XENOS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. Annual Report. Xenos Christian Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 1

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1 XENOS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP 2017 Aual Report Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 1

2 CONTENTS ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

3 4...MISSIONS 12...EQUIPPING STUDENT MINISTRIES ADULT MINISTRIES SUPPORT SERVICES OPERATIONS 44...CHURCH FINANCES Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 3

4 Durig a four-day medical cliic i Ecuador, doctors, urses ad other voluteers from Xeos helped over 1,700 patiets. MISSIONS Dave Glover, Divisio Coordiator WE PLANT AND BUILD LOCAL CHURCHES THROUGH INDIGENOUS WORKERS AND STRATEGIC PARTNERS The missios divisio exists to advace cross-cultural idigeously led church platig movemets REVIEW As of the ed of 2017, we have 19 fully accredited missioaries servig i four coutries (see chart). I additio, we have 18 people servig as well-wishers 10 o foreig fields ad 8 domestically. Five of our accredited missioary couples were here o home assigmet i I additio, several of the missios staff made field visits to Cambodia, Cote d Ivoire, Ecuador ad Haiti. This provided a uique opportuity to ecourage our miistry parters ad to observe the work God is doig first had. Through our missioaries o the field ad strategic parters, we support 180 idigeous workers. I 2017, approximately $3.3 millio dollars was directed to Xeos Christia Fellowship missios iitiatives. We are icredibly grateful for this outpourig of geerosity. Daiel Rickett, oe of the leadig experts i cross-cultural parterships, provided traiig for the missios staff ad a review of our curret parterships. His iput was extremely helpful ad as a result, we implemeted a umber of chages to our parter vettig process ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

5 SHORT-TERM TRIPS I 2017, we coducted four short-term trips, two to Haiti, oe to Cambodia, ad oe to Ecuador. 86 idividuals had the opportuity to participate ad serve over 2,600 people. Praise God that over 1,000 people heard the gospel ad came ito a persoal relatioship with Christ! I Ecuador, we worked with a local church i Huaquillas to coduct a medical cliic. Durig the four-day cliic, we served over 1,780 people. After the patiets received medical attetio, the leaders i the local church shared the gospel with each patiet. The leaders of the Huaquillas church are diligetly followig-up ad workig to icorporate these ew believers ito home churches. The Cambodia trip cotiues to work closely with the Foutai of Hope (FOH). The team members provided Bible traiig for ew believers ad the FOH staff, ad coducted programs for childre. This trip provides a uique opportuity to work closely ad build relatioships with our miistry parters. The Haiti short-term teams work closely with the Baraka church i Jacmel. The team, alogside our atioal parters, provided medical cliics, youth evagelism, ad pastoral traiig programs. These trips serve as a sigificat catalyst for the church platig efforts of the Baraka church. We pla to coduct four short-term trips i Each will provide uique opportuities to expad our parterships with other idividuals ad groups iterested i church platig. HUMANITARIAN AID AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (HADF) The HADF focuses primarily o domestic miistries workig to meet importat relief ad developmet eeds. For 2017, there were ie differet miistry optios totalig $67,500. We exceeded our goal ad were able to raise over $77,000 for these importat miistries. For more iformatio about the specific miistries, please refer to the HADF web page. I additio, our church raised $14,585 for hurricae relief efforts i the Uited States. ACCREDITED MISSIONARIES COUNTRY NUMBER Cambodia 7 Ethiopia 2 SEAsia 6 Domestic 4 TOTAL 19 Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 5

