Christmas Gift 2025

Christmas reminds us of how giving our God is. For God so loved . . . He gave! At Christmas, He gave us His only Son. His gift-giving is the reason why we give gifts to each other during this season. It is also the reason why we invite you every Christmas to join us in giving to initiatives that are on God’s heart. The Christmas Gift has two parts: Equipping and Building. This Advent, as we reflect on the extraordinary significance of Jesus’ birth, please join us in celebrating by giving joyfully to one or both parts of the Christmas Gift. If you have children, talk with them about these initiatives. Read and pray over each one and ask God to increase your faith in Him this Christmas season as we engage in worshipful giving.

- Garrett Spitz, Lead Pastor

Jesus came so that we could experience abundant life, and yet there are many around us who struggle to simply get by. We want all people to experience the full life that Jesus has won for them.

After five decades of primarily serving men, the Peninsula Rescue Mission (PRM) has recently opened a 20-bed, Christ-centered, long-term residential program for homeless women in our community. This is more than just a place to sleep and a warm meal. PRM has created a safe space for women to heal, grow, and thrive—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. They are doing this through a 12–18-month residential program that includes biblical counseling, medical and dental care, financial education, job-readiness training, nutrition and exercise support, and personalized goal setting.

This part of the gift will go towards a total pledge of $40,000 over four years to become a permanent sponsor of a room at the home. PRM staff will keep us informed on how to pray for the residents in “our” room and will provide opportunities for our women’s ministry to love and serve them in a variety of ways.

God is on the move on college campuses! Many of our Global Ministry Partners who work in college ministry report encouraging stories about students coming to faith in Jesus. When they would normally share about a student or two coming to faith, they’re now sharing about groups of students coming to faith. More of these students are from unchurched backgrounds and do not have families or home churches that are eager to support their spiritual growth. We want to encourage these students to continue growing in their faith and to consider the unique role they could play in God’s global mission.

This part of the gift will be used by our Global Ministry Partners and College Ministry staff to provide partial scholarships for students to attend CRU’s national winter conference, the CROSS conference, and InterVarsity’s Urbana conference.

The P-Family are Associate Global Ministry Partners who are preparing to move to Central Asia to share the good news with the Silk Road People. While their monthly support needs have been met, there are various one-time costs that come with moving across the world to a new city. We would love to send them well by covering some of these costs.

Another person hoping to be sent soon is Matthew Wissman. Matt grew up at PCC and has volunteered in various capacities and worked on staff as the Assistant Middle School Coordinator with Peninsula Student Ministries. He is in the pipeline to be sent as a Global Ministry Partner with an organization that provides aviation services to more than 1,000 Christian and humanitarian agencies, as well as thousands of isolated global ministry workers and indigenous villagers in the world’s most remote areas. The application and training process has various costs that Matt has been paying out-of-pocket.
This gift would enable us to help cover some of those costs.

This gift will help us to get Global Ministry Partners like these to the people and places that God has called them.

Peninsula Student Ministry (PSM) has been bursting at the seams. So many teens come on Sunday mornings that they have run out of space. One of the primary purposes of our building addition is to provide young people with the space they need to continue welcoming new students and growing. This addition will also create more space for College Ministry and KidzMin to expand their footprint on Sunday mornings.

We expect the building addition to be completed around late January or early February. While we incorporated costs for furniture into the building fund, we would still like to furnish our next generation ministries with helpful amenities that will equip them to use these new spaces well. That will include things like table games (e.g. ping pong and foosball) and folding chairs. Having available and flexible seating helps new guests to know that there is space for them, and being invited to play a game is a great way to bond and build friendships.

Last spring, we broke ground on a two-story addition to the back of our building that will enable us to more effectively serve and minister to the individuals and families that God is bringing to PCC. The addition will provide expanded ministry space for Peninsula Student Ministry (PSM), Home Groups, Discipleship Classes, College Ministry, and KidzMin. In addition to helping more people encounter Jesus in profound ways through the church, this space is also being built in conjunction with Summit Christian Academy and will improve the quality of education offered by this ministry of our church. We believe God has big plans for this new space!

This expansion costs about $4 million and is nearing completion. Summit Christian Academy has committed to paying for at least half of the expansion. In order to cover the other half of the expansion and our existing building debt, our goal with the Next 40 campaign is to raise $3 million. $1,268,396 has been pledged over a three-year period from June 2024-2027 and so far, $925,420 has been received from pledged and non-pledged giving. You can make a one-time gift through the Building portion of this year’s Christmas Gift, or if you’d like to make a pledge for the remainder of the campaign, you can do so by going HERE.