• Purchased the land for our future home at 9A & Baymeadows
• Responded to rapid growth through campus facility expansion
• Purchased the Midtown location
• Established a strategic alignment with the brand new high school next door
• Completed the entire pre-construction phase
• Raised and saved millions of dollars

Now, we’re ready to build. We have been diligently positioning ourselves to be good stewards of what God has blessed us with. We will wait on His perfect timing.

So, What’s Next in 2010?

This year, we are so excited and fully committed to building our new home at 9A/Baymeadows! 2010 is a pivotal year for our church. We need your participation in Imagine.  We ask that you prayerfully consider making a one-year financial commitment, over and above your tithe, so that together we can continue to reach people for Christ. Please pray that God will continue to use each of us to reach the lost, hurting, and next generation within our community.

We are setting a goal that will allow us to minimize our debt and make prudent decisions about the best possible financing options. We want to move in with the least amount of debt possible. This year, our 9A financial goal would position us to obtain a loan at 70% of the value of our cash and assets.

We also recognize the growing needs of our campuses. To meet these needs, we have included some specific campus initiatives in our 2010 Imagine goals.

Missions & Outreach

We will continue to sow 10% of our Imagine contributions into areas of missions, social justice and global impact.

Participate

Our story is worth celebrating! Be sure to stop by the Information Center for more Imagine details and specific information how Imagine impacts your campus location.  We need your participation and commitment toward over and above giving. Prayerfully consider your part. You can fill out a pledge card online or at your campus and return it by March 28^th.

In Phase One we will be building our new 3000 seat Sanctuary and our Children’s Environments. Our new facility will expand our ability to show the love of God to the lost and the hurting in Northeast Florida and around the World.

Thank you so much for your faithful giving and sacrifice to IMAGINE!

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Thanks for participating in IMAGINE.

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?

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!

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?

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