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Pilar Valentino at Karazim Ministry on Grand Bahama Island
At Christ Journey Church we strive to answer the call of Matthew 25.
“I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me”. Our partner missions and missionaries are those that provide food for the hungry, clothes for the naked, medical care for the sick, education for the illiterate, shelter for the discarded and the love and hope of Christ for all. You are a vital part of this. A strong percentage of Christ Journey Church’s operating budget is allocated to support our global and local missions partners. Christ Journey is steadfastly committed to joining the Lord in his work with the least of these. Take a look through this Giving Book. It is full of real things, helping real people in real places. Your Godgiven time, talent and treasure are so important to forward the Kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven”. Remarkable things happen through the blessings of the Lord and the giving of the faithful.
WAYS YOU CAN GIVE Place your gift in an envelope during regular weekend worship times and specify “Missions.” Give online at ChristJourney.org/Give and make sure to check “Missions.” 1
Use your smartphone to scan the code here and be directed to online giving.
When you and I give of our tithe, we are supporting our ongoing ministries through the operating budget, our mission efforts, and designated projects. When we give to the ongoing budget lives are changed, ministries are provided for and the gospel is shared. What a privilege to be a part! This catalogue represent gifts given above and beyond the church’s tithe (firstfruits) and can help accomplish even greater things. Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. - Proverbs. 3:9-10
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Christ Journey sends short-term mission trips to offer medical and dental care, as well as agricultural, pastoral, and educational training. One hundred and twenty people paid their way and traveled to partner countries to offer of themselves to the least of these. Another 743 served in Miami communities through City Serve. In the last year we have built buildings, distributed food and provided literacy programs. Christ Journey teams seek to spread God’s love “glocally” through their acts of service.
Cuba
$1,058,188
120 ON GLOBAL MISSION*
ACTUAL DOLLARS & CONSERVATIVE VALUE OF GIFTS-IN-KIND*
743
ON LOCAL MISSION THROUGH CITY SERVE*
Ecuador Nicaragua
Bahamas
India
Dominican Republic
Brazil
*Totals from Christ Journey fiscal year Aug 2011 - Aug 2012.
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Christ Journey member Henry Meyer has volunteered faithfully for 41 years with South Florida Jail Ministry.
WHAT HAPPENS
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Provide a new backpack & school supplies for an inner-city child at Touching Miami with Love in Overtown Provide 5 children in Living Hope Haiti orphanage a toy for Christmas Purchase materials like test tubes & beakers for the new Science lab at the school run by Fundacion Amor Y Esperanza in Quito, Ecuador. Pay for a Miskito language Bible to be put into someone’s hands by Open Hearts Ministry along the Rio Coco (the autonomous indigenous region of Nicaragua) Provide a food basket for a family or a propane gas tank for cooking for a month through Apascentai Minhas Ovelhas (Feed My Sheep) in Brazil Support a missionary for 1 month in the Pinar del Rio region in Cuba. Provide educational supplies for students served by Karazim Ministries in the Bahamas, whose parents cannot pay for them. Supplies such as text books. Provide ink and paper to Florida Baptist Children’s Home
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Give one afternoon of Christ-centered fun, fellowship, homework help, & skill development to 20 at-risk middle school youth through Open House in Homestead.
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Educate a child for one year in Dominican Republic through Alfalit International. Provide basic school supplies like paper, pencils, pens and crayons for children in Dominican Republic through Alfalit International.
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Provide 100 kids at the Lacide Living Hope Haiti elementary school a daily hot meals for 2 weeks. Help a child in the Bahamas to be a part of Karazim’s Metamorphosis program where they learn social graces, sexual purity, & spirituality. Pay the monthly cost for tuition, books, uniforms, & activities for a child living in Casa Havilah & Casa Robles to go to school, which are rescue homes run by Open Hearts in Nicaragua. Sponsor a child living in the Brazilian favleas in Apascentai Minha Ovelhas’ (Feed My Sheep) Embrace-A-Child program for 1 year. Purchase window treatments for the children’s rooms at Florida Baptist Children’s Home. Fund 1 Alive Again meeting at Open House in Homestead - a Christ-centered, 12 step recovery group for youth struggling with addictions. Feed 3 children at Living Hope Haiti Christian Mission for 1 month. Provide 1 inner-city teenager the opportunity to go to Oasis Camp, a SpringBreak camp designed for urban youth through Touching Miami with Love in Overtown. Provide 5 wood carving kits for Karazim’s work work empowerment program in the Bahamas. Young men are trained how to carve native wood & sell them to tourists for a living. Purchase 24 Bibles for new Christians through Open House in Homestead. Provide 1 month of food & medical care for a child in the Casa Havilah & Casa Robles rescue homes through Open Hearts in Nicaragua. Provide Florida Baptist Children’s home with outdoor patio furniture.
