"... it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even ONE of these little ones should perish."   Matthew 18:14

"For the One" is a 3-year fund-raising capital initiative. Our goal is to increase our general fund giving and raise enough funds to take the next steps towards our new building. Please continue reading for more information....

OUR DESIRE
"We will be ever-growing, ever-reaching this generation  for Christ" has been our commitment for over 33 years because we have always understood that Thunder Mountain Church was not started to serve our preferences, but it was about those whom the Lord would reach through us that no other church is reaching. Our greatest joy has been in knowing that God was using us to increase the population of Heaven and thereby decreasing the population of Hell!

In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father's will that EVEN ONE of these little ones should perish. Matthew 18:14 (NLT)

The larger our church has grown, the greater the temptation to be content with what we have. When you are blessed with much, it is tempting to enjoy the comforts those blessings provide. It is easy to look around and  conclude  we are doing "our share" and that the effort to reach "just" ONE is the responsibly of someone else.
 
For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. Luke 12:48b (NKJV)

OUR GREATEST NEEDS
1. A secure children's facility
2. More seats for more people at our worship gatherings
3. More connection space
4. Greater capacity to host more people at discipleship events

OUR DILEMMA
The projected cost of this project is estimated at $7 million and since the most we are approved to borrow is $5 million we must raise at least $2 million before construction can begin.

In order to qualify to borrow $5 million we must grow our General Fund from $900,000 to $1,250,000 which we believe will happen in the next two years.

WHY BUILD AGAIN?
By building the new 780 seat worship center and finishing our 10 acre campus, we will have a large room for worship and other large community events, more connections space (larger lobby, coffee shop, prayer room), and be able to dedicate our current facilities to the children's ministry.

OUR DREAM
We would love to not only build the Worship Center and connection space but to secure land around us to provide a food pantry, an urgent care center, auto repair facility and ballfields that would make us a resource to our community!

Jesus is  the Hope of the world and the Church is His body. Our community NEEDS us to express the love of Jesus in practical ways so that the thousands who haven't received the good news of Jesus can come to know, love and serve Him!

When our community hears the name "Thunder Mountain Church," we want them  to see a church who is always reaching out with a spirit of generosity to give!

WHAT ABOUT DEBT?
Each time we have borrowed money, we did so with ONE purpose in mind and that is to reach people! In 2008, a church of about 100 committed to borrowing $1.5M and that allowed us to become a church that would touch the lives  of thousands of people a year. Borrowing money in 2018 let us have the new facilities three years earlier and touch the lives of hundreds of children  in the process!

We recently paid off our mortgage and we did this for two reasons: 1) to eliminate  the need to pay interest and 2) we needed to eliminate all debt in order to be able to build again.

CAN I MOVE MY REGULAR GIVING TO "FOR THE ONE"?
Short answer: if everyone did this we would have a building but no ministry. The operational budget funds everything we do and is where our tithes belong. This campaign will build our faith and it must come from money over and above our current giving.

With each capital initiative, we have had an outreach component and our tithe from For the One will go to help CareNet to complete the purchase and furnishing of their new mobile unit that will allow them to provide throughout the county, the services that are available in their office in Sierra Vista.