“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.’”
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Faith Promise
Faith Promise, a commitment between someone and God, is one of the ways we fund missions here. Learn how you can participate.
Family Promise allows communities to develop comprehensive, holistic solutions for families facing homelessness. Families come when they are in crisis; our approach of coordinated compassion helps them rebuild their lives with new skills and ongoing support.
Gwinnett Community Church will offer our resources and congregation as hosts to families participating in Family Promise various weeks throughout the year.
Leader: Llura Bellinger and Lynda Nelson
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Drop off your donations for the Lawrenceville Co-Op at the church at any time. We deliver the donations monthly. Our goal is 7,000 items per year. The Co-Op is always in need of: canned meats, canned fruits, canned beans, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, jelly, cereals, oatmeal, grits, dry beans. We seek to help those in need in our community and this is one way to touch them in their time of need.
Contact: Cyndi Lunsford
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The Medical Mission Team was formed to help with local missions. We saw the need in our community for medical and dental services and felt we could help. Since 2006 we have hosted a free Medical/Dental clinic to provide medical and dental services to those in our community living under the State poverty level. This clinic has provided a variety of services, including a clothes closet, backpack giveaway as well as other health resources.
Leaders: Llura Bellinger & Carol Beaver
Local missions outreach of GCC, led by our Medical Missions Team We partner with There’s Hope for the Hungry becoming a monthly food distribution site to serve our community through this food drive each second Tuesday of the month. There’s Hope for the Hungry’s passion is evangelism through food distribution. We hope to be able to be a blessing to our local mission field through this food distribution and sharing the gospel.
Food distribution site each 2nd Tuesday! Free food for those in need in our community! 10AM – 1PM
Drive around our campus to Building G and enter there (find parking between Bldg E and G by the playground and basketball court)
Leaders: Llura Bellinger
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The Eberts have served together with Cru since 1995. They relocated to Orlando, FL (from Austin, TX) where Gordon is serving as the Operations Director for Cru. They have served on campus at the University of Texas, the University of North Texas, and in Cru’s regional headquarters in Austin. Gordon grew up in Lilburn, GA and participated in the youth ministry of Gwinnett Community Church as a student.
“We have the amazing privilege of getting to bring the life and love of Christ to this generation of students and faculty! As we engage students with the claims of Christ, build them in their faith, and equip them for a lifetime of ministry, we are trusting God to change lives to change the world. ”
~ Gordon
After serving 20+ years as the founding pastor of Gwinnett Community Church, Dave (and Peggy) launched TeamMates in Ministry, a unique and desperately needed ministry of hospitality and encouragement to pastors and missionary couples.
Their mission is to lavish the love of God on the servants of God, so they can be refreshed to better fulfill the call of God on their lives.
To date, hundreds of ministry couples have been welcomed into their Lilburn home for extended times of rest and renewal. The TeamMates guestbooks are full of testimonies of servants of God returning to their assignments with fresh vision and passion for God, and for their ministry, marriage and life.
Mike McCoy Ministries reaches students in Catholic schools with the message of Faith, Hope, and Encouragement; enabling them to make better decisions in their lives. Mike McCoy’s passion is empowering youth and helping them develop a larger vision for their lives.
Josh and Gina are working with Ambassadors for Christ International, and be based in Sydney, Australia, working with church leaders in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific as well as other parts of the world. Josh, as Regional Coordinator of International Growth, will be training church leaders in Evangelism Shift, focusing on developing believers in their witness for Christ and disciple-making — intentional evangelism and discipleship.
“I see a movement of churches across the world whose people have a culture of living as witnesses in their everyday encounters, journeying with others to faith in Jesus Christ.. …as though God were making His appeal through you."
- 2 Cor 5:20
The Crawfords serve as church planters in the northern Spain cities of Ponferrada and Astorga.
Our support started years ago while they were church planting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
They are now full-time in Astorga, Spain.
Billy and Adrianne Crossan serve with Athletes in Action (AIA), the athletic ministry of Cru. AIA seeks to minister to the people in sport who influence the nation and use sport to help bridge the gap between those inside and outside the church.
