All In
ALL IN. This is about building the church – so that we can build the Church. It’s about more than raising $5,000,000 over the next five years. It is bigger than that. It is about all of us, taking our cue from the early church, and simply being “all in.” For most that will mean giving towards our initial goal of raising $3,000,000 over the next 36 months. But it will also mean that we all look at how engaged we are in the life of Circle and consider what our next step to being ALL IN means. For some it will be learning how we are gifted to bless our neighbors and Circle, for others it will be stepping into roles that allow those gifts to be developed. So, yes, this is a $5,000,000 fundraising campaign, but it is so much more than that. So, what do you think? Are you ALL IN?
Going back to when the property was purchased, the goal was to build out a space that could bless more people. That vision got bogged down, and we have as a community sensed the Spirit telling us it is time to pick it up again.
Take a minute and think about the ways that you have been blessed, encouraged, challenged, and helped by the community of Circle. Our area is growing, and each of the people that will be moving in over the next few years is desperately precious to the heart of Jesus. They matter to Him, and he simply asks that we make them matter to us. As it is right now, even if some of those people wanted to come to Circle, there is almost no room for them! This is about making space for all of us to engage together and change. How many times have many of us had ideas about
how we could be a blessing to those around us, but we simply do not have the space? Having a much bigger space allows us to be able to say YES to so much more!
If all we do is raise a bunch of money and build a great building, then we have fallen short of what the Spirit is calling us to do. The money allows us to build the house, but all of us need to be ALL IN to make it a home. The vision of God for the church, since it was born at Pentecost, has always been that everyone would do what they can, follow the direction of the Spirit, use the gifts they have been given, and trust that the Father would weave that into something amazing. ALL IN is an opportunity for you to better understand the calling of God for this next season of your life.
Is this a big challenge? You bet. But if all of us do what God calls us to, if all of us will trust Him in our part, then this will happen! We have said from the start, everyone does what they can do, and does not feel guilty for what they cannot do. But all of us need to take at least one step. When God led Israel back to the Promised Land, they had to cross the Jordan. So, God stopped it from flowing – but He didn’t do that until they started walking across. The Israelites saw this miraculous move of God occurring as the people in front of them crossed a river that without God they could never cross. But more than that, each of them had to decide that they would cross too. That the water would not swallow them as they were walking across, that the strength of God would hold. The same is true of us, we will all see God move in powerful ways, but then the question will be, will we step in and be ALL IN?
From the first day walking into the church, we felt accepted as part of the church family…Circle is a good community of fellow believers that care for one another’s well-being and love each other through all of life’s twists and turns and that’s why I’m all in!
– Mitchell
“America needs a church like Circle of Peace” – S.H.
At Circle, we were seen and embraced…I found the support I needed to keep evolving which is why I am ALL IN!
– Tara
“Circle of Peace preaches Jesus and lives out Jesus in action.”
-Darlene
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
–2 Cor. 9:10-13
