christmas 2016

BRINGING HOPE TO OUR WORLD

SERVICE GUIDE

CHRISTMAS 2016

A Guide of Opportunities to Give a Gift that Counts

THE GIFT OF GIVING

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE ‘Tis the season for lights, singing, thoughtfulness, joy, and giving. Many people in the Middle Tennessee area reach out to us during this time of year to see how they can be of help. In response, we have crafted this guide of opportunities. We hope it will serve as a tool to help you identify different ways you may be called to support and serve the body of Christ.

HERE YOU WILL FIND: Too many times, we look at all that’s broken in our world and we wonder what we can do—if anything at all—that will make any real difference. Too many times, we simply give up and don’t do anything. I’m not happy with that. I know you aren’t either. That’s why we’ve put together this Holiday Service Guide. Now, if you want to do something, turn through these pages and find the opportunity that resonates with your heart. Then, make the connection and get involved. In these pages, you’ll discover ways we can partner together this Christmas season. You’ll see opportunities to volunteer locally at places such as GraceWorks and Set Free. You’ll find ways to pray for our local, national, and international partners and missionaries. You’ll learn how our Christmas Food Baskets minister to the mind, body, and soul. You’ll see examples of how our giving to the Hope for the World Missions Offering makes a real difference in the lives of people both close to home and around the world. As Christians, we celebrate the greatest Gift of all by giving, and we give more than just money. Like Christ Himself, true love demands we give our whole selves to the work. There’s someone in here that needs to see the love of Christ in a very real way. In showing them the true meaning of Christmas, you’ll find it for yourself as well!

Mike Glenn Senior Pastor

WAYS TO SERVE Pages 3-10 tell you about opportunities to serve in and around the Middle Tennessee area.

WAYS TO GIVE Pages 11-15 illustrate what impact your giving makes through the Hope for the World Missions Offering.

WAYS TO PRAY On page 15, we end with prayer requests. You’ll notice that we’ve also included requests throughout the entire guide. That is because we know that we can do all things through prayer, and we greatly appreciate your remembering us and our ministry partners in prayer.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY Volunteers to Help Set Up

You are invited to attend our first annual Christmas Open House to be held on the TBCH Brentwood campus (1310 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37027) on Sunday, December 4 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

WAYS TO SERVE

The Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes provides residential and foster care for children who come from hard places. We desire to bring healing and hope to children and their families by ministering with the love of Jesus Christ during a time of crisis in their lives.

Volunteers may be needed to help us set up for this wonderful event. If your LIFE Group is interested in helping, please contact the TBCH Campus Ministry Assistant at 615.376.3190 or [email protected].

TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDREN’S HOMES

1310 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37027 Contact: [email protected] | TennesseeChildren.org

Established in 1983, Hope Clinic for Women equips women, men, and families to make healthy choices with unplanned pregnancies, prevention, pregnancy loss, and postpartum depression. We are a faith-based, safe, and confidential place for anyone seeking medical care, professional counseling, education, mentorship, and practical support regardless of age, race, or religion.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #1 Mentoring & Phone Counseling

Working directly with clients requires training and a regular commitment. We are specifically in need of male and female mentors for our pregnant clients and phone counselors to answer the initial crisis phone call. These volunteers will be trained to do both positions so they can be the most effective. Bilingual volunteers are a plus, and all volunteers must be at least 21 years of age.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #2 Clothing Room Organization

We appreciate consistent (weekly, monthly, quarterly) volunteer help in our Clothing Room with sorting donations and organizing our store. This is a great opportunity for individuals, families, or groups.

HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN

1810 Hayes Street, Nashville, TN 37203 Contact: [email protected] | HopeClinicforWomen.org

Pray for Sweet Sleep, led by Brentwood Baptist member Madelene Metcalf, as they provide beds, bedding, and Bibles for orphans globally.

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WAYS TO SERVE

SET FREE TOY STORE

The Set Free Toy Store takes place at Set Free Church on the second Saturday of December. The Store helps Set Free reach out to our community, where 93% of homes are headed by females, 28% of the residents are children 0-5 years old, the average annual household income is $5,000, and 62% of households do not own cars.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY Volunteers Needed

Toy and coat donations (new only please) will be accepted Monday through Thursday, November 14 through December 8 in the Brentwood Baptist Church Preschool Foyer. On Friday, December 9, we will deliver the toys to Set Free and set up the toy store. On Saturday, December 10, the store will open at 9:00 a.m. to the community. To volunteer at the Toy Store on December 10, email [email protected].

