Christmas Missions
What group(s) of people would you like to see helped in our region, nation and world? Thinking about the challenges of others and how we can assist them motivates us to want to do something to help the hurting people around us and throughout our world. When I think about helping hurting people, I think about helping people:
- Locally - by ministering to children, teens and parents in underserved communities
- Locally - by helping people experiencing the real downside of life (like homelessness)
- Nationally - by helping start Churches in regions that have few Churches
- In Jamaica and Haiti - who are trying to recover from the tragedies of Hurricane Melissa
- In Nations around the world where people have not heard about Jesus
As you begin to think about the group or groups of people that you would like to see helped, I also want to ask you to begin thinking and praying about what you can give this year, over and above your regular Church offering to our 2025 CHRISTMAS MISSIONS offering. This annual offering goes directly to support missionaries and missions ministries that we are well connected with at Celebration, and to support missions projects as well.
Through this year’s offering, we hope to:
- LOCAL MINISTRIES - Giving Hope NOLA (food for the needy), Love Your Neighbor NOLA (ministry to children and families in N.O. East), our Life Transformation Community Center (ministry to children and families in Hollygrove/Dixon), Urban Impact (ministry to children and families in Central City), Serve Day projects in 2026, and Benevolence funding (for the elderly and disadvantaged in our region).
- NATIONAL MISSIONS - Starting several new Churches in Louisiana and other U.S. states, and the support of 2500+ North American Mission Board Missionaries.
- INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS - Hurricane relief for Jamaica, Solar Bibles to people in rural areas of Africa, building homes in Guatemala, training 800+ International Pastors, assistance for Celebration members going on International Mission Trips, 3500+ International Mission Board missionaries and independent missionaries who are bringing the message and ministry of Jesus to a variety of countries around the world (sometimes in very hostile environments).
HOW TO GIVE
If everyone in our church would give to our Christmas Missions Offering the equivalent of what they spend on a family member at Christmas, we would be able to complete all of these projects. So, please be praying about how the Lord wants you to give this year. We’ll begin receiving this offering tomorrow at celebrationchurch.org/give and all of the weekends through the end of the year. Thanks for being a Church family who cares about helping the hurting and sharing the gospel around the world.
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A letter from Pastor Dennis.
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A letter from Pastor Dennis.