Scan here to see more photos from Living Hope Haiti.
A group of men from Christ Journey led by Mike Carter and Reid Richards built the church foundation in St. Michele, Haiti for partner Living Hope Haiti.
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Christ Journey missionary, Elly Admiral, in Sudan
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Provide 2 inner-city teenagers a spot in Touching Miami with Love’s 5 campus college tour in Northern Florida Provide a scholarship for a high school graduating senior apart of Touching Miami with Love’s program heading to college Purchase a 2” Honda water pump to the farmers of Living Hope Church in Camathe, Haiti which will multiply their crop yield. Purchase a new computer for the computer lab at the Fundacion Amor y Esperanza school in Ecuador to teach computers to students Fund 1 week of Open House’s Wise-Up afterschool program for 36 at-risk Homestead elementary children. Feed all 300 children at the school in La Chureca (the city dump) for one day through Open Hearts in Nicaragua. Supply fuel needed for a month for missions trips to the favelas in Sao Paulo, Campinas, & Varzea Paulista through Apascentai Minhas Ovelhas (Feed My Sheep) in Brazil. Provide a monthly supply of food for 20 families through our partners in the Pinar del Rio area of Cuba.
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Provide 1 new stove to a residence cottage at Florida Baptist Children’s Home.
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Provide a water pump to irrigate crops in the community of St. Michele, Haiti, to prevent farmers from losing their crops to drought.
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Provide 1 month of dinner for the 35 teenagers in Touching Miami with Love’s Today’s Leaders Youth Development program.
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Provide 1 month of lease payment on the Charthouse Feeding Center run by Karazim Ministries on Grand Bahama Island. This feeding center provides food and other services to the whole island. Replace a severely leaking, asbestos roof in the boys home at Open Hearts in Nicaragua
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Provide a new roof and seats for those who worship at Jehovah Nisi Baptist Church in Santiago, Cuba.
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Provide sponsorship for 1 child in Touching Miami with Love’s year-round Tomorrow’s Leaders Out of School program. Provide running water for Jehovah Nisi Baptist Church in Santiago, Cuba. Supply basic necessities like soap, bed sheets, pillows, towel, medication, food & housing for hospitalized patients and their families through Jehovah Nisi Baptist Church in Santiago, Cuba.
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Christ Journey youth Franchesca Burgos, Leah Livingston, Andrew Livingston, Joshua Larrea, Katlin Svadbik & Kelly Adams in Ecuador Summer 2012
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BIG
DREAMS
We asked some of our partners to share a dream for their ministry and this is how they responded:
Florida Baptist Children’s Home, Miami dreams of refurnishing the cottages with new bedroom furniture. This would give a homelike feel to the rooms teenage orphans make their own, helping the teens feel more valued as individuals. The cost to replace the bedroom furniture is $20,000.
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Touching Miami with Love dreams of joining Project Cease Fire to deal with the root causes of violence in their overtown community. The projected cost to develop this program is $100,000.
Apascentai Minhas Ovelhas (Feed my Sheep) in Brazil dreams of providing camps for underprivileged children and teens from the favelas and neighboring communities from five different cities. To build and enhance this important ministry they are in need of: slides, swings, sports equipment, picnic tables and chairs, bedding, sheets, towels, full-time volunteers, covered eating areas, ping pong tables and volleyball nets and balls. The projected cost is $10,000.