6 INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FUND (GPF) The GPF focuses o church platig iitiatives itegrated with social services for the poor. Our goal i 2017 was to raise early $529,000 for these miistries. Thaks to the icredible geerosity of our church, we were able to raise over $660,000. Global Partership miistries are fuded i part from the Xeos geeral fud, reflectig our ogoig priority for missios. The GPF supported projects this year i Cambodia, Haiti, SEAsia, Idia, Ethiopia, Ecuador ad the Cote d Ivoire. There are a wide variety of projects ragig from church plater support, health educatio, school fees, feedig programs, equippig resources ad medical cliics. While supportig differet miistries i several coutries, they have oe thig i commo, each are seekig to plat idigeously-led churches. For more iformatio about our parters, please visit the GPF web page. INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Our Global Parters are apostolically gifted idigeous leaders who are multiplyig churches that itegrate eeded social services for the poor ad reach the lost through home church platig. These parters represet 180 idigeous workers ad 1,063 house churches with over 12,000 people attedig. We are icredibly grateful for the work God has doe. CAMBODIA The Mercy Medical Ceter (MMC) based i Phom Peh serves idividuals from every provice i Cambodia. Over 14,000 patiets visited the facility. Alog with the may physical eeds met there was a spiritual impact as well. 286 people prayed to receive Christ. There are te house churches oversee by MMC staff ad over 50 oversee by referrig parters. The MMC spiritual impact team traied 20 of these referrig parters i house church platig. Tim ad Marjie Beadum serve as the director ad partership director respectively. Fially, Scott ad Jeae Arter were approved by World Team ad hope to joi the Beadums as well-wishers i Chris ad Amy Gesler alog with Bill ad Amy Barso oversee the operatio of the Friedship School. Amy is usig her medical backgroud to provide a Fit for School program. The program provides basic health ad hygiee iformatio for both studets ad parets. The team coducted two cliics for the parets of the studets at the school. Over 150 patiets came out with at least 40 expressig iterest i attedig a Bible study. There are 225 studets erolled i the school. A juior high ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

7 cell group was plated brigig the total umber of studet groups to three. Each of these are led by Khmer. The Foutai of Hope completed their third full year of operatio. Each of their programs operates i four provices. Their programs iclude the Life of Hope, Joy of Our Childre, Life with Value ad Our Strog Village. More iformatio about these programs is available o its website. There are 64 cell churches with 620 adults attedig. The Joy of Our Childre program has 115 groups with over 4,100 attedig. Praise God for the way He is usig the Foutai of Hope staff ad programs to reach may people for Christ. SOUTHEAST ASIA (SEASIA) 2017 was aother excellet year of miistry i Southeast Asia with the adult ad youth miistry cotiuig to expad. Today we have a etwork of 192 house churches plated i 16 differet areas of SEAsia with over 2,100 people i attedace. We are also excited to report there are over 190 idigeous people leadig these groups. Please joi us i prayer for protectio of these leaders. The team fiished its third year of the traiig school. The course of study provides both vocatioal ad Biblical traiig. The team also commissioed ad set seve recet graduates to a ew area of SEAsia. Please pray for the workers God has mobilized for the harvest. ETHIOPIA The Lord has brought about icredible growth sice Lou ad Geet Kassa s arrived i the fall of Curretly, there is a etwork of 37 house churches i 13 differet cities. Six church platers ow serve i six differet cities. I additio, there were churches plated i four ew regios with great potetial ad plas i place to expad these works i Lou ad his team traied may ew workers ad leaders. The traiig covered topics such as evagelism, home church leadership, church platig ad Christia growth. There cotiues to be may ope doors for the Gospel ad opportuities to mobilize a large workforce to reach the orth for Christ. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 7

8 HAITI I cojuctio with the short-term trips, traiig sessios were held with MEBSH pastors ad home church leaders. These sessios covered the strategic ad Biblical priority of house church platig. They, alog with the leaders of their deomiatio, are committed to developig a house church platig strategy. To that ed, residet church platers were deployed to three ew areas. Oe of these church platers established multiple house churches i the city of Macary. Curretly there are 27 house churches with early 300 people i attedace. Fially, we cotiue to ivest i traiig. Several leaders atteded classes offered through the Istitute Biblique Lumière (IBL). We pray for these leaders protectio ad that God will use them powerfully. INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE (IGL) Sice 2013, we supported 19 barefoot pastors. I May, we completed the support of the last six pastors. They are ow fully supported by the churches they started. I additio, we completed the third year of our partership with IGL i the regio of Godia. The Godia regio iitiative is a 5-year pla to plat 200 churches ad trai 70 pastors. At the ed of 2017, 35 pastors were traied ad 39 churches have bee plated with over 1,700 members i attedace. We look forward to seeig God build o this foudatio as we eter the fourth year of our partership. COTE D IVOIRE As part of our revised vettig process, we made three trips to the Cote d Ivoire to meet with the leadership of this dyamic church platig movemet. After extesive meetigs ad questios, we came to a good uderstadig of the miistry ad plas for our partership. Based o further study ad iput from a cross-cultural partership expert we will reduce our fiacial commitmet i Victor ad his four area directors oversee a etwork of 60 church platers. We cotiue to see amazig growth i this movemet with over 680 churches plated ad 6,400 people attedig each week. I additio, they plated churches i the eighborig coutries of Ghaa ad Bei. Leadership traiig remais the highest priority. We agree with Victor ad his team that they eed a more systematic approach to house church leadership traiig, specifically, how to teach doctrie ad the meas of growth. Church platers ad ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

