Peninsula Community Chapel

Prayer & Action Goals

Ministry Year 2025-26 Prayer & Action Goals

Why Have Goals?

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 3:14

In his letter to the Philippians, the Apostle Paul declares that even he hasn’t “arrived” yet and still has room to grow. He invites us to adopt the same mentality. This spiritual “pressing on” is what our yearly Prayer & Action Goals are all about. Our church elders have identified several goals for us to pursue as a church this year. Some of these goals will excite you while others may make you say, “Ehh…” And that’s kind of the point!

Your walk with God is a community project. Because of that, some of our goals will relate to things that you are already passionate about. Others will stretch you to take action and pray for an area or topic that you might not have that much interest in at first. That’s the beauty of growing as a community. When we grow together, we help one another to address blind spots and areas that we could use shoring up in. None of us has “arrived” yet, and we all have areas in which we need to grow. By growing together as a church family, we help to ensure that our growth is biblically balanced and nourished by other people’s perspectives and experiences.

If we only pursue goals that we are already excited about, our spiritual growth will be stunted as we simply reinforce our own interests and passions. But when we grow together, we stretch ourselves to explore new areas and press on to know the gospel’s influence in every corner of our lives.

So join us this year in using these goals to guide your prayers and actions. Look for ways to incorporate these goals into your own personal study, your discipling relationships with each other, or in family devotions. We are excited to see how God will use them to help us grow together!

Our Year of Abiding

We don’t use the term “abide” much anymore, so why would we make it our central focus for the year?

The simple answer is because it is a major focus of Jesus’s teaching in John 15. There, Jesus says, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

The modern definition of abide is simply to accept, tolerate, or act in accordance with something, but the biblical usage of the word refers to so much more! Biblically, to abide in Christ means to remain with, dwell in, and maintain an intimate relationship with Jesus. It refers to how we live out our ongoing union with Christ every day.

Abiding in Christ means being deeply connected to Him, like a branch is connected to a vine. This connection is not an abstract theological concept but a real, living, and vital relationship. It means depending upon Jesus for life, strength, and growth; it means maintaining a continuous state of communion with Jesus; and it also means trusting in and turning to God’s Word to shape your deepest desires, thoughts, and actions.

Abiding in Jesus is important because it is how we bear fruit in our lives. God created you to bear fruit. He created you to do good works and to grow in godly character in ways that reflect his life and goodness. Apart from Jesus, our lives will lack fruit, and worse yet, they will produce thorns.

These goals are designed to help us abide in Christ so that we can live lives that bear fruit. If PCC is your church home, we hope you will pursue these goals along with us. Below each goal are several suggestions for how it can be pursued. Feel free to make these goals your own by pursuing them in other creative ways as the Lord leads you.

As a disclaimer, the goals this year recommend many books. Seeing all those titles may overwhelm you, but do not fret! They are a buffet of options to choose from. If you love reading, feel free to read as many as you like. If you’re not a big reader, try to read just one of them. These goals are meant to stretch us, not stress us.

Abiding in Him,
Garrett Spitz
Lead Pastor