To:Jubilee Planning Committee, Churches, and Volunteers
As many of you know, our Jubilee planning team has been praying for the direction of God's heart for Jubilee 2012. Since the first event in the fall of 2003, Jubilee has seen the hand of God show its outpouring of His love annually through the one-day event, allowing believers from surrounding churches to come and demonstrate the gospel to people throughout our community. Thousands of believers have joined in over the years to be the hands and feet of Christ. The mission has always been a message of hope to each attendee, that through a simple act of generosity, people’s hearts would be open to the gospel, and the seed of commitment in Christ would be planted. Our mission will continue to press in on that same principle, but it will take a different shape this year in 2012.
Over the past 6-9 months, the Jubilee team members and myself have had a sense that God was taking Jubilee to a new beginning to build a stronger bridge to the community to reach the needs of the people and share the gospel with those that are consumed by life's everyday challenges on an everyday basis. All of our team members have sensed the spirit of God moving in us to make this bold change and give up what we have always done so we can produce more fruit in a different venue for the Kingdom of God. Tonight a unanimous decision was made to shift away from the traditional path of a one-day event for Jubilee and move 100% of our focus and effort towards an ongoing ministry for serving people with a 365-day-a-year vision, which we have called the "Dream Center". So to make it clear, we will NOT be moving forward to have a Jubilee one-day event at the Water Park on September 22, 2012. We are going to recast our nets and begin planning to create a new vision around the Dream Center concept in two weeks at "Reach With Me" location listed above. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm. I will be asking that each team member communicate this message to your churches appropriately. We will also be changing the website for Jubilee to communicate this message as soon as possible. We will communicate that Jubilee is not going away, but we are moving forward with a new vision called the "Dream Center" that will enable us to begin ministering to the needs of the people everyday versus one day a year. The high-level objectives and core mission that are foundational to Jubilee will not change as we recast our vision.
Our leadership team is hoping to gain a broader support of the church community and volunteers as we press forward toward this new vision for Jubilee and the "Dream Center". Please plan on attending the next meeting on August 21st at 6:30 pm at "Reach with Me" as we build the Kingdom together.
In Christ,
Rick Ronchak
NEXT MEETING: AUGUST 21, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at
Reach With Me Community
Center
15322 Galaxie Avenue,
Suite #112
Apple Valley, MN 55124
952-435-6266
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