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The Next Steps

Elevation Family,

For those that were not here in our service last Sunday, I wanted to briefly catch everyone up to speed on our Next Steps as a church family.
 
On Sunday, I shared with you:
●     In mid-December, our current landlord informed us they have found a new tenant to lease our space.
●     This is in compliance of our 1-year lease renewal we signed last August. In that lease both parties agreed to a 90-day notice to vacate the premises if we found a new option or if they found a new tenant. As mentioned, they found a new tenant before we found our new long-term location.
 
What Now?
●     Our Staff and leadership team had been well-prepared for this possibility for a long time now.  As I mentioned last Sunday, I have been looking all over the region in the last year or so for a long-term building asset to manifest that I felt God wanted us to move towards. At one point in the search process, we did have a real possibility at a long-term location and lease, but our Overseers, staff, and I just didn’t feel the Lord was moving us in that direction.
●     For over a year now, Troy Murphy (Lead Pastor at Green Bay Community Church) and his team have consistently offered to take us in if we needed a temporary place to worship while in transition. ●     After much prayer and conversation, we feel God is leading our church to accept this gracious opportunity from Community Church!
 
What This Means?
●     We will hold our last in-house service at our current location on South Oneida, Sunday February 19th.
●     We own several hundred thousand dollars worth of assets; our team met on Monday and developed an action plan to place it in storage.
●     We will be moving out DEBT-FREE! (Our prior landlord removed all debt from our prior construction loan worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!)
●     Some of our storage is being provided rent free by a friend of our church!
●     We will be utilizing Community Church’s Chapel area that seats nearly 300 people, fairly close to our current size.
 
 What’s To Come?
●     Our team met with Pastor Troy and his team this morning, and it was obvious that God knows what He’s doing.
●     In collaborative planning, we all feel confident that we will be able to fulfill the vision and Elevate, Equip, and Engage people in many of the same ways we are currently implementing. Groups, Emerge, Emmaus, Intercessory Prayer, Pastoral Care  and other mid-week ministry trainings like Elevate You, Equip You, and Engage You to name a few.●     We are developing action plans around the expansion of our on-line ministry and look forward to that continued development!
 
When Does This Start?

●     On February 26th, Pastor Troy has invited our whole church to join GBCC at their 10am service to worship God together for one Sunday in the same space.
●     Then, on March 6th, we will make the transition into the GBCC Chapel area with a Sunday weekly service time at 10 am!●     Our eKidz ministry will integrate with Community’s Children’s Ministry during the 10am service time, beginning Feb 26th and then ongoing. Pastor Hope and Mary Meyer are working with their leadership to ensure a smooth transition for our kids. Their heart is that every child feel loved and known, which is our heart as well!!  Our eKidz volunteers will serve alongside Community leaders and volunteers.
 
What To Pray For?
●     The unity of our particular body in this transition! We believe God will show up in so many miraculous ways in you and our body, now and in the future.
●     Plenty of people to get involved with this NEW thing God is doing for those called to our fellowship!
●     The move will continue to be Spirit-empowered, wisdom and excellence at the forefront as we bring action plans together and see them implemented.
●     More people will get saved, healed, delivered and activated into the kingdom of Jesus now more than ever in 2023! In Green Bay, as it is in heaven!
●     We know the Holy Spirit is in this temporary move. We are still seeking the Lord on long-term direction and opportunities to buy or receive a facility. If you hear or see something out there, don’t hesitate to inform our leadership or me about it!
 
 
Like the sermon preached on Christmas Eve “Change of Plans” - sometimes God interrupts our plans to implement His. We know this is His!  We will share more on this Sunday, January 8th and I'll show you some pics of the chapel and facilities we will have the privilege to use!Love ya!

Ryan Kibbe
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FUNDAMENTALS Happened in 2022! 
 
