2017 Year End Review Video
Reflecting back on 2017, it is abundantly clear that God is faithful and able to do all things. Life-Giver Church exceeded all expectations we had and God blew our little faith out of the water. 2017 was characterized by new things, it was the year of new birth and foundation laying. Join us on this journey through the highlights of 2017!
BECOMING A REGISTERED CHARITY
We started the year off by sending off our papers to become an official tax-exempt charity. In the mean time we played the waiting game, while planning summer outreach efforts, continuing our discipleship meetings and reaching out to our community. Finally, we received notification that our application had been approved! The excitement was tangible and we quickly began fundraising to launch Sunday Services in the Fall!
GOOD NEWS FOR WINDSOR
As a Church we stepped out in faith and put Jesus on public display for all to see. In June we launched our evangelism strategy/campaign foundation “Good News for Windsor” (which has been rebranded as ‘Good News for You’) We had T-Shirts, pamphlets, cards and other evangelism tools printed and we canvassed the city with the good news of Jesus Christ! We launched the Good News website and a small army of evangelists was equipped to make Jesus known in their everyday life.
PUBLIC GOSPEL, PUBLIC WITNESS
Outdoor Service at the Peace Fountain
On July 16th we gathered at the Peace Fountain to publicly worship Jesus in the open air. It was an amazing time of worship, and many Windsorites heard the Gospel!
Corn Fest Evangelism
Outdoor Service at the Forest Glade Optimist Park
In August, we infiltrated the Corn Fest, passing out hundreds of gospel tracts and talked with 50 or more people face to face about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. With help from our American friends, even the POLICE heard the Gospel.
PUBLIC BAPTISM AT THE BEACH
In a sovereign move of God, we were able to baptize Brian Lebeznick in a spontaneous fashion. On the 23rd of September, at Sand Point Beach in Windsor Ontario, we got into the water, and Brian publicly declared his faith in Jesus Christ, in front of a beach filled with complete strangers. There’s nothing like walking with God!
GOODBYE TO THE MIDDLE EASTERN BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
In September we said good-bye to the Middle Eastern Bible Fellowship on Tuesday nights in preparation for launching Sunday morning worship gatherings. We are so grateful to the Middle Eastern Bible Fellowship for graciously sharing their building with us.
BUILDING COMMUNITY BRIDGES
We continued our annual tradition of blessing the Forest Glade Public School with school supplies. Our relationship has grown stronger with the school and we are excited to see how God will use that in the new year to come!
SUNDAY MORNING LAUNCH SERVICE
On October 1st we officially launched public, Sunday morning worship services at the Forest Glade Arena. It was almost a 2 year journey, but God in His faithfulness has gone before us the whole way. We committed to setting aside the entirety of our launch service offering for church planting and we were able to kick off our church planting fund strong.
CHRISTMAS BLESSING PROJECTS
And finally, we finished strong with our annual Christmas blessing projects. We collected over 500 articles of winter clothing for the Forest Glade Public School, raised over $500 to bless single moms in need during Christmas and collected $755 to bless local Chaplain Rielly McLaren so he can continue ministering to the forgotten and hurting in our city.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We thank everyone who has been a part of this extraordinary year in the life of Life-Giver Church. 2017 was a year of new birth. New ministries, new ideas and new moves. 2018 is sure to be an amazing year of building on the foundation the Lord Jesus has laid for us. Please consider joining our team and helping us push back the kingdom of darkness in 2018!
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