816 South Sixth Street, Nashville, TN 87206 Contact: [email protected]

SET FREE TOY STORE

Project Connect Nashville exists to help disconnected and vulnerable men, women, and their families build relationships with others who will encourage and guide them, providing assistance when needed, educating and equipping them for the challenges each day brings, and celebrating every victory along the way. We also seek to educate the church on poverty, connecting those who desire to serve to hurting individuals in their community.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #1 Franksgiving

Thanksgiving is on Thursday, but Franksgiving is on Friday, November 25. We’ll enjoy a festive feast of franks and build relationships with people who live in the middle of a severely impoverished community. This is a safe and rewarding experience for the whole family.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #2 Graduation Celebration

Sunday, November 27 | 107 Woodruff Street, Madison, TN Encourage students from Faith & Finances by hosting a graduation celebration that includes a homemade meal in a nice setting (e.g., flowers, tablecloths, service, etc.)

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #3 Lighting of the Green

Saturday, December 10 | 335 Forest Park Road, Madison, TN A little Germanesque Christmas Village in the heart of an impoverished community. Join us as we roast chestnuts, pass out Christmas food boxes, and sing carols. 335 Forest Park Road, Madison, TN 37115 Contact: [email protected] | ProjectConnectNashville.org

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PROJECT CONNECT NASHVILLE

Pray for Mobilizing Students, founded by Brentwood Baptist member Chris White, as they connect college students and young adults with Nashville’s refugee community.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #1 Refugee Health Promotion (RHP) Volunteers This unique program equips interested volunteers to train newly arrived refugees in the basic concepts of health literacy in their new country. We ask for a 3-month commitment initially and arrange for RHP volunteers to meet refugee families in their apartments, with a focus on building healthy relationships and increasing mutual understanding.

WAYS TO SERVE

Siloam Health is a faith-based, volunteer-supported primary and specialty care clinic that provides affordable, high-quality, whole-person care to the uninsured, as well as health promotion among Nashville’s immigrant and refugee communities. Our mission is to share the love of Christ by serving those in need through health care. Last year, the clinic served more than 5,000 individual patients and conducted more than 20,000 patient encounters.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #2 Hold A Drive

Collecting items is a great blessing to us, and it can be done by individual families, ministries, LIFE Groups, or entire congregations. Suggested drives include: over-the-counter cold & flu medication drive, refugee hygiene supplies drive, or children’s books, toys, and stuffed animals drive. Tours of Siloam or opportunities to prayer walk around the clinic are available upon request.

SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER

820 Gale Lane, Nashville, TN 37204 Contact: [email protected] | SiloamHealth.org

GraceWorks provides immediate and long-term resources to our neighbors in need. We serve the community through 20 programs ranging in the areas of Hunger Prevention, Family Support, Educational Programs, and Seasonal Needs.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES

November 19 | Thanksgiving Food Basket Delivery | Visit: Signup.com/go/oJVqUg November 24 | Turkey Trot 5k | Visit: Signup.com/go/kWgNzr December 7-15 | Christmas Manger | Visit: Signup.com/go/ikHznp December 17 | Christmas Food Basket Delivery | Visit: Signup.com/go/RoDcx2 Contact Erin Saurers for more information about volunteering: [email protected] | 615.794.9055

GRACEWORKS

104 Southeast Parkway, Suite 100, Franklin, TN 37064 | 615.794.9055 Contact: [email protected] | GraceWorksMinistries.net

Pray for Hope House International, founded by Brentwood Baptist member Daneen Turner, as they provide houses for Christian families adopting orphans in Eastern Europe.

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WAYS TO SERVE

The Well is a food pantry that began in 2006. Through the years, it has expanded to serve all 14 of the public schools in the Thompson’s Station and Spring Hill areas through the weekend JetPack program as well as one school in Columbia. The Well hosts mobile food pantries throughout the year. The food pantry serves Spring Hill, Thompson’s Station, College Grove, and northern Columbia.


We will be providing bags of groceries to 100 families in the area with ingredients to make a Thanksgiving meal. The packing for this event will be Monday morning, November 21 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. We will offer two distribution windows for our clients on Monday, November 21: from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. We will need volunteers (all ages welcome) to assist this day. If interested, please contact Operations Manager, Sully Cook, at [email protected].