Elevation Church, thank you for your incredible generosity and faithfulness in serving the vision, together! It was a year of FUNDAMENTALS, going back to the basics of love and building on the momentum of 2021 when you captured the selfless spirit of  We-Ology, - “We > Me.”  Once again, WE partnered together to Elevate, Equip, and Engage our community here, there, and everywhere in 2022! Here’s some of the ways you were missional: 
 
Fueled by $30,000 dollars of your generosity in 2022, our church significantly  impacted local, national, and international missions ministries and parachurch . This amount was THE most missional dollars invested by our church ever in one single year in our entire 10-year history! Below are some of them: 
Manna For Life - food pantry 
Going Global - a world-wide missions organization focused on widows, orphans and pastors. This year’s top investments: 
Andaman Islands – widows, orphans, pastors & bible school 
Nepal - widows and orphans Christmas outreach 
Adult Teen Challenge - a new startup coming to Green Bay for addiction/recovery 
Be Still Ministries - a Wisconsin-based pastoral retreat center 
Chi Alpha - an on-campus ministry at UWGB 
Purpose 21 - missionary to Mexico – Gary Batt, longtime friend of EC since day one 
Christian Fellowship International - a network of churches in Southwest United States led by EC Overseer Ron Corzine 
Bethel School of Discipleship – and Shiloh Church under the leadership of EC Overseer Marty Pronovost 
REVELACION CHURCH – New Church plant in Green  Bay 
 
Because Elevation Church EXISTS and from your general tithes and offerings generosity to support our vision and mission, in 2022: 
 
  • Jesus opened doors to preach the gospel and minister at three correctional institutes in the state.  
  •  Fox Lake Correctional 
  • Oshkosh Correctional 
  • Taycheedah Correctional.  
 
  • We offered numerous hands-on, in-person supernatural ministry training, from bootcamps to our summer Living Room sessions, to our current Elevate You, Equip You, and Engage You sessions running this fall through next spring. These environments are designed to ACTIVATE you into a supernatural lifestyle with Jesus. 
  
  • Our digital missional outreach has literally touched the world, as we receive feedback and even testimonies/prayer requests from all over! It was because of your investment here and the efforts of our entire production team on Sundays and throughout the week that our digital world expanded and grew! Online services like our bible studies, At Your Peak leadership videos, Historical Biopics of the Bible, marketing and technology improvements!  Can’t wait to see what happens in 2023! 
 
  • GREAT THINGS happened INSIDE the church. Worship nights. Prophetic activation. Baptisms. From our greeters and ushers, hospitality and security teams, you created a safe and loving Greenhouse environment where healthy people grow!  Don’t forget about Emmaus inner-healing ministry team along with Project Barnabus ministry team who encouraged and impacted many, along with our intercessory prayer and altar ministry teams.  We are thankful for the spiritual and physical growth of our eMerge youth and eKidz ministries and the leaders who love them well. Community built up in our groups and HouseFires initiatives. And of course the Sunday gatherings that you all served together in Him. We saw families TRANSFORMED. Decisions made for Christ. Marriages restored, and a new marriage-enrichment initiative was formed. Emotional hurts and physical bodies touched and healed. Saved. Healed. Delivered. Activated. ALL.YEAR.LONG. 
 
On top of this, we celebrated 10 years in existence this past October and WE SAW Jesus supernaturally FORGIVE a construction loan from our lease build out in 2018 worth HUNDREDS OF  THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS -  DEBT-CANCELLED! I am convinced that favor on us is because this church is missional to reach people and ELEVATE them to a new life in Christ, EQUIP them for His purpose, and ENGAGE culture through the mighty power of God. 
Your support through time, talent, and your treasure is invaluable, allowing our staff and leaders to do what they are called to do, so WE can do all He has called US to do. 
I am so excited to share with you at the beginning of this next year, some of the great things He has in store for us to advance the kingdom here in 2023! For those of you interested in end-of-year giving, just go to this link below or you can give on our Elevation Church Wisconsin app. 
 
www.elevationchurchwi.com/give

We love you!
Ryan and Hope Kibbe 
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