Celebrate Missions
Every Tuesday, our Whiz Kids and their tutors fill the Cube with energy and more hugs than you can count (and recently a lot of 4th grade drama). Every Friday, our Celebrate Recovery meets for dinner and 12-step groups, passing out chips to celebrate markers of sobriety and life change. Our partners around the city are faithfully serving, loving and sharing the gospel in a variety of spaces including education, recovery, vulnerable families, outdoor ministry and food insecurity. Our deacons and bereavement team serve our church every day in meaningful ways that impact every single person in our church, whether they know it or not. Our groups are accessing the Care Portal and meeting the needs of families in our community. We have had adoptions finalized, babies come into loving foster homes and biological families strengthened. Around the world, we have partners living out their calling to move overseas, planting gospel-centered churches, training pastors, providing clean drinking water, bringing kids out of street life into a life of purpose and providing quality education. This is just the beginning of all there is to celebrate in the life of our church!
That is exactly what this mission season is all about: celebrating all that God is doing. I know you don’t need me to tell you about the difficulties of the past few years. You know it personally, and our church knows it collectively. The sadness, grief and loss is overwhelming, and there will continue to be heavy burdens we will carry together. But this year, we felt the need to blow up some balloons and take a moment to celebrate that God is with us and working, and we have each other. There is much to get excited about as we launch our 2022 Missions Season on April 24 - May 29.
Each Sunday will bring a special emphasis to a CRBC ministry or partnership through guest speakers, videos and more. This is also the time of year we ask you to give above and beyond your tithe to our Missions Ingathering Offering which goes to support ALL of our mission partnerships. Our goal is to surpass last year’s giving of $101,000. May 29 will be the big finale, and Chris Brewster will be our guest speaker. If you don’t know Chris Brewster, he is one of Oklahoma City’s treasured superintendents, pastors and community leaders. Every time I hear him speak, I leave bolstered and inspired to continue the good work ahead. His passion and background intertwine with the heart of our church in so many ways--from growing up on the mission field to his involvement in education and mentorship, adoption, racial equity and unity in our city, and a heart for the Church–-I know you will be impacted just like I have been.
To learn more, visit the missions webpage at www.councilroad.church/give. To give, designate “Missions” in your financial giving online or through text, or place an offering in an offering envelope and drop in the buckets on Sunday morning. I can’t wait to celebrate with you this Missions Season!
Author Bio
Makenzie graduated from Wheaton College where she majored in Christian Ministry, Urban Studies and Photography and somehow managed to apply it all to work in the real world! She has a passion for community development after years of working in urban ministry in Chicago, non-profits in Austin and serving on staff at CRBC. She loves being able to equip and serve the church as the Minister of Missions which includes cultivating both local and global partnerships. She is also quite the homebody, an avid Harry Potter fan, loves Oklahoma City and being with her friends, family and adorable weenie dog, May.