5226 Main St., Suite C-5, Spring Hill, TN 37174 Contact: [email protected] | SpringHillWell.org

THE WELL OUTREACH

Men of Valor is a faith-based prison ministry whose mission is to win men in prison to Jesus and to disciple them in His ways. In-depth classes, special events, and relationships with Christian mentors teach the incarcerated and recently released how to walk out their faith and become givers to society rather than takers. MOV also ministers to their families—the forgotten, innocent victims of crime.


Individuals and groups can “adopt” a child whose father is in prison. MOV will provide the child’s age, gender, size, and wish list for Christmas. Contact: [email protected] MOV would like to have an alumni Christmas party for 50 men who have graduated from our program. You can help provide food and gifts. Contact: [email protected] MOV takes “goodie bags” to the 120 inmates in the program at Christmas. A group of volunteers can come help pass them out and pray with the recipients. Contact: curt @movnashville.com Help MOV host a Thanksgiving dinner for men going through the aftercare program. Contact: [email protected] 1410 Donelson Pike, Suite B-1, Nashville, TN 37217 Contact: [email protected] | Men-of-Valor.org

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WAYS TO PRAY

MEN OF VALOR

Pray for the houseparents and children on the Brentwood campus of the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes. Currently all these houseparents and children call Brentwood Baptist their church home.


We would like to have volunteers help with our graduation on Saturday, December 10 at 10:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church Nashville. Volunteers will help with set up, greeting, and clean up as well as provide a holiday reception for our graduates and their families. To learn more about serving at our Nashville, Williamson Co, and Woodbine locations, please contact the main office at [email protected].

BEGIN ANEW

WAYS TO SERVE

Begin Anew is an adult education ministry providing HiSet Prep, ESL, and Computer and Job Skill classes. Students enrolled in the ministry are individuals who want to improve their lives through education. Alongside their educational classes, students are also enrolled in a weekly Bible study and are provided a Christian mentor to support them while in the program. Students are provided free childcare during class times.

420 Main Street, Nashville, TN 37206 Contact: [email protected] | BeginAnew.org

The goal of Youth Encouragement Services is to support at-risk children by encouraging them to realize their full potential and advocate a better future for themselves and their families. We pursue improvement in the Nashville community as a whole by enhancing the individual lives of its inner-city children, seeking to meet their needs in every area of development—academically, physically, spiritually, and socially.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES Need New Toys, Clothing, & Food

Each year Youth Encouragement Services (YES) provides a huge Christmas Store for the families we serve. This year, our 2016 Christmas Store will be held on Saturday, December 17. This event allows YES to be a blessing to the families we serve by providing them with new toys, clothing, and food. We are fortunate to have partners like churches, businesses, social clubs, schools, etc. to support this ministry of giving.

YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES

521 McIver St., Nashville, TN 37211 Contact: [email protected] | YouthEncouragement.org

Pray for IMB missionaries and Brentwood Baptist members, David and Laura Moench, serving in Western Europe for over 25 years.

WAYS TO PRAY

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WAYS TO SERVE

The Next Door in Nashville is a treatment center that helps women and their families who are impacted by addiction, mental illness, trauma, and/or incarceration with Christ-centered compassionate care. Currently, 21 families live at The Next Door’s Freedom Recovery Community.


Do you have a favorite recipe that is part of your holiday tradition? Why not share it with a family in need? This holiday, you are invited to make an impact by sharing your recipe and the story behind what makes it special with one of our Freedom Recovery Community families and, in turn, help them begin new family traditions as they continue to heal. Please provide the recipe and all of the ingredients to prepare it (the ingredients cannot be premeasured, but must be provided in unopened containers). Your family will deliver the ingredients and share this special time with the Community families on Saturday, December 10 between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Yvonne Chumchal at [email protected] or call 615.251.8805 ext. 619.

402 22nd Avenue N, Nashville, TN 37203 Contact: [email protected] | TheNextDoor.org

THE NEXT DOOR

Bethany Christian Services brings families together and keeps families together. Safe Families for Children is a ministry that allows vulnerable children to be hosted by loving, Christian families for a short period of time. The children served through our ministries often have not experienced a feeling of abundance during the holidays, so this holiday season is an opportunity for your church to bless families living in poverty.


