Local missions and ministry opportunities enable us to use our gifts and talents to touch lives and build God’s Kingdom.  On any given project, we could be sorting donated items at a women’s shelter, singing songs at a senior assisted living facility, delivering meals to needy children, providing emergency relief at the site of a natural disaster or some other life affirming service to someone in need.  This is how we minister in our community.  We have both continuous and one time projects.  The following is a list of some of our local missions partnerships and projects.

Crystal Cove Ministry

Our current outreach ministry program with Crystal Cove is “Backpack Blessings”. We are loving our neighbors in a tangible way. We are trying to provide 150 backpacks to this community for the 2020 Fall school session. we will present these backpacks to families in Crystal Cove on July 25th. Our goal is to have people donate two backpacks per month (March, April, May, June, and July) to meet this goal. Middle and High School packs are the most needed.

What do you need to do? Sign up and bring the prepared backpacks at your earliest convenience, but definitely prior to July 25th. The sign up sheet is available in the church Lobby after Sunday morning service.

What to pack inside? Any of the following:

• Primary journals (Kindergarten only)
• Glue sticks and blue bottles (Elementary school only)
• Big pink erasers (Elementary school only)
• Scissors (Elementary school only – rounded/safety scissors only)
• 3-Subject notebook
• 1-inch binder
• 1.5-inch binder
• 2-inch binder
• Loose leaf notebook paper
• Earbuds
• Red, black and blue pens
• Pencils
• Colored pencils
• Index cards
• Post-it Note pads
• Markers
• Pencil pouches or box
• Pencil top erasers
• Sharpies
• Highlighters in different colors
• Dry erase markers
• 1 college rules subject notebook (MS and HS have six (6) periods)
• Little black and white marbled composition notebooks
• Plastic red, orange, yello, green, and blue folders
• Pocket folders with prongs
• Graph notebook and paper (High School only)
• USB drive (High School only)
• Scientific calculator (High School only)

Pastor to Pastor Training Networks (P2P)

Who We Are

Pastor to Pastor Training Networks or P2P seeks to multiply training movements for pastors and Christian leaders around the world. We do this primarily through a contextual, accessible, and reproducible training process. We disciple pastors in crucial theological and practical disciplines; then equip them to train and disciple other pastors.

Our Process

Our process involves training pastors in twelve two day intensive modules or courses over a one to three year period. Our classes are Theology of God, Theology of Salvation, Theology of the Church, Old Testament, New Testament, Hermeneutics, Applied Church History, Missions/Church Planting, Discipleship, Evangelism, Pastoral Leadership, and Preaching.

We enter a new field by invitation. We coordinate with locals to host a school. We start courses in a local church, hotel, or restaurant. These courses are initially led by Americans, open to all pastors, and free of charge. As courses progress, students grow in enthusiasm regarding the program. They initiate conversations about starting new schools in other areas. We then coach, mentor, and guide as they teach and start new schools.

Our Progress

We have 22 schools led by American pastors in five (5) countries with approximately 1,000 active students, 85% of which are lead pastors. We have at least twice that many schools led by national partners who currently train over 2,000 others. Our students are passionate about the process and desire to pass it on to fellow pastors and leaders.

We currently have schools in the following countries.

· El Salvador

· Honduras

· Peru

· Belarus

· Sierra Leone

We will begin school in additional countries in 2020

· Argentina

· Colombia

· Ecuador

· Guatemala

· Nicaragua

· Costa Rica

· Mexico

· Morocco

We are currently engaged in strategy discussions with multiple churches, the International Mission Board and New Churches Now regarding partnerships in additional countries.

Our Partners include:

• The International Mission Board
• Georgia Baptist Mission Board (formerly Georgia Baptist Convention)
• Lanier Baptist Association
• Etowah Baptist Association
• Roswell Baptist Association
• several churches

Our Heart

Ninty-five percent (95%) of the pastors we train are bi-vocational and do not have prior theological or spiritual training. Eighty percent (80%) of the pastors we train do not have access to such training due to distance, cost, time, logistics, denominational barriers, or academic ability.

Because many pastors worldwide have no access to quality training, they often struggle in a variety of areas:

· Biblical Understanding

· Theological Integrity

· Heresy

· Cults

· Animism and Spiritism

· Legalism

· Hyper-Pentecostalism

· Institutionalism/Catholicism

· Evangelism

· Discipleship

· Missions/Starting Churches

· Leading their Congregations

· Preaching Biblical Messages

· Historical Perspective

· Confidence

· Discouragement

We directly address these areas through biblical, practical, and reproducible teaching.

Testimony from Matt Zell, a missionary in Honduras

“Nathan’s Theology of God class was sad in a way as almost everything was new for these folks. I had teary eyes a couple times as the pastors shared things like they didn’t know that God was everywhere at the same time, or that God was outside of time. Some didn’t know that all three persons of the Trinity are fully and equally God. They didn’t realize that man was uniquely made in creation, and on and on. Things that a lot of Sunday school kids in the states already know about and for these PASTORS it was new! I don’t question their call but rather see it as yet another proof of the Lord’s using the willing with disregard to qualifications. I guess that should have been apparent when Jesus picked fishermen as His apostles.”

Around the world there are over 9 million Evangelical/Protestant churches of which 90% are led by pastors with no formal theological training.

If every Christian training institution in the world operated at 120%, less than 10% of the world’s pastors would be trained.

Every day 174,000 people become Christians and every year 50,000 new churches open their doors.

We believe training national leaders is the most effective way to increase our mission footprint. Evangelism, discipleship and church planting are all vitally needed throughout the world. Without question we should invest our time and resources in such efforts. We should go and empower others to go. Which will ultimately have the greatest impact? Sharing the gospel or training nationals to share the gospel? Starting churches or training nationals to start churches? Discipling believers or training nationals to disciple believers? The kingdom works through reproduction. That is what P2P is about. We train national leaders to multiply God’s Kingdom.

To learn more P2P, please contact Gary Bulley at garybulley@gmail.com, 678.447.1939.

Or go to our website at www.P2Pnetworks.org.

Living Stones Indian Fellowship

Love Loud also works with our daughter church serving the Indian peoples within our community.  There are opportunities tutoring children and teaching English.