Hey there! Thanks so much for partnering with us this year in Heart for Home! We're so grateful already for your current generosity in our church, and our prayer is that many will be able to take up this opportunity to be generous in this way. Apart from donations, we can all be praying for these projects - that God will provide and that we'll be wise stewards with what we receive.
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Take some time to take a look at our Heart for Home projects for this year...
We CAN DO THIS!
Training for the Future
Future Student Minister
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Goal: $5,000
Total Raised: $1150
Support and Equip the McCarthys
Goal: $5,000
Total Raised: $425425
Pitt Town has always been, and will continue to be, a training church. We want to raise up the next generation of ministers, preachers, and missionaries. One way to do this is to have a student minister from a bible college come work with us on Sundays to contribute to the ministry and to gain practical experience
As they prepare to leave our church and leave our country next month, we want to support them as a church and help meet their financial needs as they continue their work for the sake of the gospel overseas. As a whole church we’ll CONTINUE to financially support them beyond Heart for Home - and as an individual you might decided to support them in an ongoing way as well.
Turning spaces into places
Safer Spaces
Goal: $5,000
Total Raised: $25
For our Property category this year we’re focusing on making our spaces more and more safe for those who we care for each week. Safer spaces in our buildings for young kids. Safer spaces for our less mobile brothers and sisters. Some examples are installing more windows in our ministry center for better visibility and care. More safety gates around our buildings. Repairing and replacing fences. These kinds of things.
Alleviating the suffering of the Poor
Macarthur Indigenous Church
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Goal: $5,000
Total Raised: $272
'The Sanctuary' Women’s Shelter
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Goal: $5,000
Total Raised: $1020
Macarthur Aboriginal community where the Macarthur Indigenous Church has a focus to “reconcile all people of all nations to God through Christ. Last year we spoke as a church about our heart for seeing indigenous Australians come to know Jesus as Lord. And this is a chance for our treasure to go where our heart is.
‘The Sanctuary’ - which is a Domestic Violence Women’s Shelter located in Castle Hill that provides safe, temporary, and supported shelter, for up to 3 months, for women and their children who are escaping homelessness and/or domestic violence.
In God’s vision for marriage, there’s NO place for abuse of any kind - and so we want to play our part as a church to support those who find themselves in those kinds of homes.
Thank You!
What happens if we don’t reach our targets?
Different projects will mean different things.
For our Poverty projects to help the poor & needy, whatever we receive we’ll send on to those organisations. We’ll do this even if we don’t reach our targets.
For our People and Property projects if we don’t reach those targets we’ll bank and earmark that money and it will not be spent on anything else. This money has been given to us for a specific cause, so it's important that we don't simply redistribute that money elsewhere.
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The money won't just sit there forever though!
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We've selected these Heart For Home projects because we're aware of these important needs.
What we'll do is simply wait until another year when there is money planned in the budget for those exact items and we’ll use the Heart for Home money then. Of course, individuals are welcome to contribute to these items at any time of the year if they feel particularly passionate about them - however we think it's important to reassure the church that the money that has been given to a particular cause, won't be used for anything else.