8 Team Members: 20 People attended the 11 Weeks: 1^st ALPHA Day Away (Lake Anna Core Team)

Re-Engaging Families to come back to church after Covid-19.

2 Evenings of “Farming Fun” with 50 kids each night!

Preparing the Next Generations for Ministry

City Church worked with five interns in 2022, focused on Alpha, Youth, Kidspace, and Outreach.

One blessing we experienced in leadership this past year at City Church was the calling of 29 deacons to work alongside the City Church team as servant leaders. Inspired by the Biblical example in Acts 6, we asked men and women at City Church to partner with us to lead and serve faithfully at City Church. In addition to working with pastoral team members, the deacons meet every other month to celebrate what God is doing at City Church, wonder how we can lead and serve more faithfully, look into the future together, and pray for God’s direction.

Eight new life groups were added in 2022, bringing the total amount of Life Groups to 29. New and existing groups have been growing as people are re-engaging into a community with others after Covid impacted connecting in groups. We’re prayerful that God will continue raising new leaders for new groups and growth in 2023.

8 Team Members: 20 People attended the 11 Weeks: 1^st ALPHA Day Away (Lake Anna Core Team)

The Emotionally Healthy Discipleship (EHD) series has become a staple for the cohorts City Church offers. Last year, 33 individuals participated in these cohorts, and they will continue to be offered in 2023.

The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible, the text, and surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them through the lens of historical context. There are now 5 BEMA Life Groups working through the scriptures.

GriefShare helps you learn how to walk the journey of grief and be supported on the way. It’s a place where grieving people find healing and hope. In 2022, two 13-week sessions of GriefShare were offered. In total, 25 people of different ages and stages of life participated in our GriefShare sessions. We also hosted “Surviving the Holidays,” a one-day session in November.

In 2022 we put feet to our faith by making a significant change to CityServe. 

Involvement increased tenfold as CityServe moved to Sunday mornings. Hundreds joined us in the spring and fall to serve with our local partners like PACEM, Westhaven, The Laurels, Meals on Wheels, local elementary schools, and many more. We pray we can grow our relationships with these local partners to serve even more frequently.

City Church supports our 14 missionaries sharing the Gospel in our local university campuses and worldwide. In 2022, City Church gave $212K to support our missionaries and missions work overall. City Church’s missionaries are all relationally connected to City Church so that the church can know and be involved in the work that our missionaries are doing daily. 

City Church celebrates some of our local and world mission partners every December. Your generosity supports the following organizations: Habitat for Humanity, Teen Challenge, Bibles for Believers, Your Mission Matters: Mobile Medical Clinic, and Loaves and Fishes. City Chur ch received $44.5K to support the Big Give in 2022. 

Our welcome team plays a vital role in the ministry of City Church as most people decide if a church fits them within the first 5 minutes of arriving at the church. 15 Team members serve every Sunday. That’s one team member for every 30 church attendees!

30 people on the Welcome Team

30 people on the Worship Team

Dedicated and talented team members serve and lead worship in all three services.

New songs for the year include:

• Magnificent Trinity
• I Thank God
• I Speak Jesus
• A Thousand Hallelujahs
• Won’t Stop Now

The new Reach Youth worship team started with three youth students and counting in 2022.

As of March 6^th of 2022, all Kidspace (infants – 5^th Graders) was available in person. On March 27^th, the 1^st-5^th graders began meeting at Harvest church’s (formerly Covenant) gym. At the end of the year, 58 kids attended, and 20 adult workers served weekly. 58 people serve on the Kidspace Team throughout the month. 

VBS in July engaged 55 kids each of the two nights with the help of 20 adults and 17 youth members involved in serving the kids.

Kidspace kept reinventing what was offered for children in 2022 as we re-engaged families as
the season of Covid-19 was lifting. Kidspace Live was an online kids’ lesson provided to an
average of 89 viewers each week from March 2020 until May 2023.

30 students attend youth night each week. Trips included outings to Busch Gardens, Putt Putt, and a Corn Maize. The interns allowed students to come for Fun Nights over the summer. The back-to-school BLAST event had 90 students involved. The youth raised over $500 for refugees by doing a car wash at City Serve. 17 Students served with VBS (see pic below), and high school devotionals were held for the girls and guys by the interns over the summer.

The Hospitality Team shared great fellowship and made new connections and friends at our many events throughout 2022! We hosted “Under the Tent” events, luncheons, dinners, and “focused” events.

Missions Luncheon
Donut Days for College Students
Young Adults Luncheon
Maundy Thursday Dinner
Celebrated Nurse’s Week
Popsicle Sunday’s
Kona Ice High School Graduation Celebration
Teacher’s Week
Seniors, Retirees, and Empty Nestor’s Dinner
Ice Cream Sunday
Uniform Personnel Day
End of Summer Kona Ice Day
Back to School Donut Sunday
Young Couples Lunch
Women’s Christmas Brunch

In 2022, we added to our weekly Wednesday Night Prayer. We started gathering on Mondays from 11am to 1pm. Monday prayer is open to all as a drop-in or entire prayer time. We offered the Living Prayer Cohort to those interested in growing as men and women of prayer. We saw many prayers answered and embraced our conviction that God was calling us to pray continually.

Our core values, Biblically-Based, Spirit-Led, and Relationally-Driven, give shape and substance to our ministry at City Church. As such, we are deeply committed to providing the opportunities and means to help individuals, couples, and families experience spiritual, emotional, and relational health. 

In 2022 eight couples went through a minimum of six weeks of premarital counseling. Additionally, six couples from City Church journeyed through the “Better Love” course that focused on key dimensions of relationship health. 

We continue to offer one-to-one support to individuals who have experienced a significant life-change event/circumstance. There are 12 Stephen Ministers at City Church, and each has journeyed with one or more Care Receivers during their service. We look forward to training new Stephen Ministers in 2023. 

• 17 people serve on the Production Team
• 40 people were involved as presenters in announcement videos
• 100 videos or more produced
• 300 views of each Sunday morning live stream on average
• 9,000 -lumen projector and new screen installed along with a new lighting system