Community Bible Church celebrates missions

Marti and Christine Boote, Jocelyn Boote’s parents, receive a $3333 check for Trinity Aviation Mission (where Jocelyn is a student) from Alan Derheim,

submitted by Community Bible Church

Sunday, June 13th was a landmark celebration at Community Bible Church located at 8400 Sharon Hollow Road. The church family celebrated the largest one-time investment in missions in their church history. The focus of the project, called Acts 1:8, was to invest $10,000 in 3 categories: local ministry, U.S. based ministries as well as world missions. The theme of the project was “God has blessed us so that we can bless others.”

Paster Ron Clark commented, “While this past year of ministry in the midst of Covid-19 has been challenging and our in person worship numbers have been down, our financial giving increased to the point where we realized that God wanted us to bless others with our finances.”

Representatives from five different ministries were present to receive gifts totaling $30,000. The missions giving included the following: Manchester Community Resource Center, Trinity Aviation Academy on behalf of a Manchester High School graduate, Jocelyn Boote, Tentmakers Bible Mission based in Lagrange, WY, Women at Risk International located in Wyoming, MI, World Mission based in Grand Rapids, MI and Bridge to Life ministries, a marriage ministry located in Spring Lake, MI.

Following the celebration service, the church family enjoyed a time of fellowship and refreshments to celebrate what God has done.

Laura Seyfried and Lesley Dearhammer from Manchester Community Center receive a $6500 check from Mark VanBogelen

Dick Manion from TentMakers Bible Mission receives a $3333 check from George and Julie Agin

Becky MacDonald from Women at Risk International receives a check for $3333 from James Rauch

Mark Young from World Mission receives a check for $10,000 from Barth Wolf

A representative from Bridge to Life ministries was not present but will participate in a program to be held in Manchester this fall. 

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by Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is an editor, writer and founder of the Manchester Mirror.