9 area directors eed more developed skill i biblical iterpretatio, especially of the doctrially heavy epistles. This will cotiue to be the ceter of our cotributio to the partership. ECUADOR We completed the secod year of our partership with Verbo Church i Ecuador. Together we were able to sed two church platers to the cities of Sata Rosa ad Huaquillas. There are seve house churches i Sata Rosa ad three i Huaquillas. I additio, each church works closely with Compassio Iteratioal to serve the studets i their commuities. We coducted a short-term trip i September to Huaquillas. Durig the four-day medical cliic, we served over 1,700 patiets ad hudreds prayed to receive Christ. The church leadership is followig up o these idividuals with the hope of icorporatig them ito a home church. We pla to retur to Sata Rosa i I additio, to coductig the medical ad detal cliic we will also have a opportuity to provide traiig to the local leadership. WE PLAN TO RETURN TO ECUADOR IN 2018 TO CONDUCT MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINICS AND PROVIDE TRAINING DOMESTIC MISSIONS BHUTANESE/NEPALI MINISTRY The Bhutaese home church ad cetral teachig meetigs saw growth i their overall attedace this year. The cetral teachig meetig averaged 75, which was a 25 percet icrease. Home church attedace icreased as well with over 90 people attedig weekly. Ravi, a key leader i the commuity, joied the leadership team. There are eight home church/cell groups, four adult, two juior high ad two high school groups. I additio, the Geisers provided additioal discipleship ad leadership classes, which are bearig fruit. Praise God for the 13 salvatios they saw i We look forward to seeig how God cotiues to work i Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 9

10 DOMESTIC CHURCH PLANTING Joe ad Eri McCallum cotiued their efforts to plat churches i the smaller commuities surroudig Columbus. After much prayer, they decided to move to Graville i order to be closer to the work o the east side. The prelimiary results of the move are very positive. Overall, they have four groups up ad ruig. There is a Newark college ad adult group, Newark FCA ad a group i West Jefferso. They saw five salvatios this year. INTERNATIONAL STUDENT OUTREACH Doug Patch cotiued his work with missios ad IFI. His task is to establish a coduit for iteratioals to have coectio with quality Christia workers from their first day i Columbus, through their college experiece, ad fially coectig them with atioal disciple-makig believers whe they retur home. As a church, we have sigificat umber of voluteers i this miistry. Doug worked closely with Iteratioal Friedship Ic. (IFI) to develop a list of cotacts from various sedig coutries. I additio to idetifyig potetial cotacts, we will work with established parachurch orgaizatios to determie opportuities for fellowship upo a studet s retur. URBAN CONCERN The primary goal of Urba Cocer ad Harambee Christia School is to equip ad disciple ier city youth to become a ew geeratio of leaders for our commuity ad the church. We do this through providig opportuities for academic excellece ad egagig Bible studies for studets of all ages. We believe that these studets, themselves, will be those best suited for reachig the lost i Columbus urba eighborhoods, as they grow ad develop i their ow relatioship with Christ. Harambee erolled 131 studets, 83% of whom qualified for free or reduced-price luch. 73% scored proficiet or higher o Ohio s stadardized Readig test, ad 83% scored proficiet or higher o the state stadardized Math test. I additio to excellig academically, 28 middle school studets atteded Blowout camp, as did 15 high school aged alumi. 71% of middle school studets participated regularly i weekly small group Bible studies ad discipleship meetigs o Sudays, ad 83% of K-5 studets atteded their weekly Bible study regularly or some of the time. 131 studets regularly heard the gospel as a part of their istructio at Harambee Christia School. 133 studets heard the gospel as a part of Suday juior high small groups, ad approximately 430 elemetary aged studets heard the gospel as a part of our Suday K-5 youth Bible study (Reegade at Harambee). Eight studets prayed to receive Christ durig Suday Bible studies ad seve others did as a part of their time at Harambee School GOALS SHORT-TERM TRIPS We have short-term trips plaed for Cambodia, Haiti, ad Ecuador ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

