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Together, let’s change lives

Your contribution is more than just a financial gift; it's a catalyst for change in people’s lives. With each donation, you're not only supporting our church but also making a lasting, eternal impact. Thank you for joining us in being intentional neighbors, reflecting Christ across our community and our world.

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Community Outreach

We hope to be known as the best neighbor in town.

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Community Partners

Meet our carefully selected community partners.

Global Impact

Our missionaries reach the unchurched across the world.

Community outreach

We believe in reaching our community where they are, creating impactful experiences that build a bridge back to the local church and ultimately to Jesus.

Serve Day

Whether cooking food for those in need or doing yard work for a single mom, we get our hands dirty to serve our community.

Music on Main

Each month, we put on the best family-friendly party in town right in the heart of our city. The Grace Zone offers free games and rides and is the perfect place to love on families and invite them to church.

Waterside Movie Night

We sponsor and staff a free movie night in the Waterside community each month. We share the love of Jesus as we pass out snacks and smiles, and invite people back to church that weekend.

Hugs and Smiles Back-to-School Initiative

We believe that every child deserves the supplies they need to make each school year a success and this initiative strives to do just that.

Lakewood Ranch Farmers Market

Every month, thousands flock to the LWR Farmer’s Market, and we're right there in the midst of the action, serving as many as we can with refreshments and engaging kids' activities.

Christmas on Main

Each year, we take over LWR Main Street, throwing the biggest festival around. Thousands come to enjoy the festivities and then attend a candlelight service where they hear the good news of Jesus.

Community partners

Carefully selected for their alignment with our mission, our team of eight community partners were handpicked to maximize the transformative influence we collectively bring to our community.

Youth for Christ

Youth for Christ creates a safe place for unchurched middle and high schoolers to foster growth and camaraderie while empowering them through scholarships, life-changing summer camps, and a nurturing atmosphere to learn about Jesus.

Selah Freedom

Selah Freedom is a safe house for sex trafficking survivors. They offer refuge, providing food, secure housing, and essential necessities, helping survivors reclaim their lives and build their relationship with Christ.

Solve Maternity Home

With two home here locally, Solve Maternity Home ensures single pregnant women are cared for with medical assistance, joyful baby showers, housing, and nourishing meals, fostering a safe and supportive environment.

Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center

SMPC walks alongside women who choose life, guiding them through a year of transformative discipleship. From celebratory graduation parties to grocery gift cards to thoughtful Christmas gifts, we provide needed support.

Care Portal

Care Portal helps struggling parents in danger of losing their children with the resources they need to overcome their challenges and keep their families together, meeting their real, tangible needs and connecting them with the local church in the process.

Better Together

Dedicated to keeping children out of foster care, Better Together employs initiatives like meal trains, parenting resources, childcare options and more to help keep families together.

Needles 2 Nails Discipleship House

An addiction recovery home where men are getting their lives back on track and receiving one-on-one discipleship.

Bridge A Life

Provides comprehensive support for local foster families, encompassing everything from meals and respite childcare to even organizing an exciting Superhero 5k event to raise awareness and funds for greater future ministry.

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Global impact

Scroll through to see the work Grace is doing around the world. Our missionaries are actively working to accomplish our mission to reach the unchurched all over the world.

Ray + Jessica Willett

Papua, New Guinea

The Willetts are planting a church to minister to an unreached people group while helping to run a missionary outpost for Ethnos 360.

David + Cathy Miller

Central Asia

As bible translators, the Millers are not only ensuring access to the bible in the native languages of Central Asia but also creating video-based educational initiatives to foster biblical literacy within the local population.

Ondrej + Milina Franka

Serbia

President of a seminary in Serbia, Ondrej is educating the next generation of church leaders while also overseeing 75 church plants.

Bob + Ann Henriques

Guatemala

Bob and Ann pour into the next generation as they teach at Central American Theological Seminary all while planting churches throughout Guatemala and teaching online courses to pastors in Cuba.

Gurudatt + Nadira Shiwdat

Suriname

The Shiwdats are training teams of local pastors and leaders to continue planting more churches among various people groups including Creole, Guipnese, Javanese, Hindustani, Trio Indian, Abrabroki, Dutch, Srantantongo, and Tobago.

Juan + Rose Cardenas

Philidalphia, PA

The Cardenas have taken their extensive experience ministering and church planting among Muslims in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and are now reaching Muslim refugees in Philadelphia through their center called, The Haven.

Becky + Juno Llamado

Philippines

The Llamados are meeting many medical needs through their clinic and have also seen 237 house churches planted in the Philippines over the past few years as over 2,300 people have come to know Jesus.