2024

Kidz Zone

During the Right Now building campaign, our Kidz Zone raised $400 to build a stone wall inside our future home at the Kidz Zone check-in area! They really got excited about their future home and gave from their hearts. What a blessing it was to witness!

Student Ministry

DNOW Weekend was an incredible weekend geared around helping students grow as disciples by loving God’s Word. Our students joined together with 8 other youth groups in Gilmer County culminating in over 170 students ( 37 from TOC) at Victory Christian Center for worship, fellowship, Bible study, and fun games. With special guest speaker, Stephen Dervan, we dug into how God has loved us so much to give us the Lógos, and how we should respond by loving God and the Lógos. Further we established if we love God’s Word then we need to build a life of discipline immersing ourselves in the scripture so we can obey. Students were divided into small groups as they stayed in host homes over the course of the weekend. We had volunteers serving in leading small group times, host homes volunteers providing transportation and meals, worship team putting in several hours of rehearsal and moving equipment to help with the weekend. Our 29 volunteers gave so much to make the weekend happen, but it was all worth it to see at least a 12 salvations result including 5 from The Orchard! 

Orchard Guys

Our men's ministry began meeting monthly for breakfast at iHop for a men’s devotional, prayer, and to provide updates from our OG Leadership Team on upcoming plans. Their first breakfast had 28 in attendance. Great start for the OGs!

Celebrate Recovery

One of the BIGGEST nights of the quarter was our 8th anniversary, with 253 in attendance. Spikes this quarter in attendance, resulted in 6 decisions for Christ, 4 rededications plus 16 baptism requests! Receiving a CHIP is a call for celebration at CR. We gave out 22 six months, 19 nine months, 13 one year, 10 eighteen months, 6 two years, 4 three years, 2 four years, 2 six years, 2 eight years, 1 thirteen years, 1 thirty-four years, 1 thirty-five years!

Not only did we update our policies and process to the path to leadership, but we added our apprenticeship program. It's designed to help those wanting to join leadership have a better understanding of what leadership means and to better prepare them to be a successful leader. Leaders put in 86 hours of training between them just this past quarter! We began an online women's step study and a men’s step study meeting. In addition, our Ministry Leader began training Timothy House leaders to lead a step study within their program, tailored to meet the educational level needs and time restraints of their program.  This resulted in the Timothy House men joining us for Sunday services!  

Even though they have 17 leaders, 4 leaders in training, and 73 rotating volunteers each week, the spikes show just how much volunteers are still needed! These serve numbers may seem like a lot already, but did you know Friday night operations are on a larger scale than Sunday mornings? Not only do they need volunteers on First Impressions and Worship teams for the usual Sunday morning stuff, they also offer childcare and cook/serve meals every Friday night as well. Those are just the needs volunteers fulfill. Their leaders run the small groups that take place after the evening worship. So far this year, volunteers served 430 hours! If you've never stopped by Celebrate Recovery, we recommend you do. You might find your calling!

Easter at River Park

You know that old saying, "When God closes a door, He opens another one," well our new location was a HUGE hit! With close to 750 in attendance, we rocked the park with our worship! We saw many new faces, made new friends, and know of at least 3 salvations that morning. The addition of egg cannons really stepped up the egg hunt, shooting over 9,000 eggs on the lawn. Kids, teens and adults enjoyed the morning of worship, games, fellowship and beautiful weather!