11 GLOBAL PARTNERS We have four key result areas we pla to focus o for each of our Global Parters. 1. Work with our global parters to defie ad provide equippig resources 2. Complete vettig/assessmet documets for all global parters 3. Improve the fiacial ad church platig reports for all global parters 4. Raise the ecessary fiacial support for each global parter I additio to the above, our parters have set the followig goals: Workig through the spiritual impact team, Mercy Medical Ceter will plat five house churches. The team i Kampog Cham will plat two ew studet cell groups ad oe adult home church. They will coduct at least oe commuity outreach cliic. The Foutai of Hope plas to icrease the umber of cell churches from 64 to 150. I additio, they will expad the childre s groups from 115 to 175. The Ethiopia team will develop 34 ew leaders ad plat 17 ew house churches. The SEAsia team will cotiue with the traiig school ad plas to deploy a team to a ew area. We will coduct at least two short-term trips to Haiti. The goal is to plat a church for every area where we hold a cliic. Idia Gospel League plas to trai a additioal 15 pastors ad plat 35 churches. I Ecuador, they pla to plat oe house church i Peru ad three ew house churches i Sata Rosa. I Cote d Ivoire we will provide additioal traiig for the leadership team. NEPALI MINISTRY Develop additioal equippig ad leadership developmet classes. Recruit additioal juior high cell group workers. DOMESTIC CHURCH PLANTING Develop ew disciplers ad teachers i Newark adult ad studet groups. Istitute measures to reduce studet turover i the Newark group. Coduct a combied retreat with other extra-local church platers. URBAN CONCERN We will cotiue to reach out i the commuity ad through Harambee School to add ew studets the Reegade Bible study. We will work closely with studet miistries ad take measures to improve the follow up ad icorporatio of studets ito middle school cell groups ad high school home churches. We pla to recruit ad eroll at least four Reegade studets for the school year. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 11

12 More tha 3,000 people took a class i EQUIPPING Pat Reeder, Divisio Coordiator THE EQUIPPING DIVISION PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES THAT HELP CHRISTIANS LEARN ABOUT GOD AND SERVE MORE EFFECTIVELY. We offer dozes of classes to prepare our members for leadership ad other forms of Christia service. Home group leaders ca access a wide variety of resources through both our Study Ceter, a full-service ledig library, ad four separates sites that sell recommeded Christia literature. To equip the wider Christia commuity, we offer both a aual coferece, the Xeos Summer Istitute, as well as advaced traiig through our Master s Degree program REVIEW XENOS SUMMER INSTITUTE The theme for the 2017 Xeos Summer Istitute (XSI) was God s Livig Word, featurig Drs. D.A. Carso ad Douglas Stuart, well-kow New Testamet ad Old Testamet scholars respectively. We also featured a video presetatio from Dr. Joh Leox of Oxford Uiversity, famous for debatig leadig atheists (icludig Richard Dawkis ad the late Christopher Hitches). Numerous Xeos staff members ad other pastors from aroud the coutry preseted i our workshops to over 3,000 attedees. Eve after 20 years of orgaizig XSI, we re as eager as ever to host such a erichig ad vital traiig opportuity for churches all over the Uited States ad beyod ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

