2025 Vision Update
Can you actually believe it's 2025?
Every year our team takes time to pray and talk through our previous goals. 2024 was an exciting year for ministry. Not only are lives being impacted, but we still continue to see growth in almost every area of ministry. After all, our name is Greenhouse Project!
We believe all healthy things grow, thrive and produce fruit. But our desire is to see people growing and thriving through the Gospel of Jesus Christ! In the beginning, we knew God wanted to seek and save souls and see individuals and families transformed. The key for this is families moving into communities and living side by side with those they are influencing. So my wife, Emily, and I bought a house and everything changed. We are on a mission to see that happen in every community in Chester!
As we go forward into 2025, we see that some of our 2024 goals have not been fully completed. So, we are starting over with some previous goals as well as some new goals.
2025 Vision:
⚡️Finalize our Ministry Plan to 2030
⚡️Improve Existing Ministry & Build New Leaders
⚡️Needed Renovations to the 44House (Our Headquarters)
Finalize the 2030 Plan
We have been slowly talking about this for a year or two. It's time for our team to prayerfully seek God and look toward 2030 (can you even imagine 2030?).
This is what we did in 2018 when we launched: we prayed and sought God and gathered the wisdom of council for our five year 2023 plan.
Our first five years – from launching to growing programs and locations – provides a guide of sorts for the future. We can plan from a place of faith and certainty, recounting all the ways God provided at every step since 2018!
From our launch we have had big dreams to be the five most challenging locations in Chester and launch teams into other urban areas. What we know is that we need to hear from the Lord, raise new leaders, and in wisdom develop the ministry plan so we can have the greatest impact possible!
So our Advisory Board will continue to meet, pray, and use our core values to develop our future ministry plans.
Continue and Improve Existing Ministry
Without adding anything else to our plate, we are refining and improving quality with the projects God has called us to do. This means that we think through every aspect of serving and developing systems, all fun things to talk about!
All of our ministries have seen growth. This includes Sunday Fellowship, Discipleship training, Recovery Counseling, Recovery Housing, meetings, Homework Club, and Community Outreach — all part of our DNA and vital for community transformation.
This is good news, as we have learned what we’re good at, and we have developed partnerships with amazing ministries and outreaches around Chester that offer services we do not provide.
To ensure we continue to provide fruitful ministry, we prayerfully seek new partners, donors and volunteers to help! We are always open to refinement, raising up new leaders and improving what we do. Now is the perfect time to join our volunteer team — sign up in under 60 seconds here: Volunteer with us.
Needed Renovation to our Headquarters: 44 House
We have talked about this before, but we are in dire need of new space! In a single week we have up to 50 people for Sunday fellowship, 17 kids for after school homework club, and 15 people for our recovery meetings. Thats a lot of people and we’re meeting in a small house and using every square inch of space available. Right now half of our homework club kids meet on the third floor, while the other half meet on the first floor. We want them to be able to be all together!
When we moved into the 44 House in 2022, we just did the bare minimum so we can use the space. Investing in our community is to provide the correct spaces and place for those valuable interactions to take place. Environments are very important, especially when they are created in the name of Jesus!
SO in 2024 we need to finish the basement at the 44 House, so we can have one room that can hold all of our kids at one time and be used for Children's Church on Sundays (which we haven’t been able to provide yet). We also need to add a bathroom, HVAC system, and fix the basement egress entry.
So be on the lookout for ways for you and your business can volunteer and partner with us to make these renovations a success!
Final Thoughts
Back in 2018 when our Bible Study gathered to pray and dream big around God's Word, I never thought five years later we’d be making impact through multiple houses, three communities, and relationships with hundreds of neighbors. We have come a long way from a God sized dream to a real life-changing ministry.
We have been growing since our launch, not just to have a list of numbers, but in actual real life transformation in Jesus Christ!
We have seen so many things change. Our community has changed, people have been saved and baptized, families have been fed, streets have been cleaned, people have recovered from addiction and the youth are being invested into through education, Bible Stories and activities.
We have been growing, but intended staying small is what we are about. (I know, sounds backwards… but stick with me).
The heart of how we operate is to foster authentic relationships with individuals, to build strong one-on-one connections that minister and help people dream and plan for a new future!
Only one ministry location would need to accommodate many, but two, three or more allows us to be planted in smaller communities and align with our ministry values. These are, being Gospel centered, family focused, long-term minded, and community based.
So, now we are in 2025, we are focused on building the infrastructure to actually do that. To be able to have growing and functioning ministry houses we need new volunteers, new staff and new financial support.
All that to say, we need God’s provision and your continued support to ensure the work of the ministry continues. So here is our 2025 Ministry focus.
Our 2024 was all about refining, investing into people, spaces and places for the Kingdom of God. We can’t do it without God and supporters like you.
Let’s go forward with the expectation that God wants to grow us all this year!