – medical care, education, marriage and family training because of so many dysfunctional families. The project will support the completion of a facility for teaching, training and evangelizing these people.

Outreach into the Muslim World from Ukraine 15,000
This project is designed to deepen our partnership with Anatoly Kaluzhny’s New Life Church in Kiev. This church has already sent missionaries into Turkey and established churches there. Their new vision is to bring the Gospel into the “Stans”, the five Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. This will be the beginning of a multi-year effort to support this vision.
II. Support to Our
Missionaries In the Field

Jacob’s Farm (Belize, Belize Project, MTW) 20,000
Jacob’s Farm is a rehabilitation center for alcoholics and drug addicts
in northern Belize. The center was begun by the men at the MTW-supported Presbyterian Church in Patchakan Village. Alcoholism and drug abuse are huge problems in Belizean society, and the government of Belize is looking to Jacob’s Farm as their model for rehabilitation. This project will fund the construction of living facilities and a water delivery system for new residents. The construction will be accomplished by men on the farm, along with local construction people and teams of
volunteers from the states.

Khayelitsha Creche Project (Capetown, South Africa) 20,000
The ministry of African Leadership in South Africa is based in Khayelitsha where it has many strong relationships and connections in the local community. A key tool which African Leadership uses to partner with the community is the crèche. These basic multipurpose buildings are built by African Leadership for the community with the community. They are multi-purpose ministry centers that serve many purposes: they are nurseries during the week where parents have a safe place to leave their children, become “Saturday churches” for children, and serve as churches for adults on Sunday as well. The cost of this project will fund the construction of a crèche in Khayelitsha and two years of feeding children.

Dental Ministry for Orphans in Odessa, Ukraine 4,170
This is a ministry of Paul and Tetyana Becker in Odessa. The Beckers are supported by CPC. Seven years ago, the Beckers built and furnished a dental suite for the orphans of Internot #4 (a boarding school and orphanage) and the street children of Odessa. The suite has operated non stop since that time. By providing this benefit to the children, the Beckers have been able to show Christ’s love for them in a very real manner. However, due to the current financial climate, the Beckers lack the funds to continue financing the operation of this facility. This project will fund this ministry for another year.

Equipping a Church Plant in Guadalajara, Mexico 6,000
This project is for a new church being planted by Steve and Amy Robertson, CPC supported missionaries connected with MTW’s church planting initiative in Guadalajara. The new church building has several needs (chairs, tables, cabinets, sound system, projector, instruments, etc). Being able to equip the building will enhance the Robertson’s ministry and enable them to offer quality ministry right from the beginning.

Van for Monterrey, Mexico Team 15,000
This project was submitted by Carol Oban, our missionary in Monterrey who is a member of MTW’s church planting team there. The Monterrey Team had one of their two donated vans stolen last year. The team needs a replacement because the vehicle was used in many aspects of the ministry. The benefits to the team and ministry are enormous as vehicles of this capacity (14-15 passengers) are very costly to rent and having it facilitates many more activities than the team might otherwise be able to support. The project cost would include purchasing the vehicle, and required maintenance, custom duty and first insurance. Continuing maintenance and further insurance would be supported by minimal charges the short-term teams pay to use the van.

Orphanage Playground, Honduras 5,600
This project is focused on an uncompleted playground which is connected with La Providencia, a CPC-supported ministry to orphans in Aguas del Padre, Honduras. The playground will serve La Prodencia’s children’s home, the 48 community children and families in their school, the ministry’s staff and families, and those living in the surrounding village. To complete the playground, which serves children, staff, and local communities, bench swings, picnic tables, grills, a safety fence, and lights for safe night-time play are needed.

Pastoral Training
Pastoral training will be one of the greatest continuing needs in the Majority World in the coming decades. This is because of a truly wonderful thing that is happening. The Church is growing at an astounding pace in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia. In fact, by the year 2050, more than half of the world’s Christians will live in Latin America and Africa. The problem is that church leaders in these regions have very little opportunity to learn the Scriptures and sound theology. Where the church is growing most rapidly, there is the least opportunity for adequate pastoral education.

Third Millennium Ministries 5,000
Third Millennium seeks to address this problem by utilizing modern technology and teaching devices to bring advanced Christian education to underprivileged nations. Third Millennium Ministry’s curriculum is designed to provide accreditable seminary-level courses for the training of indigenous pastors in their native languages. It is currently distributed in North, Central and South America; Asia; Europe; Africa, Australia; and the Middle East. Materials are directly provided to end-users at no charge. Production and distribution are funded primarily by donations from churches, foundations, business and individuals.

