WCCH Challenge Offering

The WCCH Challenge Offering has its roots in a conversation we had with our good friend, Don Fleischman, at Michiana Christian Service Camp in the summer of 2010.  We were discussing the urgent need to offset the effects of rising program costs and the challenge of replacing reductions in church and individual support brought on by a difficult economy.  The idea was to enlist several churches to be Challenge Churches… churches that would pledge a certain amount of money in advance which would be used to challenge other churches to collectively respond by sharing in a special offering.  Our first two Challenge Churches… the Fairland Christian Church in Niles, Michigan and the Angola Christian Church in Angola, Indiana… set a high standard with their challenge and the other churches were quick to respond.  The result was a $30,000+ total offering which has been repeated in following years.
 
Now, each year, two “Challenge Churches” promise to contribute $5,000 as a challenge to the rest of our supporting churches to collectively match their (total) $10,000 contribution.  The resulting offering is a great boost to our WCCH ministry.  The offerings received will be designated to provide a home to children who have no ability to pay, a WCCH core value.  This is essential to our ministry.
 
This year (2019) our Challenge Churches are Fairland Christian Church in Niles, Michigan. The second church is pending.

Will you help us reach our goal? Just write “Challenge Offering” in the Memo and send your check to the Woodburn Christian Children’s Home. Alternatively, you may use our online giving option (click here). We need both churches and individuals who will respond to the challenge and help us reach our goal.  The challenge offering will remain open and contributions to the Challenge Offering will be gladly accepted through the end of the year.

In the future, we will need both Challenge Churches and Responding Churches to sustain this ministry:
A Challenge Church agrees to:

• Contribute $5,000 toward the Challenge Offering during September.
• Be a Challenge Church for a period of two years.

 
A Responding Church (Or Individual):

• Gives a special offering in response to the challenge. The amount may vary but the purpose is to match, collectively, the amount given by the Challenge Churches.
• May send a check to: WCCH, PO Box 459, Woodburn, IN 46797.

 
Would your church like more information about becoming a Challenge Church?  Just call our WCCH Office at 260-632-5551.

“I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel…” ( Philippians 1:4,)