13 TRINITY MASTER S DEGREE PROGRAM Total registratios were steady this year with a modest icrease amog Xeos studets. Some fluctuatio is to be expected give that distace educatio does ot strictly follow the academic year: studets eter ad leave throughout the year. Durig the 2017 Summer Istitute, Dr. D.A. Carso, a research professor at Triity s mai site i Illiois, offered our aual wrap-aroud course. The class was very wellatteded, just short of our all-time attedace record. CLASSES Total registratios took aother step backwards for a total of 3,021 uique registratios. A close study revealed this is almost etirely due to two factors: itroducig higher stadards to our Studet Miistry s Leadership Traiig Class sequece ad shiftig eeds i Adult Miistries. The Studet Miistry sphere leaders decided that may studets were eterig this special course prematurely. Studet selectio has improved ad completio rates are ow over 90%. Uder Rya Lowery s Adult Miistry leadership, Equippig is attemptig to provide courses that fit more with the growth patter foud i Adult. We do ot view the lowered class registratio tred as problematic give that our elective course attedace has remaied steady. Several ew courses were itroduced i Oe of our ew istructors, Liz Sweet, developed two ew courses o how to be a witess for Jesus Christ i the home. The Director of the Equippig Divisio, Pat Reeder, taught two-part course coverig fiftee weeks o the four gospel accouts of Jesus life ad miistry. Bev DeLashmutt has also developed a course o teachig childre healthy sexuality a much eeded course to help parets avigate the iteret-age. Fially, Jim Leffel revived a old course he used to teach o logic ad reasoig, aptly etitlig it, Critical Reasoig i a Post-Truth Culture. WE HAVE THE LARGEST LENDING LIBRARY OF EVANGELICAL BOOKS AND RESOURCES IN COLUMBUS. STUDY CENTER We have the largest ledig library of evagelical books ad resources i Columbus ad robust digital library of books ad academic jourals. The most sigificat ews for the Study Ceter i 2017 was the exit of Caitli Kleipaste. Caitli s hardworkig attitude ad creativity will be missed. I her place, we ve hired Doug O Malley, who comes to us with a educatio backgroud. Doug has hit the groud ruig. This year was the secod full year of OverDrive, a digital ledig library. Its use has cotiued to grow, addig more checkouts overall. OverDrive checkouts aloe grew 56% from the previous year. The total umber of Study Ceter checkouts grew by 54% sice OverDrive was itroduced i mid Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 13

14 BOOK STORE I 2017 all of the bookstores across four separate Xeos sites uified uder a sigle departmet withi Equippig. The primary purpose was to elimiate redudacy i orderig ad ivetory, ad to streamlie promotios across all veues. We ve itroduced Staff Recommedatios, where top leaders poit members towards their favorite literature. This provides a equippig opportuity for our elders ad sphere leaders to steer readers to premier cotet GOALS XENOS SUMMER INSTITUTE The 2018 Xeos Summer Istitute theme is The God Who Is There. The coferece will feature keyotes from J. Warer Wallace ad Sea McDowell. J. Warer Wallace is a LAPD cold-case homicide detective who writes apologetics literature from the stadpoit of crimial evidece. His books iclude the popular Cold Case Christiaity ad Foresic Faith. Sea McDowell is a assistat professor at Biola Uiversity ad the so of Josh McDowell, also a well-kow Christia apologist. TRINITY MASTER S DEGREE PROGRAM Our partership with Triity has log bee valued for its traiig potetial for our ow leaders. Alog these lies, we have bee recetly attempted to make more couselig courses available at our site. I recet years, our Couselig Departmet has see a spike i couselig sessios, raisig the eed for more couselors. To offer traiig to our couselig staff, we pla to host a couselig class i Sprig of both 2018 ad Also i 2018, pedig approval from Triity s admiistratio, Xeos Director of the Equippig Diviso will teach the aual wrap-aroud course o the topic of the Problem of Evil ad the Bible. CLASSES 2018 will largely be a refiig year. May ew classes were itroduced last year ad our hope is to see these taught agai, i some cases with more class sessios give their popularity. There are two larger scale projects for The first is to itroduce a traiig sequece for people servig i home churches populated with retirees. As Xeos first geeratio ages, the eed for leadership over these groups will ievitably icrease. The secod project ivolves streamliig our Core Course sequece, aligig it closer with the College Miistry s Leadership Traiig Class sequece. This will ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

