Advent Giving 2022
We believe cultivating an annual rhythm of sacrificial giving during our culture's most excessive season speaks to both us and our community as followers of Jesus.
We hope to raise a total of $25,500 in the month of December.
With that goal met we will not only fulfill our congregation’s monthly budget but also give away $10,000 ($3,000 to Local Initiatives, $2,000 to a Global Initiative, and $5,000 towards Church Planting) to our campaign recipients.
Below are our Advent Giving Campaign recipients for 2022.
Please give to the "General Fund" on our Giving platform when you are ready.
LOCAL INITIATIVE
The Mission of Yahweh (Spring Branch)
The Mission of Yahweh is a faith-based women and children's home that empowers, enriches and restores the lives of homeless women and children, and provides outreach services to communities in need, since 1961.
Vision: Restore Hope, Transform Lives, End Homelessness
Goal: The Mission of Yahweh plans to build a new dormitory on land that was acquired 8 years ago. Once completed their daily resident count will increase from 120 to 160 women and children residents.
Lokey Family (Spring Branch)
The Lokey family are covenant members whose son was hospitalized for 2 weeks due to a seizure. We hope to provide funds to help ease the financial burden of the hospital stay, missed work, and future rehabilitation costs.
Sims Family (Spring Branch)
The Sims family consists of a grandmother and six granddaughters which Sojourn Spring Branch has begun to serve. They are in need of reliable transportation and we hope to provide towards that need.
GLOBAL INITIATIVE
The Lighthouse Camp - Albania
The Lighthouse Camp is a ministry of Cru (the name of Campus Crusade for Christ International) that has hosted dozens of summer camps for the past four years, utilizing summer projects to reach out to high school students and discipleship camps to help them grow in their faith. They bring the students they have met along with the new believers to The Lighthouse campground to share the gospel, to teach God’s Word, and to train them how to share their faith with friends and family.
Vision: See The Lighthouse as a center for evangelism, discipleship, and training new generations for Christ who will continue to impact Albania and other Muslim countries. It will be a center to serve the entire body of Christ for church conferences and retreats, along with pastoral and missionary training. With The Lighthouse fully built, they envision their summer ministry doubling in impact and continuing with momentum throughout the year.
Goal: The Lighthouse Camp plans to continue building a permanent building structure to host summer camps for up to 300 people on land that was purchased debt-free a few years ago. Currently, the accommodation capacity is around 100 people in tents and converted shipping containers into rooms.
SEE UPDATE VIDEO HERE.
CHURCH PLANTING INITIATIVE
Raph Peters, Sojourn Southside Pastor
Demeko Bivens, Sojourn Southside Pastor
Sojourn Southside is a new congregation within Sojourn Houston that had a soft launch in October 2022. On January 2023, they will launch weekly Sunday gatherings.
Sojourn Spring Branch has supported the Peters family and the Bivens family for the past three years as church planting residents and now hope to support them as new church planters.
Vision: Sojourn Southside is a congregation reconciling their neighbors to God and one another who desire to see a disciple-making movement through neighborhood parishes that make up their local church in the Southside (Third Ward).
Josue Sanchez, Koinonia Church Pastor
Koinonia Church is a new congregation being sent by The Grove Church within Acts29 that is meeting as a Core Team in the Sugarland area of Houston. They have started meeting over the summer and have launched their Missional Core of 9 families. Their plan is to do a soft launch early 2023 and launch weekly Sunday services later in 2023.
Sojourn Spring Branch hopes to support them as new church planters.
Vision: Koinonia Church sees Sugarland area saturated with the Gospel through God’s church.