Hurricane Helene Response

We will be partnering with the South Central Ohio District Church of the Nazarene to respond to the needs.
Here is a letter created by their Director, Jerry Carpenter. 
 

Dear Nazarene Disaster Response Team,

Hurricane Helene has caused extensive damage in four states: Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and East Tennessee. Please keep reading if you would like to know how you can respond.

Here are the emerging details:

  • Florida, East Tennessee and parts of Georgia have extensive damage.
  • Western North Carolina, the mountainous area, was hit the hardest by this storm.  
  • The South Central Ohio District Nazarene Disaster Response will focus on North Carolina.   
  • The South Central Ohio District Nazarene Disaster Response Director, Jerry Carpenter, is communicating directly with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries as they assess the damage and put together a response plan.
  • Emergency disaster response teams are NOT allowed into any location at this time. Many locations are restricted by the authorities. Roads are washed out; power lines are down and water and sewage systems have been destroyed. Authorities are still clearing the roadways, searching for lost people. As in so many disaster response situations, outside teams who come too early would only make matters worse, rather than better at this point.
  • Nazarene Compassionate Ministry teams are assessing damage and establishing partnerships to provide adequate, safe housing for work teams as well as partnerships with local ministries to work alongside.   
  • The South Central Ohio Nazarene Disaster Response Team are tentatively planning Mission Trip Weeks for Nov. 10-17, ‘24 & Dec 14-21, ’24.  
  • Local Churches and Nazarene Districts from the area can coordinate their trips with Pastor Jerry Carpenter (nazpastorjc@icloud.com)  (740) 804-2224. When adequate facilities to host teams are available we will move forward with finalizing plans.
  • Please use the attached pre-registration form that you should use to register for one of these trips. Please complete the form and return it to Jerry Carpenter at: nazpastorjc@icloud.com.    
  • Teams and team members from outside the South Central Ohio District are welcome. Simply send in this registration form: (Click Here).
  • All forms should be sent via email to:
    Pastor Jerry Carpenter;  nazpastorjc@icloud.com. 
    Questions? Call Pastor Jerry Carpenter, (740) 804-2224.

Skilled & Unskilled Help Needed: We need skilled laborers, including contractors, skilled laborers, electricians, masons, plumbers, and heavy equipment operators.

Laborers under the age of 18 have a letter signed letter from parents and a recommendation letter from your current lead pastor.  Just attach these documents to the pre-registration form enclosed.   

Work Plan: Our current plans are clean up and mucking out homes.  This entails a lot of different type of work.

Transportation:  We will plan to move to our housing/work locations in convoy manner. Access and parking may be limited so the more we can carpool the better.  Do you have a church van you can drive?  We need them too.

More information will follow.  

Better together,

Pastor Jerry Carpenter

South Central Ohio District Nazarene Disaster Response Coordinator

(740) 804-2224, nazpastorjc@icloud.com

 

Registration form: (Click Here)
 

Nazarene Missions International (NMI)

 

The purpose of NMI is to mobilize the Church of the Nazarene in missions through:

  • praying
  • giving
  • educating
  • engaging children and youth
NMI is a direct line for missions in the local church and has often been described as “the face of mission in the local church.” In every sense of the word, NMI is the denomination’s organizational representative, dedicated to the cause of world evangelization. While other departments also support missions, it is the distinctive task of NMI to bring each mission area into the local church in such a vital way that every Nazarene will be glad to be a part of global outreach, spreading the good news of full salvation (holiness) to the ends of the earth. NMI provides the infrastructure, the spiritual dynamic vehicle, whereby the local church is mobilized in mission.
 
 

Get Involved

 

 

Annual Mission Projects

GP responds to needs both locally and around the world! Here’s how you can make a difference:

Crisis Care Kits are packaged, stored, and distributed globally each year before being sent to areas hit by disasters. This could be hurricane, tornado, flooding and more. Whatever the need around the world, the Nazarene Church is ready to respond immediately! By collecting each year, we remain proactive in having supplies ready.

Do your part in making sure students around the world have the supplies they need to succeed. School Pal Paks provide supplies to Nazarene schools all over the world.

Watch for information from your local NMI Council for dates of collection.

Alabaster Offering

 

What is Alabaster Offering?

The Alabaster Offering provides funds for property and buildings around the world. While we understand the church consists of the people of God and not a building, buildings erected for the purpose of ministry help provide a sense of permanence, functionally enhance ministry efforts, and convey an attitude that the Church of the Nazarene intends to “put down roots.” 

 

Alabaster funds are to be used for new churches to:
    •    Purchase a property or church building
    •    Purchase or build a church parsonage
    •    Build a church building
    •    Conversion of a property into a church gathering space
    •    Meet initial costs for renting a church meeting space for a limited period

Alabaster funds may also be used to:
    •    Purchase or build missionary homes
    •    Purchase or build regional or field missions facilities
    •    Build or repurpose buildings on Bible college campuses

At Grace Pointe, we encourage you to save your coins all year long and bring them in for Alabaster Offering.

Faith Promise

My Faith Promise Commitment

 

The “Faith Promise roadmap for supporting Missions”

  • Pray and ask God to help you know the amount you should give on a weekly, monthly, or annual basis throughout the Faith Promise year time frame.
  • Calculate what amount you would have given in 8-10 months, whatever that Faith Promise time frame is.
  • On Faith Promise Sunday submit the amount as your Gift by Faith that God will provide that amount to give over and above your tithe.
  • Grace Pointe sends the WEF in on a monthly basis – this is then used to take care of the Missionary families and their needs around the world.
  • You can give several different ways to fulfill your Faith Promise
      • Mark an envelope with “Faith Promise” and place it in the offering
      • Mail an envelope to the church, specifying its destination to the church office
      • Making a gift online here!
 

“We live by faith, not by sight” — 2 Corinthians 5:7

 

Faith Promise is a commitment made in Faith between an individual and God.

 

A biblical method used by the Church of the Nazarene for raising financial support for God’s global mission.  A Faith Promise is a commitment made in faith between an individual and God, based on what the person believes God wants him or her to give.  Trusting God’s faithfulness to provide the amount God has ask them to give by Faith to support both Global and local missions.

 

The World Evangelism Fund fuels the Church of the Nazarene’s global mission and is the foundation of a church’s Faith Promise budget.

Community Food Pantry Involvement

 

Grace Pointe partners with these two area food pantries through food donations and volunteer service. Follow the links below for volunteer opportunities and more information.

 

 Shepherd Community Center

Grace Pointe Provides: Canned Vegetables

 

This pantry exists to help end generational poverty on the near east side of Indianapolis.

Shepherd Community Inc. provides many different opportunities to help their neighbors.

Go here to learn more and sign up to serve.

https://shepherdcommunity.org/serve/

 

 

Mary Lee Maier Community Food Pantry

Grace Pointe Provides: Granola Bars

 

This pantry supports the employees and families that have a child in the Avon Community School Corporation.
They have in person shopping every Thursday 5-6 PM during the school year.

We encourage you to sign-up on their website to serve on an upcoming Thursday night.

 

https://www.avon-schools.org/mary-lee-maier-community-pantry