Over the last 12 years, the people of Living Hope have given sacrificially over and above their regular tithes and offerings to LH360, a strategic funding initiative that has allowed us to construct our facility in Piperton, start new churches, train and resource church planters, and fund mission projects around the world.
LH360: Family is the next phase of this initiative, in which we are asking God to do exponentially more through Living Hope, as we take another step of faith with a goal of $1.3 million, a 30% increase from LH360: Multiply. 100% of the funds will go toward three areas of ministry: church planting, adoption, and refugee resettlement.
At Living Hope our vision is to be a church that proclaims and embodies the hope of the gospel by taking responsibility for the lostness and brokenness around us. To this end, the elders are asking everyone who considers themselves part of Living Hope to join us in giving over the next three years to LH360: Family.
Please prayerfully consider how you will be involved in what God is doing through the family of Living Hope.
church planting
From the start, Living Hope has sought to keep our mission squarely on Jesus’ command to make disciples. The logical conclusion of a church that makes disciples is a church that also plants new churches. We continue to play a role in local and global church planting by resourcing, equipping, and training church planters. We do this through a number of relationships and networks, through our partnership with Leaders Collective, and by continually calling our members to consider how we all play a part in God’s global mission by starting new churches.
From its introduction, LH360 has been an integral part of this vision. Throughout the various campaigns, the Living Hope leadership has determined to set aside funds that help us continue to partner with and resource church planting. Through these previous campaigns, Living Hope has been able to assist 15 church plants and over 30 church planting pastors in the work of starting new churches. LH360: Family will provide the resources we need to continue to promote and fulfill our mission to start new churches that will make disciples of all nations.
refugee resettlement
Living Hope has always supported individuals and teams traveling to places around the globe to serve the marginalized and needy; to be the vessels with which the Lord can use to reach the lost and underserved.
Today, marginalized and needy refugees are knocking on our doors in the Memphis area desperately seeking help as they try to settle into a new country, a new city, and a new home.
Our initial focus will be on Afghan refugees resettling to the Memphis area due to the recent collapse of the central government in Afghanistan and the takeover by the terrorist Taliban. Tens of thousands of Afghans are fleeing the country in search of safety and security for themselves and their families. Many of these people are arriving in the United States with nothing more than a backpack which includes one change of clothes and little to no money. They have paltry knowledge of the American culture or language.
Funding from LH360: Family will enable us to provide holistic support to our refugee neighbors - from direct financial and medical assistance, to practical needs like education, employment, and legal services.
adoption & foster care
There are 8,000 children in the foster care system in Tennessee, and 4,500 children in Mississippi. Many are waiting for their forever family, while others need a loving, safe, and supportive foster family to care for them until they can go home to their biological families.
Your support of LH360: Family will allow our church to actively participate in the historic mission of The Church while making a gospel impact on kids, as well as fostering, adoptive and biological parents. We are developing a team of Living Hope Family Members who have personal and professional experience with the foster and adoption system. These friends will serve our church as they help shape this ministry initiative. We hope to use the LH360: Family funds and our time to serve foster families, help adoptive families with the enormous expense associated with adoption, and encourage the church to serve foster and adoptive families in very tangible ways.