When disaster strikes, it turns people’s lives upside down. In a matter of moments, a flood, hurricane, tornado, or manmade crisis can rob someone of everything they’ve worked so hard to build. Lost, lonely, and hopeless, they are searching for help from someone they can trust. Driven by your faith in Christ, you can be […]
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17, ESV) I remember where I was the first time I truly heard and paid attention to this verse. I was in a college gymnasium, surrounded by two thousand other teenagers in southern Mississippi. It
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In early June, 11 Charis churches gathered for the fifth annual Ignite Camp. The camp began in 2021 when four youth pastors came together to create a camp experience for middle school students. The camp has grown from 87 students and four churches to nearly 200 students and 11 churches. “Ignite exists to reach middle
Julia Wood was only 21 years old when the Civil War broke out. Growing up as the eldest daughter of a wealthy landowner in Virginia, she received a classical education and encountered an array of difficult life experiences that God used to craft her into a remarkable woman who loved the Lord, studied the bible,
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FULL-TIME WORSHIP PASTORThrive Church | York, PA OUR STORY & VISIONFounded in 1952, Thrive Church grew from living room meetings to our current home on Newberry Street. For 70 years, we’ve been relevant, relational, and real while sharing the life-changing Gospel message. Recently, God has doubled our church size and we’ve launched our second campus.
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Two years ago Pastor Billy Tweeddale of Oceanview Fellowship in Melbourne, Fla., had an encounter at the South Focus Retreat that led to an ongoing partnership for ministry in the Bahamas. The partnership came out of a series of conversations with Charis pastors connected to churches and ministries in the Caribbean. At the retreat, Pastor
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We are a vibrant, multi-generational community focused on sharing the grace we have been given in Christ Jesus as a part of our call to fulfill The Great Commission. (Matthew 28:19-20). We are prayerfully seeking a full time senior pastor to shepherd and lead our church of approximately 60 attendees and members. In addition to
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In January 2025, a team of people spent a few weeks in Cuba meeting with churches, pastors, and seminary students. The team members were Pastor R and Debbie Greene (former senior pastor Community Grace Church Frederick, Md.), Chaplain James and Elizabeth Schaefer, Ted Offut (International Director of Church Planting with Encompass World Partners), Enrique Sandoval (deacon at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in
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High Level Goals:The overall goals of the Youth Director is to evangelize and disciple the teenagers of GraceChurch through biblical teaching, helping them identify their spiritual gifting, and cultivatingmeaningful relationships with others in the church. Responsibilities:● Planning, organizing, and executing the teaching curriculum for the Student Ministry,including training and equipping others to teach the teenagers.●
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 marked one year of Sunday gatherings for Grace Church Lake Campus in Indian Lake, Ohio. The church celebrated with a special service at Old Field Beach on Indian Lake that included a reflection on the history of the church campus plant, a time of worship, a special honoring of those who
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