15 have the dual purpose of stregtheig the cotet of Adult traiig materials as well as simplifyig course structure. STUDY CENTER The Study Ceter is goig to try improve hospitality i The Study Ceter has a large space for study ad several small study rooms. I a effort to icrease usage of this excellet space, we pla to offer free coffee ad play music to improve privacy for metorig sessios will also see the itroductio of a ew role: Media Resource Comptroller (MRC). Each week dozes of teachigs are recorded, but ot all of them are carefully archived ad prepared for distributio. The MRC will help to facilitate ad streamlie this process. BOOK STORE I 2018, we will cotiue to use the Staff Recommedatio system, placig our members i closer cotact with our leaders favorites. We also hope to deploy the iformatio we ve gathered over the past year to better maage our ivetory. O the positive side, this will help us moitor what people buy, eablig us ot oly to reorder those books but also make available similar books. This will also iclude maitaiig a fresh ivetory by removig books that do t sell, ad prevetig the purchase of lower iterest texts i the future. THIS WAS THE SECOND YEAR OF OVERDRIVE, A DIGITAL LENDING LIBRARY, ADDING 56% MORE CHECKOUTS. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 15

16 Studet Miistries Joe Botti, Divisio Coordiator IN 2017 HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS BEGAN A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST. STUDENT MINISTRIES Joe Botti, Divisio Coordiator The Studet Miistries Divisio serves ifats through college age. God has etrusted our church with thousads of kids ad studets who ejoy large fellowship gatherigs (Cetral Teachigs) ad smaller home group fellowship (home churches & cell groups). Combiig all attedace of the various miistries i Studet, the miistry had -0.1% (from 3,440 to 3,438). Although hudreds bega a persoal relatioship with Jesus Christ, retaiig them i a committed walk with Christ was more challegig. Please pray for the leaders i this miistry as they attempt to improve their follow up efforts while developig workers ad leaders from amog the may kids ad studets Christ has give ito their care ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

17 College-High School Miistry Deis McCallum, Director Sphere Leaders: Deis McCallum, Scott Risley, Corad Hilario, James Rochford, Bret McCallum ad Chris Hearty 2017 REVIEW The miistry has bee goig ito a period of much slower growth, both i college ad high school miistry, ad the leadership may eed to adjust to the chagig coditios. Combied high school ad college home church attedace growth was oly 1.2% (from 2,515 to 2,544). This represets a sigificat slow-dow from previous years. Lookig at the miistries separately, college miistry grew by 4.1% (from 1,773 to 1,845) while high school miistry declied by 5.8% (742 to 699). College CT actually grew pretty well, by 7.6 % (from 1,321 to 1,421). A fifth college CT could be eeded i the ear future! As we cotiue to fill out space i the Warehouse, we are also preparig for use of the additioal buildig ext door that we purchased from RDP, which will allow for additioal parkig ad further miistry. 550 people came to Christ betwee the college ad high school miistries this past year! However, it has bee difficult to icorporate a large percetage of them. Pray for their cotiued ivolvemet i fellowship. OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2017 God blessed Epic, our summer camp for high school studets. While attedace at camp declied by 80 studets (760 to 680), the quality of the trip was much improved. I additio, 31 studets came to Christ. College CTs are cotiuig to grow at a high rate. CT participatio moved from 75% i 2016 to 77% i That meas 77 % of studets who go to home church are attedig CT. Several home churches plated i 2017 for a total of 59, up from 55 last year. As oted i 2016, several home churches which were absorbed may folks from the Weigarter sphere, plated i Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 17

18 31 STUDENTS CAME TO CHRIST AT EPIC, OUR SUMMER CAMP FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. The college group also helped cotribute to a adult home church plat i November They collaborated with Vaguard ad Sceic adult home churches. This was oe of our goals from last year ad God accomplished it! This effort took quite a bit of commuicatio ad coordiatio. The umber of high school home churches totals 39, which represets o et growth i platig. However, two ew home churches plated, oe of them i West Jefferso! A few other fledgig groups combied, which proved fruitful as those groups are ow growig ad seeig studets wo to Christ. High school CTs attedace cotiued last year s tred of declie, by 10% from (637 to 573) 380 differet studets received leadership traiig through the college Leadership Traiig Class (LTC), which is a slight icrease over 2016 (375 studets). I additio, two ew LTC class traiees were added to our teachig staff. College Coectio was a icredible success, with 1,933 studets attedig. 14 college leaders trasitioed to the adult miistry this year, while aother 50 were raised up ito leadership. I additio, 44 leaders of the college group were added to the servat team ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

