CITIZENS CHRISTMAS 2024
There are many ways to engage in the Advent season with us as a church family. Through a variety of events, special Gatherings, and mercy opportunities, we are eager to prepare our hearts to celebrate the Savior who was born, the promised Messiah who has come to save us!
CHRISTMAS MISSIONS OFFERING
Every year, we take an offering as a church to support the spread of the Gospel in Charlotte and Beyond. This year, rather than having a financial goal, we are hoping for 100% of our church to participate in giving.
We invite you to participate in 2 ways:
(1) Give to Citizens Church.
We believe financial generosity should start within the local church, so this is the first step of this year’s Christmas Missions Offering. There’s a few steps we invite you to take here:
If you are not already giving to Citizens, we invite you to start giving.
If you are giving periodically, we invite you to begin regular, recurring donations.
If you have been giving regularly, thank you! This year, we want to invite you to go above and beyond in sacrificial giving.
(2) Give to Support Identity Church in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Citizens Church is a part of a nationwide church planting network called Harbor Network. Harbor Network exists to help launch, lead, and multiply thriving churches that last. One of our partner churches, Identity Church was recently affected by Hurricane Milton, with their entire kids area needing to be renovated and rebuilt after flooding. As a young church plant, this can be quite the set back. We want to come alongside of Identity, as they seek to both rebuild their own space, and to love and serve their neighbors who are recovering after the hurricane as well.
Generosity LIturgy
As you consider generosity in this season (and throughout the year) we invite you to pray this liturgy as a prayer for your own heart of generosity:
Holy Father, there is nothing I have that You have not given me. All I have and am belong to You, bought with the blood of Jesus. To spend everything on myself, and to give without sacrifice, is the way of the world that You cannot honor.
But generosity is the way of those who call Christ their Lord; who love Him with free hearts and serve Him with renewed minds. Who withstand the delusion of riches that chokes the word; Whose hearts are in your kingdom and not in the systems of the world.
I am determined to increase in generosity until it can be said that there is no needy person among us. I am determined to be trustworthy with such a little thing as money that You may trust me with true riches.
Above all, I am determined to be generous because You, Father, are generous. It is the delight of Your daughters and sons to share Your traits, and to show what You are like to all the world.
Amen.
CHRISTMAS CALENDAR
We have some special events happening over the course of the next month, and we’d love to see you there! Click the links below for more information and to register:
