2024 Mission & Outreach Year-in-Review

Angela Noel - January 23, 2025

2024 Mission & Outreach Year-in-Review: A Year of Growth, Service, and Impact

As we close out 2024, we reflect on a year marked by tremendous growth in both our mission and outreach efforts. Together, we have touched lives both locally and globally, and we are excited to look ahead to even greater things in 2025. Let’s take a look back at the year’s highlights, updates, and all that was accomplished with your faithful support.

Mission Updates & Recognition:

2024 brought us amazing mission trips and missionaries to spread the Gospel:

Mission Trips in 2024: 6 trips (2 National, 2 Local, 2 Global) with a total of 38 missionaries serving across various locations.
Samaritan’s Purse: 2 trips sent 7 missionaries to assist with US Disaster Relief efforts.
Arizona Reservation Ministry (ARM): We sent 26 missionaries on 2 trips to serve in the San Carlos Reservation community.
Philippines: 1 missionary traveled to support the Barner Christian Academy.
Puerto Rico: A team of 4 missionaries made their way to Puerto Rico for outreach and service and LifePoint gained a new missions partner, Dream Center Esperanza.

A highlight of 2024 was our Get the Kids to School Haiti Fundraiser, where we successfully raised $4,200, providing 10 children in Haiti with sponsorship for the year. This effort was a direct result of your generosity and commitment to global outreach.

Our LifePoint Missions Directors and two Mission Leaders attended the Mission Connexion Southwest Conference, growing in crucial skills for mobilizing and leading missionaries within the local church. We also participated in ACCO discussions to strengthen partnerships with neighboring churches in sending out missionaries our mission efforts.

Outreach Updates & Recognition:

2024 has been a year of amazing outreach growth and community involvement. Here are some of the key highlights:

LifeCare Community Service: We were able to fulfill 44 service requests in 2024 with the help of 110 volunteers. TOTAL HOURS OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE 1,175 hours. September stood out as our highest-serving month, with 30 volunteers fulfilling 6 service requests in one day. LifeCare participated in Compassion Queen Creek for the first time this year. This helped to spread this outreach ministry to those who we seek to serve. LifeCare also partnered with LifePoint Lodge for the 3^rd year and YouthLife for the 1^st time this year. These efforts help to raise up the next generation of servant leaders and future missionaries.
The Big Give 2024: Our Christmas in Belize Fundraiser surpassed its goal, raising over $3,000! The Giving Tree supported 150 tags with the Women of the Word ministry owning a percentage of those needs from the Giving Tree, and Operation Christmas Child saw 150 shoeboxes donated to bless children worldwide. We also had $2,900 donated during our Christmas Eve Offering, blessing both our local and global mission partners with an end of the year giving.
Baskets of Blessing: Our second year of this program saw 22 Thanksgiving food baskets delivered to families in need, ensuring a brighter holiday season for many in our community and opportunity to create relationships with those we serve.
Community Picnic: This year’s Community Picnic drew an estimated 350 attendees and 80 volunteers, showing a clear growth in community engagement for this event over the past two years. You can now sign up to serve at this year’s picnic in the LifePoint app.
Compassion Connect QC Outreach Event: A special thank you to Pastor Mike for training Angela, who will be stepping into the leadership role for this event in 2025. We had 20 volunteers that LifePoint led with 13 of them from LifePoint. Registration is now open to serve at this years Compassion QC in the LifePoint app.
Movie on the Lawn: Around 200 kids and about 600 people in all attended this community outreach event. It took over 70 volunteers to make this event a success. Thank you to Pastor Mike for leading these outreach efforts each year.
VBS: Almost 200 kids attended this year. Collected 250 items for Operation Christmas Child, this year’s mission focus. About 20 young souls came to know Jesus as their Savior and many had a great connection with their heavenly Father through the week. To serve all these kids we had over 75 volunteers. Giving thanks again to Pastor Mike for his continual efforts in reaching the youth of the community through these efforts.
Blood Drives: We hosted two successful community blood drives with the help of our mission partner Healing Hands Medical Clinic leading the charge. A total of 59 products were collected, and we’re proud to report that 171 lives were saved as a result of these efforts. Additionally, we had 6 first-time donors who took a step of faith to give the gift of life.
YouthLife returned this year to serve Youth Haven, helping us serve and strengthen this vital local partner. This year they partnered with LifeCare to bridge the gap between teen and adult ministries.
Paladin Team 710: Dan Terlizzi stepped into the role of LP Outreach Leader for Team710, and we held 3 outreach days with 27 volunteers who made a significant impact in our community on the sports field.
Compassion Youth Mentoring: We were thrilled to see Cheryl Silfies step into the LP Liaison role for Compassion Youth Mentoring. Under her leadership, LP will be providing meals for the youth 1-2 times a month to foster relationships and support their ministry.

Looking Ahead:

Mission Partnerships for 2025

We’re excited to announce new global and local partnerships:

New Partners for 2025:
- Global: Puerto Rico – Dream Center Esperanza – Expanding our global reach, Puerto Rico will be a focus of missions in the coming year. Mark your calendars now for the next mission trip in November of 2025.
- Local: Arizona March for Life – We will also be actively participating in this important local event supporting the sanctity of life. Our March date is set for March 15^th.
Continuing Partnerships:
- Global:
  - Philippines – Barner Christian Academy and Father’s House Facility
  - Haiti – Haitian Christian Ministries
  - Belize – Kenneth Welch
  - Indonesia – IndoPartners
  - Mexico – My 360 Project (Seeking a Mission Leader for Mexico Mission Trips)
- National:
  - US Disaster Relief – Samaritan’s Purse
- Local:
  - Compassion Connect – Youth Mentoring & Queen Creek Outreach Event
  - Arizona Reservation Ministry (ARM)
  - Youth Haven
  - Healing Hands Medical Clinic
  - Hope Women’s Center – Coolidge
  - Paladin Sports Outreach & Team710 Outreach Days
  - Vineyard Pregnancy Center

As we look ahead to 2025, we’re excited for the new partnerships and to continue to grow our outreach opportunities that are on the horizon. We are already planning more mission trip opportunities and are excited to share them with you. The future is bright, and we are confident that, with your support and involvement, we will continue to make a profound impact in the lives of those we serve—whether here in our local community or around the world.

Mark 16:15 “He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

Thank you LifePoint, for your unwavering commitment to preaching the gospel to all creations throughout the world through missions and outreach. Let’s continue to be the hands and feet of Jesus in 2025, bringing hope, love, and the gospel to the world!

Matthew 28, 17-20 “And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

To learn more about LifePoint’s Mission and Outreach partners visit: https://lifepointaz.com/missions-and-outreach/

To get involved and join the mission field follow this link to fill out our interest form:

https://lifepointaz.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/67/responses/new

Angela Noel