About GCF’s CONNECT Ministry

Connect is the servant-evangelism ministry of Grace Christian Fellowship in which we are striving to connect our local community to Christ and his church through acts of service. God has not called us to just tell the Gospel, he has also called us to show the Gospel. Connect strives to do both – telling & showing the Gospel of Christ to our community.

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Connect Purpose & Vision

Scripture's Call to Love & Serve Others

 

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,  I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. ~ Matthew 25:35-36

Community Outreach – Safe Communities Begin in the Home

Saturday, September 12^th

The goal of Safe Communities Begin in the Home is to promote a safe, stable, and healthy community by providing parents with the needed resources to create safe, stable, and healthy homes. We will be offering classes dealing with safety tips and wide array parental topics. This is a free event for the community put on by many of our local public service agencies and businesses. So far Pinellas County Schools, Largo Fire Department, Clearwater Fire Department, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, Largo Police Department, Network People, Pregnancy Center of Pinellas, the Heart of Largo, Chick Fil’a (of Largo) and Grace Christian Fellowship have agreed to help. This is not a church (Grace Christian Fellowship) event, it’s a community event which will hopefully be a benefit to the families within our community. The heart and intention behind our involvement with this event is to simply be blessing to our community here in Largo.

The event will be from 10:00am to 12:30pm. Parents will be able to choose from a list of classes; the most they will be able to attend is three. The classes will be 45 minutes long. Here are some of the classes being offered:

• Basic First Aid and CPR for the Home
• A Parent’s Guide to Protecting Our Children from Sexual Predators
• Making the Internet a Safer Place
• Help, My Child is Rebelling!
• Communicating and Building Relationship with Your Teen
• Anger Management and Conflict Resolution in the Home
• Drug and Alcohol Prevention
• Tips for Making Your Home Safe and Secure
• Developing Healthy Food habits
• …and more.

We need help getting the word out and we need help the actual event. Please e-mail Pastor Heath if you are interesting in helping!

Pinellas Hope – Homeless Mininstry

 

Tuesday Night Bible Study at Pinellas Hope

We currently lead a Bible study outreach on Tuesday nights from 8:00pm to 9:00pm at Pinellas Hope (a local homeless shelter). Even if you cannot attend each night, we are still encouraging you to help out when you are available.

Perhaps you would like to assist with this outreach but cannot attend any of the Bible studies? Well, we would love to bring some homemade cookies or brownies each night. We could also use some financial donations to buy Bibles and encouraging books for each of the Bible study participants. Please e-mail Pastor Heath if you would like to help out.

Pinellas Hope:

5726 126 Avenue North
Pinellas Park, Florida 33760
Driving directions from GCF

Pregnancy Center and Birth of Family Mentoring

Pregnancy Center

of Pinellas County

And Family Coaching with

Birth of a Family

Family Coaches with Birth of a Family:

Birth of a Family recently contacted us about assisting them with “Family Coaches.” Basically, Birth of a Family works alongside local pregnancy centers to help provide their clients with biblical instruction on marriage and family. “Family Coaches” are trained to accompany clients through the seven part presentation providing role modeling and mentoring. Birth of a Family will meet with us very soon to for a training seminar which should only take a couple hours. This is an incredible ministry opportunity for single and married, young and old…please e-mail Pastor Heath if you are interested! A 7 week Birth of a Family program will begin at the Largo Pregnancy Center in the very near future and “Family Coaches” are needed!

Pregnancy Center Volunteers:

There's a continual opportunity for our church to get involved with Pregnancy Center of Pinellas County. They're need in of counselors, prayer intercessors, and various volunteers. The Center provides, free of charge, all the training necessary to become a Pregnancy Center Counselor. (Both women and men are needed as counselors!) Please prayerfully consider serving with them to make a difference in the lives of young women, men and unborn children within our community.

If you are interested in becoming a counselor (you receive training from the Pregnancy Center) or if you are interested in a prayer meeting for the ministry of the Pregnancy Center please contact our very own Alison Wilkerson - geoaliwil@gmail.com or 727-474-1096 or Pastor Heath.

Other Odds and Ends with the Pregnancy Center:

There are other ways to serve the Pregnancy Center too…

• There's a prayer meeting at the Pregnancy Center every Thursday at 9:30am.
• If there is someone who is able to help with the odd “handyman” project, at the Center, or for one of their clients, we’d appreciate knowing who you are so that you can be called on if and when needed!
• Any teens out there are welcome to volunteer too! For e.g. there is a young girl who comes to the Center to volunteer and gets some kind of school credits as a result. There is always filing of some sort, data entry and other little projects that are available to the teens.

Feel free to contact Alison or Pastor Heath for more ideas and ways to serve with this tremendous ministry making a difference in our community with Christ's love!

Nursing Home Ministry

Oak Manor Nursing Home Ministry

On Sundays, September 13^th and October 11^th we will be going to Oak Manor at 2pm to sing hymns, have prayer time, share the Word, and visit with the residents. If you are interested in finding out more and/or have some outreach ideas please e-mail Pastor Heath or Rebecca Brand (581-9016).

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. ~ James 1 :27