Site Specific Initiatives
How will Advancing the Vision funds be used at individual Harbor sites?
Downtown & Uptown Sites
The funds we receive from the Vision Campaign would enable us to focus on these key areas:
- Community Life: We will offer a rich variety of church life events—friendship-building and educational—in order to enrich our community and reach out to our friends, co-workers and neighbors.
- Mercy Ministries: We will strengthen and expand our mercy and justice initiatives in order to bring grace and hope to the poor and oppressed in San Diego and Tijuana, and to demonstrate to all God’s coming kingdom.
- Faith and Work: We will accelerate this exciting new ministry in order to equip Christians and engage non-Christians through discussions about God and work: how to think about work, do it, and be people of integrity in it.
La Jolla-UTC & Mira Mesa Sites
The funds we receive from the Vision Campaign would enable us to focus on these key areas:
- Youth & Families: In the next three years, we are praying that God will enable us to touch hundreds of youth and families in our ministry communities. In 2006, we hired a part-time High School youth pastor who has met more than 200 students, assembled a ministry team and is positioned to lead kids and their families to faith in Christ. In 2007, we added a part-time volunteer Junior High youth pastor who is leading a group of 20 middle school students as well as a ministry team. We would like to increase our financial commitment to these leaders in order to increase the effectiveness of their ministries and our outreach to these students.
- Mercy and Community Service: We are praying that in the next three years God will enable us to establish several significant mercy ministries in the Mira Mesa and La Jolla-UTC areas. We want to add a part-time mercy Director to our staff who can lead us to impact some of the most severe needs and bring healing to broken lives and families.
- Campus Ministry at UCSD: The goal of our campus ministry is to establish college students in a lifestyle of faith that will continue after graduation. To accomplish this goal in our partnership with Little Spark, and to reach more campus ministries, a consistent staff presence at UCSD would be vital.
Carmel Valley & Carlsbad Sites
The funds we receive from the Vision Campaign would enable us to focus on these key areas:
- Increased Staff Support: Because of the high cost of living, our assistant pastors have been raising outside support in order to serve with us at Carmel Valley. Funds from the Vision Campaign will make it possible to increase their support to full-time status much more quickly. This will enable them to devote themselves more fully to their ministries.
- Music and Worship Ministry: The Mershons have been a wonderful asset to our church family, and with increased funds, we would like to further enhance the quality and expression of our music and worship.
- Facility Needs: Increased support will make it possible for us to search for a larger facility that would not only enable us to potentially combine both Carmel Valley services, but also allow us room to grow and further impact our community with the gospel in the San Diego/Carmel Valley area.
Chula Vista Site
The funds we receive from the Vision Campaign would enable us to focus on these key areas:
- Youth Ministry: First, we would like to add a youth director to our staff, preferably bilingual, to develop our ministry to young people at our existing site and to our future site in West Chula Vista that we are planning to launch in the fall of 2008.
- Infrastructure Development: This would include additional part-time staff that would enable us to make our ministry more effective on Sunday mornings, as well as meet more needs within our community during the week. Additional staff would enable us to better care for the people in our congregation as well as lead us in outward-facing ministries.