The Crossans have served in the Czech Republic since 1999. Billy works as a professor on the sports faculty of Charles University which trains PE teachers, sports managers, and physiotherapists. Additionally, Billy and Adrianne spend their time working with athletes and coaches in the sports of basketball, baseball, and track and field.
David and Kathy North are training church planters as TEAMs church planting coordinators from Spartanburg, South Carolina. They are using their wealth of experience to train the next generation of church planters around the world. This involves discipling young believers and equipping them to win and disciple others.
The motto they champion in every meeting and ministry is “Pass it on!” encouraging the people from their first day as believers to pass on what they are learning.
Pablo and Kusi have such a love and passion for reaching their people in Peru.
Pablo is the President of Runa Simi, the organization our missions teams have partnered with for years.
They are consistently on the go, performing a variety of outreach to their neighbors.
Their ministry consists of radio outreach, audio Bibles, recording dramatizations of Bible stories, distributing Bibles in their native language, and plenty more.
Alex is the Director of Outreach at Bibles for the World, headquartered in Colorado Springs. Bibles For The World’s mission is to be “a catalyst for individual and cultural transformation through Christ and the power of God’s Word.” This means sharing the Good News of God’s love in Christ Jesus by ministering to unreached peoples and the Church and Christian leaders in developing nations. Since unreached peoples are primarily oral learners, Alex’s primary role at BFTW is to use an oral, inductive Bible study method called Simply the Story (STS) to teach and train them. He has trained nationals in Central and South America, Asia, and Europe. The goal is multiplication, not merely addition, which means endeavoring to train nationals to train other nationals.
The Oasis provides rest and restoration for missionaries, pastors and their families by providing a place they can come and rest. Our aim is to prevent burnout among them so that they can continue their ministries in full strength.
Ken and Connie Temple are serving with Faith Global Missions and their home sending church. They have been missionaries to a major unreached Muslim majority people group since 1993. They lived overseas and learned this people group’s language. They are involved now with this people group that is scattered all over the world in evangelism, discipleship, teaching, and training church leaders of this people group. Ken teaches those who are now believers in Christ, in the Bible, theology, hermeneutics, church history, pastoral theology to leaders and other potential leaders to this people group in their heart language. Ken and Connie, have three grown children.
The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to children in need around the world. Through this project, Samaritan’s Purse partners with the local church worldwide to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and make disciples of the nations. We at GCC participate each year by providing shoebox gifts filled with toys, school supplies, and hygiene items, which for many kids, is their first gift ever and gives them a tangible expression of God’s love.
In addition to purchasing items and packing shoeboxes to collect at the church, we at GCC also get to volunteer locally at the Operation Christmas Child Packing center where all the collected boxes from all the churches and individuals in the area are inspected and packed up to be shipped around the world to kids in need. Contact Elbie Ancona for more information or more ways you might help with this ministry at GCC.
mission trips
As a church, we have taken a number of mission trips over the years. Many of these trips involve supporting and working alongside the missionaries we support. These trips involve giving up some of our time and resources to engage the world for Jesus. We seek to bless and support the church around the world and open our eyes to the needs and to God’s global work.
We have partnered with our friends at Runa Simi just outside of Lima, Peru. These trips have included going into the Andes mountains to minister to the people there. We participated in children’s outreach, youth activities, and providing care in the local communities and churches.
We also partnered with Living Hope Community Center just outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Their ministry is to “seek to reach people for Christ, bringing hope and breaking the despair of poverty and disease.” We collaborated with Living Hope to help the poor and needy through a ministry to the homeless, a ministry to those infected with HIV/aids, a ministry to those in impoverished communities through home-based care assistance, outreach to disciple children and teens, and finally an economic empowerment program.
In addition to these trips, we have traveled to Central America, Asia, and Europe to serve with various ministries. Opportunities have included helping churches and missionaries reach their communities and further God’s Kingdom work in those areas.
We offer trips from time to time with various leaders and purposes.
Information will be provided as future opportunities arise.
Contact John Baker for details
