Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community
2017 BUDGET
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Our Finance Team has created this narrative budget
to help you understand how our expenses bring
the five principles of our church's mission into reality.
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Our Mission
We will be a bridge to Jesus Christ by participating in communion,
welcoming all into community, listening and having compassion, growing in our faith and sharing
Christ’s story with the community of the South Side, the surrounding neighborhoods, and the
world.
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| Our Mission In Action
Below are highlights from each of our five areas of ministry.
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Communion
is the heartbeat of our community. We
participate in communion every Sunday when we gather for worship. Your
financial support provides the space for us to gather, the staff that plan and
lead worship, the kitchen where dozens of volunteers cook lunch, brew coffee,
and wash dishes, and the utilities that keep our space comfortable. But
communion is more than a worship gathering. It’s a way of life that permeates
our community where everyone is welcome to the table. |
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We
face the world around us with open arms. We
welcome all into community when we create space for strangers in our
gatherings, in our lives, in our hearts, and even sometimes just in our
building! Your
financial support provides a home base for happenings like The Lofts, The
Table, Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-anon, Game Nights, Trunk-or-Treat, The Lazarus
Fund and the community art-luck. In
this way community grows.
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We
don’t have all the answers to the world’s problems. But
we are moved to action when we take the time to slow down and listen. Your
financial support outfits the homeless ministry with food to take to homeless
camps around the city; provides a space to store and distribute needed supplies
to those who are living outside; and funds efforts like the Compassion Workshop
to give us the confidence to reach out in concern for each other. Because
we’re in this thing together.
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If you’re not growing, you’re dying. An
overstatement? Sure. But growth is life-giving. We grow in our faith when we learn new
things, challenge and encourage each other, and put our faith into action. Your financial contributions support our
staff members who have been working hard this year to produce the weekly
Spiritual Formation Kit, a DIY Bible study. Folks are using it to reflect on the
Scripture passages that inspire our weekly worship gatherings, and thereby
experience connection, interaction, and transformation.
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One
thing we know from Christ’s story: he crossed a lot of boundaries that normally
kept people apart. And
we continue telling that story when we reach across divisions that separate us. Your
financial support enables cross-cultural trips to visit our Christian brothers
and sisters in Chiapas, Mexico and to the Pine Ridge Reservation. And
it helps us to cross a language barrier by providing ASL interpretation and
even ASL classes so that people who are hearing and deaf can talk, pray, and
worship together.
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If you believe we need more
of this in the world,
make your pledge for 2017 here:
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