Compton Heights Christian Church

Pentecost Special Offering

GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND

It’s all about layers.

God breathing life into dust. Moses leading people out of slavery into freedom. Hagar calling on God to remember God’s covenant.

Layer after layer.

Mary saying yes. Jesus breaking bread. Young people seeing visions. Elders dreaming dreams.

Our ancestors building a movement for wholeness in a fragmented world. Going above and beyond church as it’s always been. Beyond borders and barriers. Beyond us and them. Building layers of community and color, spirituality and vision, justice and joy. Proclaiming the good news that the Spirit is still breathing new life and breaking new bread, and God’s people are still seeing visions and dreaming dreams.

Your participation in the 2025 Pentecost Offering lays down another layer, going above and beyond what’s been done to what God’s spirit is doing next.

Half of the gifts made to this Special Day Offering remain in the region in which they are collected to support its new church movement. The other half goes to support the efforts of New Church Ministry, which trains, equips, and assists emerging and affiliating communities of faith and their leaders across the U.S. and Canada so that they can become movement initiators. Make a gift on June 1 and June 8 to ensure that new places of worship are created, and God’s word is spread far and wide. Be a movement for wholeness in a fragmented world.

Week of Compassion Special Offering

Week of Compassion is more than a week. Week of Compassion is a ministry of the whole Church, serving vulnerable communities throughout the world. Any time and anywhere we respond to a need, we bear witness to the unity of the Lord’s Table, faithfully sharing the gifts that we have received as an expression of Christ’s love. As we work with partners, we represent the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) commitment to unity, allowing our resources and responses to reach farther, growing our impact on a global scale.

The money raised by this special offering goes to those in need in the United States and around the world, below are stories from some of the communities helped by Week of Compassion.

In Ukraine

In the Middle East

In Louisianna

In Sierra Leone and Liberia

In Chicago, Illinois

Reconciliation Ministry 21 days of Prayer

The Reconciliation Ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to calls us practice faithfulness with regard to the elimination of racism, which exists in all manifestations of the church, to discern the presence and nature of racism as sin, to develop strategies to eradicate it, and to work toward racial reconciliation.

Starting with the day we commenorate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s – Reconciliation Minstry invites us into 21 days of Prayer to strengthen us for the work for the journey of reconciliation; repairing and restoring that which separates us from the love and will of God.

Reconciliation Ministry has video reflections you can view, click here.