During this past Sunday’s service, we got a sneak preview of some of the notable milestones throughout our ministry year. Included in that report was our church treasurer discussing the fact that this upcoming Sunday, you will see evidence of breaking ground on the reconstruction of our parking lot! Our Kids Ministry Director, Kaylee Mys, highlighted just a taste of the many ways God is utilizing Rush Creek Bible Church.

This past year is a remarkable story of stewardship

• This past Easter, Rush Creek experienced our largest ever on-campus church service participation.

• We had our largest enrollment ever this year in AWANA - 155 children with an average of 100-120 each Wednesday!

• We celebrated over 25 children this year who accepted God’s free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ!

• This past ministry year, the Rush Creek campus hosted more ministry efforts and served more people than ever before.

• This past November, Rush Creek embarked on the Welcome Home! Campaign to replace and enhance campus facilities to better serve our growing community.

• Over the last year, our congregation continues to generously give to our Charis fund (addressing benevolence needs).

• Just recently the congregation was challenged to support children’s ministry projects overseas. That $10,000 goal was exceeded by $5,000.

• Over the past year, more men have given leadership to and participated in men’s ministry than ever before.

• We welcomed 24 new members into our church family this past year.

Hopefully these numbers are encouraging to you. Yet church nor ministry, of course, is really about the numbers. Lives glorifying God are the crucial measure. Still, the numbers we see above can be strong indicators of health, growth, and vibrancy. Those who call Rush Creek their home church have invested more into ministry than ever before!

Still, we are a church in pursuit….

Capital campaigns happen above and beyond regular giving. Often capital campaigns require scaling back for a season in some areas in order to emphasize other areas where financial resources are needed the most. Our financial picture is a story of that reality.

Ministry Fund Update

Our ability to break ground is made possible as a result of efficient stewardship of our Ministry Fund—spending significantly less (roughly 8%) than budgeted. And yet our church giving toward the ministry fund is down even further. So there is a gap—approximately a 1/2 month of income that we need to catch up with and overcome by the end of June (our fiscal year-end).

Capital Campaign Fund Update

Our congregational vote to pursue a capital campaign almost equal in size as our annual budget was indeed a huge step of faith. In terms of our entire goal we are just over half way to our $950,000 goal. This is praiseworthy.

We would be remiss to not pause and thank God for the generosity of this congregation.

It is important to note that our steps to pay down debt at an accelerated rate, as well as the estimated cost of the parking lot, we will need to dip into our cash reserves in order to pay for the parking lot. Another way of saying this is that we still need more in our Capital Campaign Fund to pay for the parking lot invoice that we will receive in June.

If you have been considering giving to the ministry efforts here at Rush Creek, or even giving to a greater extent for the Ministry Fund and/or Capital Campaign Fund, would you prayerfully consider helping close those gaps.

We have taken significant steps of faith together and God continues to be faithful in and through his people here at Rush Creek. Thank you for being a faithful steward.

70,000 Prior year generous giving applied to the campaign

165,871 Unpledged giving toward the campaign

221,570 Pledged giving

117,685 Pledged giving not yet received

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$575,126 Committed to the Welcome Home! Campaign

If you have pledged and are able to accelerate your giving, our goal would be to have another $150,000 in our capital campaign account so we don’t need to “borrow” from ourselves when the bill comes due in June.

If you haven’t yet invested in the Welcome Home! Campaign, it is one way that we can strive together to excel in the grace of giving. By the end of our campaign we are praying for 185 individuals/families to participate financially in this project.  

You may have heard about our pastors enjoying a “water feature” on the property. Well, that may soon disappear so check it out while you still can!