Living Hope Haiti Christian Missions dreams of providing local small farmers with a diesel operated corn grinder to improve their standard of living. Each corn grinder costs $8,500.
Fundacion Amor Y Esperanza in Ecuador dreams of purchasing land and then completing a new high school, so they can teach children from day one in day care until they graduate. In the future, they would love to begin a college. The cost of this project is $200,000+.
Open Hearts dreams of building a new school on Nicaraguan land which has been given to them by the Spanish government as they clean up La Chureca (the city dump). Colegio Esperanza has been serving the community for 13 years & they hope to continue to serve these children. The projected cost to build the school is $235,000.
Open Hearts dreams of assisting the Casa Robles rescue home for abused and neglected children by covering all of the food, transportation, educational, and health costs for the children for three months, as well as replace a severely leaking asbestos roof in the boys’ home. The projected cost is $9,500.
First Baptist Church of Pinar del Rio, Cuba dreams of repairing a dilapidated church to bring more people to Christ. The projected cost to repair the roof, walls, and windows to provide a better worship experience for the people is $30,000.
Open House in Homestead hopes to purchase a 12-passenger vehicle to safely transport children and youth. Currently, their staff members use their vehicles to take kids home. The project cost for this vehicle is $30,000.
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MISSION LOCAL & DOMESTIC MISSIONS PARTNERS Agape Family Ministries Florida Baptist Children’s Home Miami Rescue Mission Open House Ministries South Florida Jail Ministry Touching Miami with Love The Glory House
Make a Difference in Miami Sign up for City Serve
Winter City Serve December 15, 2012
Spring City Serve Date TBA
For more information and future event dates, visit ChristJourney.org/Missions.
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High School student Natalie Shafer spent Spring Break on the Christ Journey Bahamas Youth trip
GLOBAL MISSIONS STRATEGIC PARTNERS LOCATION
MINISTRY
MISSIONARY
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Feed my Sheep
Pete and Jodi Brennan*
Grand Bahama, Bahamas
Karazim Ministries
Raoul and Karen Armbrister*
St Michele, Haiti
Living Hope Haiti Christian Mission
Calvin Babcock
Pinar del Rio, Cuba
First Baptist Church San Luis
Havana ,Cuba
Ministerio Cristiano Alcanze Victoria Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
Jehovah Nisi VI Baptist Church of Santiago de Cuba
Hyderabad, India
Paul J. Sumanth Ministries
David Sumanth
Managua, Nicaragua
Open Hearts Ministry
Chris and Krista Farrington*
International
Food for the Poor
International
Alfalit International
*Full-time Christ Journey missionary support in addition to mission support
CHRIST JOURNEY SUPPORTED MISSIONARIES Steve and Arlend Debardelaben, CRU Jason and Jenise Burris, CRU Larry and Betty Barr, CRU Elly Admiral, Africa Inland Mission
Christ Journey Missions partners, Karen and Raoul Armbrister on Grand Bahama Island
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YOU CAN GO
GLOBAL Brazil Summer • Date TBD
Ecuador Summer • Date TBD
Santiago, Cuba Summer • July 12-19, 2013
Nicaragua Youth Trip • Spring • March 23-30, 2013
Pinar del Rio, Cuba Summer • July 20-27, 2013
Nicaragua Medical Professionals • Summer Date TBD
For the most current information, please visit ChristJourney.org/Missions
Trip to Quito, Ecuador
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Christ Journey Medical/Dental team praying for the village in Nicaragua
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Christ Journey Missionary Clemencia Rosero in the Carmen Bajo School, Quito Ecuador
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By selecting “Missions” when you donate online or during our worship experiences you are equally supporting all of our Missions Partners through our budget and additional giving. If you wish to designate a larger gift to a specific partner’s “Big Dream” please contact Christ Journey’s Mission Staff at 305-448-4425 ext. 244 or email missions@ubcmiami.org to arrange the donation. Got a smartphone? Use the QR code to the right to give now. Our partners are not only blessed by your financial gifts, but by your prayers, your talents, and your time. Visit ChristJourney.org/Missions for ways to volunteer locally and globally.
All photos in this catalog were captured in 2011-2012 through Christ Journey mission partners and mission trips.
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