Our Immediate Vision

Proverbs 29:18 says, that where there is no vision, people wander around aimless and without direction. This wandering leads to a useless life and deadening of their spirit, hopes and dreams.

Last night at our Vision Night 2007 I gave specific things that CSF will be doing in the next 16 months. Here is a quick look. You can also go online and listen to it in a day or two.

It is our heart and passion to accomplish these things by our 10 year anniversary in January 2009.

We are starting now and will have a full spectrum of classes and seminars offered at CSF on Wednesday nights. THRIVE will offer everything from Connect 101, 201, How to study your Bible, New Testament Survey, 10-10-80 financial basics, apologetics, parenting classes, and much more. Our goal is to have a multitude of classes offered through out the school calendar year. Classes will range from 3-8 weeks.

We are launching our Public School Impact Ministry. Teams of volunteers will be trained and certified to go into our public schools and volunteer in as many ways as one can imagine. Our public schools need Christian people to go into them with a servants heart and serve the teachers, administration and students. Trust me....the harvest is full and in today's Christian culture, the workers are few! Not anymore!

We are launching our Community Impact Ministry. These volunteers will be trained and certified if needed, so that they can go into our local fire departments, police stations, jails, hospitals and other such places as chaplains, Bible study leaders, care givers and the like. Giving food and clothes to help our community was a good start, but it is time to give volunteer leadership and volunteer pastoral care to these places. The NICU and PICU at our local hospitals are places where families sit for days wondering if their kids will survive. (trust me...I have been there) We want to put a team of volunteers in these places to help these folks in their real time of need.

We will plant a new church somewhere. We will bring in a church planter in January and have them trained and resourced for a full fledged new church plant to launch on our 10 year anniversary Sunday. This church will have a specific target group in a specific area. Boone, NC? Monroe, NC? Albemarle NC? Not sure yet....we have some things cooking!

We will begin looking, praying and strategically implementing the process for an extension campus. We have many people who love CSF and our unique DNA as a Fellowship. However, they have a hard time inviting and bringing their friends WHO ARE NOT CHRISTIANS to CSF because of the 35 - 40 minute drive. We believe technology can help us start a CSF campus in their area.

We have adopted Kevin and Emily Layne as local missionaries as they leave us to go and serve in WVA.

We are starting Divorce Care and Addiction Care groups on our campus.

We are making plans to reduce our debt on our current new building so that we can start the process of expansion. More kids space is needed, athletic fields, office space on site, gymnasium and community use space. This process will start this winter.

Of course....these are just the new things! The next 16 months are going to be great! The question is will you be a part of it Heart and Soul?