2014 in Review
Published January 13, 2015
- Fourth of July Parade – Handed out 3,000 to 4,000 tracts and candy.
- Oikos Evangelism and Discipleship Conference at the Der Dutchman featuring Emeal Zwayne of Living Waters and breakouts by Oikos church members.
- Oikos Retreat – Focus on Jurisdictions in the home, church and government.
- Black Thursday Evangelism – Gave out about 1,000 tracts between Kohl’s and Target.
- Began deacon search.
- Taught through 1 John and continued in the book of Luke. Started the book of Nehemiah.
- 2014 was the year of counseling – most Biblical counseling we have ever done in our 7 years.
- We had our first congregational meeting on a potential building site with hours spent analyzing data and prepping to potentially secure a location. We had a very successful voting process established with some great lessons learned. We confirmed that Columbus is our evangelistic Jerusalem (epicenter of where we want to engage the Lord’s work).
- Red, White and Boom evangelism and street preaching on July 3rd.
- Baptized seven individuals.
- Worked through a book on Deacons by Alexander Strauch.
- Bought an equipment trailer and arranged to store the trailer.
- Continued to contribute significantly to adoption and benevolence.
- We had men volunteer to set up the building each Sunday.
- We spent over $10,000 in Benevolence and Adoption funds, about $3,000 in evangelism, 10% of our budget to missions, about $2,500 for the retreat, $7,000 for two conferences.