For the 2016 holiday season, Bethany Christian Services will have wish lists from numerous children who are living in vulnerable situations. The children served have loving families, but are often struggling to stay afloat financially. Allowing the children to have their Christmas wishes granted by generous volunteers is a great way to show the love and abundance of Christ’s provision. Each family will receive a wish list directly from a child in one of our ministries. Age, gender, and personal preferences will be included in the list to help families at Brentwood Baptist shop together and make this Christmas a great blessing to our children.

230 Great Circle Road Suite 229, Nashville, Tennessee 37228 Contact: [email protected] | Bethany.org/nashville

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BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES

Pray for church planting partner, Brian Drinkwine, and his wife, Sarah, as they plant a new congregation in West Nashville and welcome their first child.


Every Tuesday evening throughout the year, Welcome Home Ministries provides a meal at two recovery home locations in East Nashville. Individuals or LIFE Groups can prepare and serve meals.

WAYS TO SERVE

Welcome Home Ministries is a faith-based alcohol and drug recovery support ministry, established in 1992. Our mission is “to enter worlds of brokenness in order that all might experience wholeness in Jesus Christ.” The alcohol and drug recovery support ministry provides a structured 24/7 sober living community with services and support for men who suffer from chronic alcohol and drug addictions.

You can also offer your gift of music to entertain and inspire the gentlemen in the program during a Tuesday evening meal. The holiday season is a great time to provide clothing for many residents who often come with nothing more than the clothes they are wearing. Coats, jackets, and sweaters are needed; all types and sizes of clothing are appreciated. Socks, shoes, and belts need to be added to the wish list, too. Additionally, residents need simple things like toiletries (deodorant, shaving cream, toothbrushes, etc.)

WELCOME HOME MINISTRIES

P.O. Box 100183, Nashville, Tennessee 37224 Contact: [email protected] | WelcomeHomeMin.org

Franktown is a support ministry to at-risk children of Williamson County. Four nights each week, kids are picked up from their bus stops after school. They are tutored, fed dinner, taught life skills, and mentored by great volunteers.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #1 Thanksgiving Food Baskets

Thanksgiving Food baskets for Franktown families November 21-23 | Approximately $75.00 per family of four of non-perishable food

SERVICE OPPORTUNITY #2 Christmas shopping party for the children

On December 12, Franktown will host a Christmas shopping party for the children we serve so they can enjoy a night of food, fellowship, and giving. You can sponsor a child for $150 per child. Other volunteer opportunities include: being a “shoperone” that takes the children shopping (background check required), setting up/decorating the fellowship hall the day of the event, providing/serving food to the children and “shoperones,” gift-wrapping the packages when the children return from shopping.

FRANKTOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY, INC.

412 Cummins Street, Franklin TN 37064 P.O. Box 611, Franklin, TN 37065 Contact: [email protected] | FrankTownOpenHearts.com

Pray for Brentwood Baptist member, Renee Rizzo, who is the Executive Director of Hope Clinic for Women and a part of our Avenue South campus. Hope Clinic helps hundreds of women each year choose life for their unborn babies throughout Middle Tennessee. Pray that she will lead with boldness and compassion.

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This year we are asking you, your family, and/or your LIFE Group to help.

YOU CAN:

q PACK

Among all campuses, we will provide over 800 food baskets to families in need this season. Each basket is $50; however, all donations are welcome.

Join the fun as we pack these 800+ food baskets. All ages are welcome to help. Please sign up for one or more of the times listed at the website below.

PACK

q PURCHASE BRENTWOOD CAMPUS

FRIDAY, DEC. 9 | SATURDAY, DEC. 10

STATION HILL CAMPUS

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10

AVENUE SOUTH CAMPUS

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10

q PARTICIPATE WITH OUR PARTNERS

Join our ministry partners this Christmas season as they distribute these food baskets through their ministries. All ages are welcome, and time frames are flexible. Check out opportunities to deliver, adopt families, participate in Christmas events, and more on our website.

BrentwoodBaptist.com/christmasfoodbaskets

Your gift helps our ministry partners serve their communities in Middle Tennessee neighborhoods and across the globe. In these pages, you will see what kind of impact your giving makes for just a few of the organizations that Hope for the World supports. For a full list of partners, please vist us online.

