For over 45 years our church has collected a special offering during the Thanksgiving season. Originally, it was used to help the church pay off existing debt. Once the debt was paid off the church decided to use the offering to help bless people locally, nationally, and globally. In past years, we've helped orphans in Africa, helped build churches in Latin America and provide mental health counseling services to local schools.
This year's Thanksgiving Offering recipients will be...
Plant Indy unites like-minded churches in Indianapolis to help plant new churches and revitalize dying congregations.
We hope to give $5,000 to plant churches in Lebanon and Whitestown. You can read more here.
Trailview Church, formerly Lebanon Bible Baptist Church, is a local church in Lebanon, IN we started working with a few years ago. We have helped in many ways already with work days, cleaning, signage, and sending some of our own. Now, we will be taking these funds to help pave their parking lot. This will add tremendous curb appeal and be a great enhancement as they bring new people to their church! Lots of exciting things happening with Trailview!
If you want to read more about Trailview, click here.
The JOY Project is a newly birthed idea to serve widows/single moms in our community. The goal is we would gather project requests and ideas over the next several months and then in the summer of 2025, we'd set aside an entire week devoted to getting these projects done!
We will set aside $3,000 to assist in these projects and pay for supplies if needed.
We've partnered with Danville Schools for a few years now to provide local mental health counseling. We see a great need to continue this partnership and help the students in our community get the help they need.
We plan to give $2,500 to this fund to keep it going.
A few years ago, Rich & Cherry Smith (our supported Missionaries in Guatemala) started learning more about a huge issue in the area of orphan care. Specifically, the need to disciple/mentor those in their teen years living within systems of protection, especially those who then ‘age out ‘at the age of 18.
Most of the time, these kids have nearly no resources, nowhere to go & no one to go to. This vulnerability puts these kids in extremely high-risk situations.
So Rich & Cherry started praying...praying for funds for a piece of land, for funds needed to build a Training Center as well as a Transition Home and staff to help with all of it. They have started building this home and we get to sponsor one whole room and associated spaces!
We plan to give them $30,000 towards the funds needed for this room and spaces in the Transition Home!
Read more about their project here.
Cookson Hills is a children’s home in Northeast Oklahoma, serving kids ages 5-17 who want to write a better story for their lives and have experienced challenges with family life, homelessness, poor peer relationships, abuse, or neglect. Compelled by the love of Christ, their team works together to fulfill their vision – to raise up healthy individuals who are empowered to positively impact future generations.
We plan to give $5,000 to the home as they support these kids in need.
Learn more here.
We support several missionaries in the Middle East. They all help strengthen and start churches. One new church is starting with an indigenous pastor. Our missionaries are helping to establish a building for this church to meet in.
Our gift of $4,000 will go towards their church building.
Our loan amount for the 12,000 sq. ft. addition, expanded parking lot, updated sanitation and new elevator is now down to $251,362.27! Any amount of money given to the 2024 Thanksgiving Offering after we’ve paid all the other commitments will go to lowering the principal amount on the loan.
We hope to give $30,000 towards this loan balance!