African Leadership’s Bible Project 10,000
A major thrust of African Leadership’s ministry is training pastors. Currently, the ministry trains about 10,000 pastors and church leaders in 22 countries and has over 50 projects in seven countries. The two countries with the most students are Ethiopia and Malawi. In these countries there are over 1,000 pastors in training. This project would provide NIV Study Bibles for 500 pastors to use during their training in African Leadership’s two year, 10 course, 500+ hour training program. This is an essential training tool for these pastors, as well as an invaluable resource they will use in their pastoral ministry.
IV. Mercy and Disaster Relief

Danita’s Children Orphanage, Haiti 5,000
Our church community has a personal link to Haiti. CPA alumna
Karris Hudson ’98 works at Danita’s Children, an orphanage in Haiti that is located near the Dominican Republic
border. While they felt the recent earthquake, thankfully it did not harm their facilities. However, they have already started taking in new orphans from Port-au-Prince and are anticipating more. Money is needed so they can buy
extra food, diapers, beds, towels, and clothing as more orphans arrive.

Continuing Haitian Relief and Rebuilding Needs 10,000
Over the next several months, the effort in Haiti will transition from first responders to long-term response. These funds will be set aside for initiatives from our Presbytery as well as for MTW’s Disaster Response Ministry.

Radooga International’s Ministry to Ukraine’s Orphans 7,500
Radooga International’s vision is to transform the nation of Ukraine by strengthening the church. Radooga knows that the future of this nation, and the future of the church, lies with the 7,000,000 youth of Ukraine. Of these, there are 100,000 to 120,000 orphans and their future is bleak. Radooga seeks to impact these children through a summer boot camp ministry that hopes to see these young people transformed by the Gospel and develop into future leaders of their country.

Mobilization

Short Term Mission Scholarship Fund 5,000
It is the desire of the Outreach Ministry Team that many at Christ Presbyterian grow in their faith by becoming “World Christians” – a people who have a compassion for the lost and a passion for entering into what God is doing to advance His kingdom in this world. One way this can happen is through Christ Presbyterian’s short-term mission trips. In 2010, we are planning many trips that are designed for families, youth, men, and women. This fund will provide some financial support for those who are qualified and have a strong desire to go on a particular trip but lack the resources to do so.

LOCAL PROJECTS

Summer School for Somali Bantu 9,000
This is a trial project of Refugee Hope to provide certified teachers in a four week summer school format at CPC to 20 children from the Somali Bantu community. Many of these children are falling behind in their school work due to poor learning environments in Metro Nashville schools and they lack support during the school year. We believe that this targeted educational project will provide the educational and emotional support these children need to reach their potential. The students will be selected on the basis of their learning desire and academic need. Like Salama’s Summer of Champions run at CPC in previous years, this project will provide opportunities for CPC members to be engaged with the children in the classrooms.

Nashville Presbytery Church Planting Network 5,000
We believe that the most effective way to advance the Kingdom through a city and a region is to plant new churches. Yet, committees and sessions don’t do very good jobs at planting churches. A proven way is to form a network of churches that have a common vision for planting churches throughout a region. More than ten such networks have been established within the PCA, and the Nashville Presbytery has just formed one with a ten year goal of doubling the number of reformed churches within its geographic boundaries. Christ Presbyterian has joined this network and the $5,000 contribution will go towards the network’s initial start-up costs.

Homeless Mothers and Children Facility 15,000
Christ Presbyterian has recently become involved in ministering to Nashville’s homeless through our choir’s outreach to Tent City residents and homeless mothers at the Rescue Mission. This project will take these ministries a step further. A building on Murfreesboro Road is being upgraded by Shalom Ministries to provide approximately 40 single family rental units for the exclusive use of previously homeless single mothers and their children. Our part of this project would be to provide the interior finish and furnish a fellowship room with tables, chairs and bookcases. This space would be used for relationship building by CPC members who would also be engaged in life and job skills training and reading to the children.

TESL Language School Scholarships 4,400
This project is a continuation of a very successful program we funded last year. The scholarships pay for ESL teaching and certification which allows the Christian recipients to build relationships and spread the Gospel through language instruction here in Nashville. The scholarships are need based up to the full cost of the class. Prospective recipients make application to the Home Missions Committee. The training is conducted by the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI) which is recognized globally as a provider of teacher certification in this field.