HOW TO GIVE

• BY CASH OR CHECK • ONLINE by online check, credit card, or debit card • BY KIOSK Available at Avenue South, Brentwood,

Your Gift to HOPE FOR THE WORLD Makes a Difference

PARTNER

SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION INITIATIVES

Millions of people don’t have access to God’s Word in their own heart language. Partnering with the International Mission Board, we are bringing Scripture to the hearts and minds of people. We have funded projects in West Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and among the Deaf throughout the world.

$10 can buy

lunch for a week for one woman attending a story development workshop in West Africa.

$100 can buy

recording equipment for developing Bible stories in one language in the Middle East.

$1,000 can buy

development of four Bible stories for Syrian Refugees.

$10,000 can buy

one story development workshop among four Arabic-related languages in the Middle East.

WAYS TO GIVE

Station Hill, and West Franklin campuses

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Pray for Living Hope Community Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, as they minister to thousands of people each year who suffer from chronic unemployment, disease, and poverty. Brentwood Baptist members Danielle Schneider, Dustin Denning, and Amy Aaron currently serve as missionaries at Living Hope. John and Avril Thomas founded this ministry over 15 years ago. Pray that our missionaries, the Thomases, and the entire staff at Living Hope will serve in love, unity, and power.

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WAYS TO GIVE


Deaf Affinity

The Deaf Affinity is one of nine IMB Affinity Groups helping share Jesus with Deaf around the world.

PARTNER $10 can buy

four notebooks with visual icons along a biblical timeline that corresponds to Bible stories that have been translated into a local sign language.

$100 can buy

studio time for filming a Bible story that has been translated into a local sign language.

$1,000 can support

one Deaf national partner for one month of work on a storying project, which supports the ongoing translation of Bible stories. This work supports church planting efforts in local Deaf communities.

$10,000 can buy two full studios (including camera and lights) for Deaf national partners to record Bible stories in local sign languages. 3806 Monument Ave, Richmond, Virginia Contact: [email protected] | deafpeoples.imb.org

DEAF AFFINITY


African Leadership partners with local leaders who are breaking the cycle of trauma and poverty in their own communities.

$10 can buy

one local language study Bible for pastoral students.

$100 can buy

five sets of Oromo language course materials for pastoral students in Ethiopia.

$1,000 can support

nine pastoral students as they complete their two-year course certificate tuition in DR Congo.

$10,000 can support

1,000 people in one African neighborhood as they discover their common ground with the gospel.

500 Wilson Pike Cir, Ste 117, Brentwood, TN 37027 Contact: [email protected] | AfricanLeadershipInc.org

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WAYS TO PRAY

AFRICAN LEADERSHIP

Pray for Welcome Home Ministries as they assists men recovering from addiction. Over 30 men are provided transitional housing through Welcome Home in Nashville. Founded and led by Brentwood Baptist members Daryl and Glenda Murray, Welcome Home seeks prayer for provision, healing, job opportunities, family restoration, and spiritual rebirth for these men.

Siloam Health Center cares for the uninsured in Middle Tennessee by providing affordable, whole-person care that addresses the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of health.

SILOAM HEALTH CENTER

$10 can buy

vitamins for a patient.

$100 can buy

four X-ray exams.

$1,000 can cover

the cost of four visits.

$10,000 can provide

two full days of clinic operations.

WAYS TO GIVE


820 Gale Lane, Nashville, TN 37204 Contact: [email protected] | SiloamHealth.org


Young Life Capernaum gives young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the chance to experience fun and adventure, to develop fulfilling friendships, and to challenge their limits while building self-esteem through club, camp, and other exciting activities. Young Life staff and volunteers model Christ’s unconditional love and acceptance as they walk alongside these young adults—filling their lives with love and support. $10 can buy

a Bible for a camper who doesn’t have one at home.

$100 can buy

follow up activities to reinforce the gospel for ten campers with disabilities.

$1,000 can buy a full week at camp for a camper and a high school buddy. $1,000 can provide

YOUNG LIFE CAPERNAUM

a training specialist for one year to encourage YL staff to include kids with disabilities in their ministries in a specific state.

PO Box 2766, Brentwood, TN 37024 Phone: 615.538.8138 | wilcocapernaum.younglife.org

Pray for Jamie Thompson as he pastors Reborn Community Church in Chicago. Over 800 of our members have served with Reborn in Chicago over the last 12 years. Pray for the leadership of Reborn as they remodel the old firehouse that they now own—with funds provided by our church.