19 Both high school ad college are reachig out to o-xeos studets i their classes ad jobs. We kow this because a high percetage of the miistry is comprised of o-xeos studets, most of whom are o-churched. We kow our studets are sharig their faith with u-churched frieds, givig them the good ews of Jesus Christ. I high school miistry, the percetage of o-xeos studets grew from 64% to 69%, while i college the percetage remaied at 72% GOALS High school miistry growth is i declie ad we have bee searchig for aswers. May studets are meetig Christ through our miistry but most of them are ot takig the ext step towards discipleship. The story is ot over with may these studets ad we believe God will tur aroud this tred. Jesus said, If ayoe wishes to come after Me, he must dey himself, ad take up his cross daily ad follow Me. This is a radical call ad may will ot choose to follow. However, we believe God would have us do better i our follow up ad discipleship efforts. I the college miistry, ulike last year, we look for a strog year of home church platig. We foresee at least seve larger home churches platig. Pray God will grat this kid of home church multiplicatio. Plas are beig made to cotiue improvig our process of trasitioig committed believers from the college group ito the adult miistry. Because Xeos juior high miistry has bee decliig i attedace, we uderstad the ripple effects that will have o our high school ad college miistry. To that ed, we are tryig to make stroger efforts to wi youger sibligs of our o-xeos high school studets. We hope this will bolster up our iflow of icomig high school ad college studets i the years to come. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 19

20 Jr. High Miistry Bria Ruk, Director Brad Dufault, Assistat Director 2017 REVIEW The Juior High miistry attedace decreased by 8.5% this year (from 317 to 290). Whe factorig i the trasitios (graduated 89 to High School, received 41 from Oasis), the Juior High actually grew by. This miistry has historically bee oe of the best growig miistries i Xeos, with icomig classes growig betwee 50% ad 75% from 6th grade to 8th grade. However, with smaller icomig classes from Oasis, we aticipate a smaller miistry. This past year, some 42 studets prayed to receive Christ as their savior! We kow that outreach is still goig strog. Our studets brought 319 first time guests to cell groups this year (up from 285 last year), eve though the umber of juior highers attedig the miistry is smaller. It is woderful to see such youg studets already active i sharig their faith while ivitig frieds to Bible studies. Somethig ew! Two coed multi-grade juior high home church meetigs were lauched i summer. Both groups meet i the Worthigto area. Juior High leaders Bria Ruk ad Brad Dufault are leadig these ew meetigs ad they are off to a good starts. 82 differet studets have atteded these gatherigs but o ay give week about half of them atted. I these specific home churches, at least three studets came ito a relatioship with Christ! We do t kow if the home church model is ecessarily superior to the cell group wieski, but we are seeig promisig sigs. The leadership is ot ready to establish home churches for the whole miistry, as the cell group model has worked quite well i previous years. However, it ca be wise to try ew wieskis from time to time. Both cell groups ad home churches have their stregths ad weakesses. The home churches were iitially started to help stregthe efforts with Worthigto studets, hopig to improve icorporatio ito Suday ight high school home churches whe they graduate eighth grade. We are seeig a exceptioally high percetage of Blow Out summer camp participatio. I each of the previous two years, the participatio rate is much higher, actually crestig over 100% (110% i 2016, ad 108% i 2017). Summer camp is a vital experiece of fellowship ad fu, buildig powerful comraderie ad mometum for the small groups throughout the year. Our camp dates i 2018 are much earlier (Jue), so our leadership will eed to start early with creative camp promotio ad fudraisig. Ufortuately, the percetage of studets beig metored this year declied for the first time i may years (28% to 18%). This is cocerig. Metorig is simply whe a leader meets with oe or two studets to study the Bible, pray, have fu, ad discuss ways to brig quality ito the cell group. Most of this decrease is due to the additio of urba groups ito the miistry. It has bee tougher establishig metorig with these groups. We will take measures to icrease the umber of studets beig metored, especially i our urba cell groups GOALS Be ready to replace Bria Ruk as director. If thigs go accordig to pla, Bria will become a adult miistry sphere leader i That meas we will eed to fid a adequate replacemet ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

