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Day 10: Building partnerships with schools

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Our opportunity The Howard-Suamico School District has made a great effort to make mobile computing devices such as iPads and laptops available to the students. However, there are 128 families and 169 students with no in-home Internet  This puts the students at a...

Day 9: Kids learning, growing, connecting

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Our opportunity iConnect is an after school program held on the GBCC campus for kids that need academic support. Adults and high school kids provide one-on-one tutoring and a physical activity on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Currently we average 30-plus kids in the program with a...

Day 8: Living out our faith

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Our opportunity Origins is a seven-week group experience which gives the full spectrum of who Community church is and what we believe. To date, we have had 12 Origin groups representing 168 people who have worked through the curriculum and started to live out the core values of their faith on...

Day 7: Defending the weak and poor

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Our opportunity A total of 881 school children were identified as homeless in  Brown County by the Homeless Liaisons of each school district.   Our direction Psalm 82:3 -- Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the...

Day 6: Striving for deeper faith and connection

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Our opportunity Currently we have 76 families in weekly participation of the Wednesday Night Connect program. Those 76 families represent 103 kids in either childcare or consistent small group time. Our direction Proverbs 22:6 — Start children off on the way they should go, and even...

Day 5: Extending your spiritual family

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Our opportunity In the Green Bay area, moms with young kids face the challenge of finding a place where they can gather for support, to share stories, and make the much needed adult connection while their kids play together without having to pay a fee. Our direction Philippians 2:12 -- Paul...

Day 4: Serving those in need

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Our opportunity Green Bay Community Church provided 132 families with benevolence funds over the past year, from food to gas to other needs. Our direction Matthew 25:40 —The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of...

Day 3: We need each other

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Our opportunity Not including Sunday services, 104 different rooms are reserved this week at Community Church for various events. Depending on the day and week, our campus could host a wedding, funeral, blood drive, election polling place, workshop, conference, children’s class, adult...

Day 2: Sharing the hope of Jesus

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Our opportunity Community Church saw 192 people make a decision to accept Jesus as their Savior last year.   Our direction John 3:16 — For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Our...

Day 1: Identifying with Jesus

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Our opportunity A total of 327 people came forward and were baptized at Green Bay Community Church over the past two years.    Our direction Acts 8:12 — But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they...