Compton Heights Christian Church

Reconciliation Special Offering

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-20

Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 5 invite us to see the world no longer from a human point of view but through the lens of God’s new creation. In Christ, the old order – built on rivalry, suspicion, and estrangement – has been decisively overturned. It is the launching of a new social reality in which divisions are healed and relationships restored

Funds collected by the Reconciliation Ministry Special Offering provide grants to ministries and congregations actively developing and implementing  programs that promote our Church’s Pro-Reconciliation and Anti-Racist identity.  These programs and efforts seek to reveal, re-educate, and remove systemic and structural barriers in our communities that serve to deny the image of God and human thriving based on race.

Your gift to Reconciliation Ministry strengthens our Church’s witness to God’s unending love for all of humanity.  The funds help support pro-reconciliation / anti-racism programs through education, camp and conference, and relationship-building in each expression of our Church. With your generosity, leaders, communities, and our congregations are being equipped to witness to God’s love and justice in all times and in every season.  The time is always ripe to stand up for justice to ensure that all of God’s children are treated equitably.  Thank you for joining us on this journey through your generosity.

2025 Tornado Recovery Effort

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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.