The Next Door/ Job Skills Equipment 7,500
Men of Valor/ Job Skills Equipment 7,500
Both of these ministries have been successful places for our members to engage in building relationships and demonstrating the power of Jesus Christ to redeem many men and women whom society views as unredeemable. This project is targeted to provide equipment to facilitate life and jobs skill training. The funds will be spent as directed by each organization to supplement existing infrastructure to bring training equipment up to date with that used by potential employers.

Medical Supplies for Siloam Clinic 5,000
The Dispensary of Hope organization provides non-generic drugs to clinics like Siloam generally for 10% of their regular price. These are critical drugs for some patients who do not respond well to generic drugs. This funding will pay for a special program which will provide these non-generic drugs to Siloam, filling the clinic’s need for a full year.

2010 PROJECTS Q & A’s

1. Is this something new?
No. Since 1989, Christ Presbyterian has had two income streams to finance its local and global outreach ministry: a percentage of the General Fund (historically about 15%), and an annual stewardship campaign. The General Fund has financed the living expenses of our missionaries in the field, local ministries and partnerships (Salama, Siloam Clinic, Hope Clinic), campus ministries (RUF at Vanderbilt, MTSU, Belmont) , and institutions (seminaries, our local presbytery). The annual missions stewardship campaign has focused largely on projects.

2. How were these projects selected?
In January, the Outreach Ministry Team requested project proposals from our missionaries in the field, as well as from our local and global partnerships. Our World and Home Committees then reviewed these proposals and selected the ones listed in this booklet. The selection criteria included cost (under $30,000), time to completion (1 to 2 years), type of project, and its strategic importance.

3. Can CPC members and Ministry Teams propose Kingdom Building Projects?
Yes. Project proposals may be submitted to Diane Baker, our Assistant Director of Outreach.

4. How will these projects be funded?
A special Projects Committee, chaired by Tom Ellsworth, will manage the funding of these projects. This committee will be responsible for prioritizing the projects for funding; devising a spending plan as gifts are received; and reporting the progress of the funding campaign to OMT committees as well as to CPC staff, the Governing Council and the congregation.

5. What is the time period for giving?
The campaign for funding these projects will run for nine months, from our March Missions Conference through the end of our Season of Blessing in November. You can give to the Kingdom Building Project Fund at any time during this period.

6. Can I designate my gift to a particular project?
No. The Projects Committee will determine the sequence of project funding.

7. How can I find out if a particular project I’m interested in has been funded?
There will be regular reporting to the congregation via The Weekly @CPC, the quarterly News and “Missions Minutes” during the worship service. Additionally, the Outreach Ministry page of the CPC website will include progress reports.

8. Please explain the commitment card:
“This promise is not necessarily dependent upon personally known or anticipated sources. Instead, it is a good-faith agreement between me as an individual believer and my God.”

Your commitment is not a pledge to the church. It is a promise you make to the Lord out of a desire you have to give to local and global missions.

You can act on that promise in one of two ways. The Lord may prompt you to immediately give from financial resources you already have but were intending for other purposes. In that case, you can write a check to Christ Presbyterian Church and indicate Kingdom Building Projects in the memo line.

However, you may have a desire to give $5,000 but lack the financial resources to do so. In this case, your promise becomes a Faith Promise that if the Lord provides you with $5,000 between now and next November, you will give that $5,000 to Kingdom Building Projects. A Faith Promise commitment can be an exciting adventure in faith as you experience how God’s grace can provide you with resources to give through you to His Kingdom work. Here are a few examples:

The grace of reordering priorities. Through God’s grace of discipline, you may be enabled to give beyond your tithes and offerings by reordering your personal budget expenditures. You decide to go without something you have budgeted for the sake of advancing God’s Kingdom.

The grace of a new opportunity. God’s grace can enable you to give by enabling you to use your talents to produce additional financial resources.

The grace of an unexpected provision. Sometimes God’s grace is displayed in unexpected ways. Your desire to give a particular amount may be satisfied through an insurance settlement, someone paying back a loan made many years ago and forgotten, an unexpected inheritance or bonus at work.

For more information please contact Diane Baker at 301-3581 or dbaker@christpres.org.