Prepared to See God Work | FOR 2025
November 2, 2025
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It's time for our annual For Campaign! Over the past eight years you've raised $291,000 for non-profits in our community!
Getting involved is as easy as giving, serving, and sponsoring.
Below you'll find out about each component of our For Campaign.
Give $19.95
This year we're raising money for 3 different organizations.
We're asking everyone at Faith to contribute $19.95 to make a huge difference for these ministries.
Who are we supporting this year?
For more information on each organizations click the boxes below.
The Power Company Kids Club
Three Decades
How does an idea become a movement? It all started when John Gunn prayed the dangerous rayer: “God, how can you use me to reach vulnerable kids in the inner city?” In March of 1993, Pastor John Gunn opened The Power Company Kids Club in Pontiac, Michigan with 23 kids. Since then, thousands of young lives have been transformed by Jesus. Today, our programs are staffed and run by amazing young men and women who grew up in the Power Company over the past 30 years! They oversee a volunteer army who reach more than 1,600 children each week in Detroit and Pontiac.
Two Cities
The Motor City put the world on wheels. But changing times left many residents struggling for survival. Despite gains in the downtown area, Detroit is still overrun with burned-out houses, vacant buildings, and abandoned schools. Where we focus our ministry, 94-percent of children live below the poverty line. Pontiac faces the same challenges of blight, gangs, and generational poverty. Hunger is likewise a concern, with 49-percent of local kids below the poverty line. We believe God has called us to these cities with such rich and diverse histories — to give hope and a future to urban youth
One Goal
Our mission has always been to guide inner city youth toward healthy, successful, sustainable independence. How? By helping at-risk kids discover and develop their strengths and talents. That’s what “empowering children” means. It’s not just about what we do for kids, it’s what they learn to do for themselves. Because we focus on “building champions,” thousands of at-risk kids are graduating from high school, attending college, and becoming godly leaders. It takes years of weekly training and in-home visits, but it’s worth it — the life change impacts countless generations to come.
Click here to find out more about the Power Company Kids Club
Micah 6 Community
In 2011, after graduating from college, several of us wanted to move somewhere that needed good neighbors. Coleman first moved to Detroit where he spent time getting to know local organizations supporting neighborhoods there including Central Detroit Christian and Lisa Johanon who remains a mentor of sorts.
In 2012, doors were opening in Pontiac and by August, we purchased and moved into our house at 32 Newberry. We spent a year listening to our neighbors and asking important questions:
What is going well in this neighborhood?
What isn’t going well?
Where do your kids go to school?
Where do folks work around here?
What is your relationship like with local elected officials? Police?
What is your favorite thing about the neighborhood?
After some time, we learned some of the challenges in my community: lack of access to healthy food, lots of our homeless friends sleeping in vacant houses, there wasn’t much for kids to do when they weren’t in school.
After our year of listening, we set about to tackle some of these issues including growing community gardens, hanging out with neighborhood kids, living with an open door to our homeless friends for showers and a place to cook food.
Our team has changed over time. We’ve added folks, lost folks. We’ve had friends who came and couldn’t handle it and friends that we couldn’t handle. All the while we’ve loved fiercely the people that we’ve met in our community, through whatever issues they’ve faced and we’re seeing it change our community for the better.
My Special Treasure
My Special Treasure CarePoint is located in Chimaltenango City in central Guatemala, approximately 45 km west of Guatemala City. The community is hardworking and resilient, with many families relying on income from the local dump, where they earn approximately $25 a month. They face challenges such as poverty, limited nutritious food, and health risks from their work in the garbage dump. Empowering a child is one of the most personal ways that you can make an impact on global poverty. It is more than providing for their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. When you sponsor a child, you build a relationship that shows that child they are valuable, worth loving, and worth investing in. Through writing letters back and forth with the families and visiting the friendship grows and the love of God is shared.
Your sponsorship is the starting point of a journey that equips vulnerable children, their families, and their communities to create sustainable transformation. When you sponsor a child with HopeChest, you are not just supporting one child — you are helping transform entire communities.
Join us as we wrap up our FOR campaign on Sunday, November 9 by helping many great local organizations packaging much needed supplies.
During the 9:15AM and 11AM service we will pack hygiene kits, snack packs, thank you baskets and much other needed resources for Ellis House, House of Hope, Gifts For All God's Children and First Responders.
We would love to see you stop by and help, families are welcome but we do recommend the littles be at least 7 years old.
You can also help by purchasing some of the items on our Sunday Serve Wish List by clicking the link below.
If you would like to help a child in need this Christmas, sponsor a child by providing Christmas gifts.
Our partnership with Gifts For All God's Children helps families through churches in Detroit, Oxford, and the Upper Peninsula.
My Special Treasure CarePoint is located in Chimaltenango City in central Guatemala, approximately 45 km west of Guatemala City. The community is hardworking and resilient, with many families relying on income from the local dump, where they earn approximately $25 a month. They face challenges such as poverty, limited nutritious food, and health risks from their work in the garbage dump. Empowering a child is one of the most personal ways that you can make an impact on global poverty. It is more than providing for their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. When you sponsor a child, you build a relationship that shows that child they are valuable, worth loving, and worth investing in. Through writing letters back and forth with the families and visiting the friendship grows and the love of God is shared.
Your sponsorship is the starting point of a journey that equips vulnerable children, their families, and their communities to create sustainable transformation. When you sponsor a child with HopeChest, you are not just supporting one child — you are helping transform entire communities.