CATC Sending | 2023

Sending

Our God is worthy to be worshipped by all peoples.  John Piper famously wrote that missions exist because worship doesn’t. We believe this wholeheartedly and have been overjoyed in this past year to see how God includes us in His mission to see Revelation 7:9 come true. 

The specific highlights from this past year are probably best to think about from an inside-out perspective (Or locally to domestically to globally.)

LOCALLY:
In the past 12 months, we have witnessed striking growth in many of our local ministries.  Our ESL ministry that’s hosted through our For Our City partnership now has well over 100 students enrolled with 40 or so volunteers serving faithfully each Sunday afternoon. In a similar way, our Foster and Adopt Connection support ministry has grown from around 100 people to an expected 175+ for this fall. We also want to celebrate that our CarePortal team of volunteers have met 39 different needs in the community totaling more than $30K worth of impact. 

DOMESTICALLY:
God continues to do marvelous things through our connection to ministry in Utah. King’s Cross Church opened its doors officially in March. That marks the second official church plant sent out from CATC…God is good and He is moving! We were excited to send two teams to help Austin and Monica Glenn as they launched King’s Cross this spring.  We had a team travel to Farmington in October to host an outreach event at Halloween. Whenever we take short-term trips, we are always hopeful that God might just be leading a team member to consider a long-term commitment to the ministry. God did just that in leading Sarah Reed to commit to moving to Farmington this past summer.  We were overjoyed to commission her in June and send her out a new member of King’s Cross. 

We also sent a team of students that faithfully served in helping the King’s Cross crew host their first VBS program in July. Austin was really encouraged to have our students helping KC reach their community’s children with the gospel. 

Finally, we were unexpectedly surprised (in the best way) to see 7 of our young adults travel to California over the summer to attend Radius International’s conference on world missions. They took the initiative on their own to take part in this conference on how the Church is to take part in God’s plan to reach all unreached people groups. 

GLOBALLY:
As a church, we intend to continue to increase our commitment to ministry among the least reached peoples in the world. We have established a couple of new partnerships in the past year to help us better accomplish this and expand our reach as a body. 

Middle East
First, we initiated a partnership with a family (identity not disclosed) that’s ministering to an unreached people group in the Middle East. Through Bible translation work, they are presenting the gospel to people who have never heard the name of Christ.

Sending Our Own

We also started supporting the ministry of one of our own, Carlee Taylor.  Carlee attended CATC in high school and recently graduated Texas A&M.  She is now serving full-time with a mission organization in College Station to help mobilize students to unreached locations around the globe. 

Japan

Over the summer months, we sent a team of 14 to Osaka, Japan. This trip was enlightening for all to be in the midst of the second-largest unreached people group on the globe. Less than 1% of Japanese people know and follow Jesus. We are excited to now have our students planning to travel back to Japan next summer to experience God’s heart for these unique people. 

Germany
Finally, we officially became the sending church for IMB missionaries to Hamburg, Germany.  Scott and Rachel Partridge began attending CATC during their last furlough home and approached our leadership about establishing a connection with CATC would be their official sending church.  We were happy to welcome them into membership and then send them out back to Hamburg over the summer! 

Our God is on a mission and he has been so gracious to include us in that mission! What a joy it is to celebrate what He is doing among us.