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Thanks for participating in IMAGINE.

We love Celebration Church

We love the passionate commitment to reaching the lost, feeding the hungry and taking care of the orphan and widow. It is because we love Celebration that we each want to be personally engaged in our mission.

Right now, we have an urgent window of opportunity to move forward in our IMAGINE building campaign and break ground on our new hub at Baymeadows and 9A this October.

Why This Urgent Focus Now?

• We are in the midst of a 90-day window to raise the funds necessary to close on our approved construction loan.
• At our rate of growth, we will reach capacity at Midtown (the current hub) next year. If we don’t break ground now on a new building, we will be forced to turn people away, hindering our ability to minister the love of Jesus to the lost, the hurting and the next generation.

How Do We Accomplish This Goal?

We can only accomplish our goal with everyone participating. If each household commits to giving, we can be successful.

• Our goal is 2000 households participating in IMAGINE. We must move from the current 970 families participating to 2000 families to be successful.
• If you are not participating in IMAGINE, now is the time to start.
• To show our commitment to participate now and track our progress toward success, we are asking each household to pick up an “I Love Celebration Church” puzzle piece. Turn that puzzle piece in to the offering with your next IMAGINE contribution and watch the “heart of Celebration” grow.

We understand giving to IMAGINE is a sacrifice, but if each of us does our part to pray and give as much as we can, as frequently as we can over these two months – together, we will reach this goal.

God is using Celebration Church to make a difference in the World. Thanks to your IMAGINE giving, YOU are making it possible to reach the lost in regions that until now have been untouched and seemingly forgotten.

Ten percent of all IMAGINE giving goes toward the support of Celebration Church’s International church plants in Africa, Costa Rica, and the future plant in Greece. We have been able to provide places of worship in countries where Christianity is not widely accepted and provide food, shelter, and hope for thousands of children. In the near future we will provide an avenue for social justice in places where human trafficking is an overwhelming reality.

YOU have made a difference in the lives of thousands. Countless more can be reached if we all choose to participate in what God is doing here in our church. Our impact cannot stop here. There is so much more work to be done.

Can you IMAGINE?

At Celebration Church we hear a lot about how God calls us to sacrifice our time, our talent and our finances for the benefit of others.

While we all understand this concept, it can become easy to forget how God can use our sacrifices to impact those in need. We can find ourselves asking the question, “Does my sacrifice really matter?”

Here are just a few personal examples of how God has used the sacrifices of Celebration Church to make a huge difference in the lives of others:

“Steve” at Jax Beach

A gentleman named Steve, who was toothless, was part of those served at Celebration’s Jax Beach Homeless Outreach. Steve had an alcohol addiction and would often cause disturbance during the outreach. Pastor Wade and the team referred him to Gateway Community Services for rehab. Steve has since returned and is sober, has a full-time job, and his own place to live. With help of I.M. Sulzbacher Center, Steve also has a full set of new teeth! He is now comes back regularly to help the team serve and give back to the homeless.

“Sharon” in North Jacksonville

A team of more than 100 volunteers from Celebration Church, in partnership with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, spent a Saturday morning painting and repairing Sharon’s home, along with three other North Jacksonville neighborhood houses. The outreach team also painted over graffiti in the area and picked up trash along the streets. The outreach and beautification effort renewed hope for Sharon and the Eugene Butler community.

“It takes a good-hearted person to volunteer their time, even on a Saturday, to come help someone else,” Sharon said. “It’s a blessing.”

“Jorge” in Costa Rica

Celebration Mission team members were able to bless Jorge and his family by helping them move into a new house, thoroughly cleaning it, and purchasing supplies. They found out later that it was a fulfilled promise the Lord had given Jorge several years ago. Jorge and his wife lived with their 4 children in a 2-bedroom house where dirt and water often came through the ceiling from the house above them. All of their housing supplies were old and worn out including 22-year-old mattresses that were bug-infested.

The team pitched in and purchased the family new kitchen supplies, a bed frame, and new mattresses for their 4 children. The team was also able to thoroughly clean the very dirty house. Jorge works as an associate pastor for a church but earns his living through a struggling internet café. God told him to stay faithful and that he would bring them out the situation and that people from North America would come bearing gifts. Little did the team know that they would be a part of this promise’s fulfillment.

So does our sacrifice really matter? It certainly mattered to Steve, Sharon and Jorge.

These stories are just 3 of the thousands of examples of how God is using the time, talents and finances of Celebration Church members to make life changing impacts to our community and even around the world.

In Mark 9:41 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.”

Thank you so much for your sacrifice! God is using it to make a difference in our hurting world!

Please take a moment to watch our latest IMAGINE video.  

What does God want to do through you to reach the hurting, hopeless and lost?  If you have not yet committed to participating in our New Facility project at Baymeadows and 9A, would you prayerfully consider how God might use your financial sacrifice to reach others in our community?

Please take a moment to check out the March ‘09 Video Update on our IMAGINE Campaign.  Please continue to pray for our church as we move towards our new facility at Baymeadows Road and 9A

Celebration Church continues to grow and the Midtown and Orange Park campuses are adding services.

God has blessed us with the opportunity to minister to so many people that we are expanding our Service Options beginning the weekend of February 8th.

NEW SERVICE TIME ADDITIONS

Midtown
Sunday: 1:15 PM

Orange Park
Sunday: 6:00 PM

In addition, we will be launching new campuses the same weekend in St. Augustine and Camden County.

We believe that God will continue to increase our reach in our community, which makes IMAGINE, our building campaign for our new facility at Baymeadows Road and 9a, increasingly important.

Our new facility will seat 4200 people every service (currently Midtown can seat about 1500 per service, including the Annex.) The new building will allow us to not only reach more people, but to be better Stewards of God’s people.

Thank you so much for your continued participation by giving over and above your tithe to IMAGINE.

Our FAQ’s page has recently been updated. Click on the FAQ’s tab at the top of the site to check them out. If you have any additional questions, please let us know.

Thanks for participating in IMAGINE.

On Wednesday’s Vision Night, Pastor Stovall shared with us an update on IMAGINE. Here are the highlights:

In 2009, we will have both a Financial Goal and a Participation Goal as a church. Our Financial Goal this year is $4.5 Million. This figure represents the $1 Million left from our 2008 goal and the $3.5 Million needed this year in order to break ground.

Our 2009 Participation Goal is 2000 Households. In order for us to be successful and break ground in 2009, it will require that all of us do our part by participating.

Pastor Stovall also announced two changes for 2009. Because of the current economic climate in our nation, we will be implementing a “Phase” approach for the construction of the new building. This will mean that we will be able to build in phases, which will allow us to stay on target with our timelines and better manage the available finances.

Additionally, 10% of all IMAGINE gifts will now go not only to Africa, but also towards the funding of Celebration Church’s International Church Plants in Greece and Costa Rica. We will also use a portion of this 10% to support the Social Justice Causes that we partner with.

Check back soon as we will have additional information on the allocation of IMAGINE funds received over the past five years, as well as examples of the different lending scenarios that we believe will be available to us and how each may impact our project.

Above all, please pray about your participation in IMAGINE in 2009. If we all participate, we can break ground soon and move into the next chapter that God has for Celebration Church.