Mary Jo and I wanted to take a moment to personally thank you for your financial support of the mission and ministries of Journey Church during 2011.  This ministry simply would not exist if it were not for the generosity of God’s people. Your faithfulness in your tithes and offerings helped advance the Kingdom of God in a big way here at Journey Church, North East Florida, and around the world.

Here are a few highlights of some of the amazing things we witnessed in 2011:

• There were 61 confirmed first time decisions for Christ.
• There were 56 people who re-dedicated their lives to Christ
• 70 people being baptized.
• Over 650 were distributed Back Packs to needy children in our area.
• Over 250 families received Thanksgiving meals.
• Over 90 families received an amazing Christmas.
• Our Internet Campus reached people around the world with over 100 people per weekend checking out our services.
• We helped plant Reverb Church by sending over 30 people and thousands of dollars to help them with the launch into St. Johns County.
• We sent over 50 volunteers to the Global Day of Prayer
• We performed over 25 community outreaches in Clay and Duval Counties.
• We gave away over $66,000 in missions money to support groups like The Mercy Network, First Coast Women’s Services, The Act’s 29 Network, Seamark Ranch, and many, many more.
• We gave away over $22,000 to needy families within our congregation and the community to help meet basic needs like food or shelter.

We are looking forward to what 2012 will bring as we sense that God wants to continue to expand the reach and vision of the ministries of Journey Church. We are prayerfully asking God to exponentially grow all of our ministries and outreaches and believe 2012 will be the most fruitful year in the life of the ministry.

Please continue to support this vibrant ministry through your time, your service, and your financial contributions.

We simply love and appreciate you and can’t say thank you enough for believing in this ministry. Our prayer is that 2012 will be the best year of your life to date!

In His Service,

Eric and Mary Jo Jaffe

2012 Life Verse: “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” - 2 Peter 3:18

This morning’s one year bible reading included Luke 17:5-6 “The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase or faith.” 6. “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”

Increase our faith – what a great statement. Might we as believers ask the Lord for the same thing. God help us of little faith.

God responds by telling them if they have mustard seed faith. I mean the smallest of the smallest seed faith that God can use that to do powerful things like uproot trees, move mountains, you name it!

I have found that when we activate our faith in the small areas. God tends to show up, that builds our faith and prepares us for the next stage, moving us from mustard seed faith to audacious faith. There are those who get IT right away and go from -0- faith to mountain moving faith, but many of us take those incremental steps. God loves each of us to bring us along at our own pace.

The important part is that we are growing, living out Romans 12:1-2 kind of stuff. Applying our faith to the areas of our life where we look more like the world than like Christ?

Want a victory today? Activate some mustard seed faith.

Where do you need that victory?

Is it in your finances? Well are you giving? tithing? using your resources to further the kingdom? or are your finances firmly entrenched in the things of this world? Pray, ask God for wisdom and courage. Jump in and begin tithing and see if He doesn’t work things out.

How about a sickness? relationship challenge? work issue? big decision?

Pray – ask God to increase your faith – ask Him boldly for things that you know line up with His word! He likes to show you how much He loves you.

Let this be a year of growth in your faith!

Your friends at Journey are praying for you!

I love it when I get emails/facebooks like this – Thank you God for your faithfulness…

“hey pastor eric last week was the first time I pay’d all of my tithes in a long time and the last 3 weeks our hours were slashed to 24 hours and this week after paying tithes we are working overtime. God is great!!!!! thanks for all you do. it seems like every time I hear a sermon at journey its something I need to hear.”

Journey – Trust God – He is faithful.. So faithful.

The Portico is kicking off this Sunday morning at 10:45am on Solomon’s Porch. If you are 18-20 something you will want to be there. Simply show up on the back patio right at the end of 1st service!

2008 is drawing to a close. It has been a year of great turmoil in world financial markets. For many of us finances have been stretched like no time before.

As believers it's an opportunity to retreat, or to trust and press in by continuing to exhibit a lifestyle of giving.

The Gospel of Luke gives us some great words of encouragement on the topic:

Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”   – Luke 6:38

As 2008 draws to a close I want to ask you. Have you been faithful to God in the area of your finances?

If the answer is yes, then praise God, continue to live to give. If the answer is no, prayerfully consider what God would have you do. The close of the year presents us with an opportunity to finish strong in this area of our lives. We can then continue that into 2009 and just watch what God will do.

It's also the last opportunity of the year to get a tax deduction for your 2008 donations as well.

Church, lets finish strong..

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