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World Relief embraces refugees who have been forced to leave their countries by meeting their physical, relational, and spiritual needs.

$10 can buy

snacks and ministry materials for after school programs.

$100 can provide utility assistance, health care, and ESL classes for individuals. $1,000 can buy

temporary housing for 12 six-person families a year.

$10,000 can buy

a new box truck to help facilitate apartment setups and donation collection. This provides refugee families with housing goods they need.

411 West Thompson Lane, Nashville, TN 37211 P: 615.833.7735 ext. 236 F: 615.833.7131 | WorldReliefNashville.org

WORLD RELIEF


The mission of the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes is to minister the love of Jesus Christ to children and families in crisis. Each year, our homes help children and families in crisis through TBCH residential care, counseling, and other programs.

$10 would allow

a child to go on a field trip with his or her class.

$100 would provide

one counseling session for a child.

$1,000 would provide clothing for two children for the year. $10,000 would provide activities and recreation for the TBCH children for the entire year.

1310 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37027 Contact: [email protected] | TennesseeChildren.org

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TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDREN’S HOMES

Pray for David and Nicole Hannah as they serve as Brentwood Baptist missionaries in Bologna, Italy. Working with university students, the Hannahs disciple dozens of Italian young adults as they search for meaning and purpose that is to be found only in Jesus. Pray that the Hannahs will have open doors to share the gospel.

Brentwood’s Student Ministry pioneered our partnership with Pastor Victor Thomas and the Point Church in Vancouver almost 10 years ago. Since that time, the Point has baptized dozens of adults and has expanded to 5 “micro-locations” throughout the greater Vancouver area. Vancouver is one of the least churched cities in North America. $10 would provide

three people classes about Jesus for a non-Christian seeker, which includes meals.

$100 would buy

15 gospel conversations over coffee

$1,000 would provide

three Annual International Student Outreaches: A Beginning of Semester BBQ, Annual Fall Thanksgiving Dinner, and Annual Christmas Eve Dinner. These events allow The Point to connect with over 450 international students.

WAYS TO GIVE


$10,000 would provide Venue hosting and sound equipment for a new church plant in Vancouver—one of North America’s least reached cities. 3200 Academic Quadrangle, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada PointChurch.ca

10 WAYS TO PRAY for Persecuted Christians Around the World PRAY THAT THEY WILL… 1. Sense God’s presence

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THE POINT CHURCH VANCOUVER, B.C.

Hebrews 13:5

2. Know the greater body of Christ is praying for them 2 Timothy 1:3 3. Experience God’s comfort when persecuted

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

4. See God open doors to evangelism

Colossians 4:3

5. Boldly share the gospel

Acts 4:29

6. Forgive and love their persecutors

Matthew 5:44

7. Be granted wisdom in covert ministry work

Acts 9:23-25

8. Remain joyful amid suffering

Acts 5:41

9. Mature in their faith

Colossians 1:28-29

10. Be rooted in God’s Word

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Reprinted with permission of Voice of Martyrs © 2016 | persecution.com

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Did You Know? 30+ missionary units from Brentwood Baptist are currently serving overseas, have recently completed their assignment, or are preparing to go. Our church planting partners in Nepal reported 164 decisions for Christ and 105 baptisms last year. In 2015, over 15,000 instances of local missions engagement by members across all our campuses were recorded. 12,000 have been recorded through September of this year. Iglesia de las Americas—Williamson County’s first Hispanic Southern Baptist Church—was planted by Brentwood Baptist and other sister churches almost 10 years ago. They have baptized 14 adults so far this year. 475 people from our family of congregations participated in mission journeys in 2015. We are set to surpass 500 participants this year. In 2001, our church raised $72,000 for missions through the annual missions offering. Last year, we gave $1,218,000. Our goal for 2016 is $1,200,000. Right now we are tracking 30% ahead of last year. Let’s finish strong! Funded through the Hope for the World Missions Offering, Mission Increase Middle Tennessee provides free coaching to faith-based non-profits. Launched in September 2015, Mission Increase already has 94 local non-profits that it assists. Our Medical Dental Unit has treated 633 patients so far in 2016 with two dozen decisions for Christ. Over 100 students representing more than a dozen countries have received ESL (English as a Second Language) instruction at The Church at Woodbine this year.