21 May of our o-xeos high school studets have youger sibligs i juior high who do t kow aythig about our juior high cell groups. We thik these older sibligs ca have ifluece i helpig their youger sibligs get ivolved i a juior high group. So, plas are beig made to icorporate these youger sibligs ito traditioal Xeos middle school groups or ew juior high bush groups. The follow up of ew guests eeds improvemet. About 320 first time guests atteded cell groups ad home churches, yet just a few doze have cotiued attedig. The leadership is layig out plas for improvemet. As metioed earlier, we are ot satisfied with the declie i percet of studets beig metored. We believe the health of the miistry depeds o metorig relatioships; therefore, the leadership will take additioal measures to teach adult voluteers the value of metorig ad provide practical traiig. Iteret porography ad over use of techology is plaguig juior high culture. Studies show the damage it causes ad we have see the effects withi our ow miistry. Therefore, the juior high leadership will sposor a meetig for parets to discuss this most importat issue ad how to dialogue about it with their childre. We hope may parets will atted, especially our Xeos parets. Reegade Mike Sulliva, Director 2017 REVIEW Reegade is a miistry that draws urba studets towards Christ through Bible teachigs, fellowship, ad fu activities. Overall attedace is dow by 8.7% (from 126 to 115). The mai reaso for this declie is due to the Reegade ad UC re-orgaizatio i late STUDENTS ARE LEARNING IMPORTANT SKILLS THROUGH RENEGADE S LIFE COACHING PROGRAM. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 21

22 Studets Uder Life Coachig by Year Reegade set off more juior high studets ito the juior high miistry tha it received from Light House elemetary miistry. We are pleased that about 30 studets reported puttig their trust i Christ. Curretly Reegade serves 70 elemetary studets ad 40 high school studets. I additio, our life coachig program serves 28 studets. These youg me ad wome meet oe-o-oe with mature, carig adults i Xeos who help them develop a variety of life skills. Retaiig studets as they grow older cotiues to be our biggest challege. Of the 34 juior high studets who etered our high school home churches over the previous four years, 16 (47%) are still attedig. Durig that same period, oly seve of twety of high school seiors (35%) are still attedig. Our research shows that we lose most of our high school studets durig their juior ad seior year. To address this, we are explorig the possibility of startig a private Christia high school. Puttig our studets i a healthy peer eviromet durig this crucial phase of life will give them a better chace of cotiuig to follow Christ ito youg adulthood was a trasitio year for Mike Sulliva, the director of Reegade. Mike bega teachig our adult cetral teachigs each week 25 i Jauary ad was o loger directly ivolved i Reegade high school miistry; although he provided coachig for these groups. Mike also coached the leaders of three elemetary meetigs located at Frakli Adhesives (South Side Reegade), Harambee Christia School (Harambee Reegade), ad Buildig X (Re29). Katie McCormac was hired to provide admiistrative support. At the same time, she ad Tyler Hughes replaced Mike s leadership The Pack high school group. Patty Youg, our life coachig director, helped the program cotiue to expad. [graph]. Life coachig coects carig adults i Xeos with promisig upperclassme help master life skills, such as securig a drivers licese, gettig a job, purchasig a car, securig studet loas ad grats for college, etc. Life coachig makes a big differece i whether spiritually mided studets will live healthy fuctioal lives. I 2017, Patty worked with Mike McCormac to recruit several ew coaches from across Xeos. We believe i this program ad would like to double or triple the umber of studets who receive life coachig. As our ivolvemet i low-icome areas i Columbus grows, so will our eed for coaches. See the 2018 goals below for more iformatio. To date, eight studets have graduated from this two-year program. Oe of our most importat log-term goals is to brig graduated Reegade studets back ito the miistry to serve i the juior high ad high school groups. To date, three returig graduates serve i juior high cell groups ad we hope to see may more do the same. Five Reegade graduates are livig i college miistry houses. Reegade cotiues strivig to improve overall quality. To that ed, Reegade offered a weeked traiig retreat for 125 urba miistry leaders across Xeos. Because it has bee difficult to egage urba studets i discipleship, we provided high school leaders with more focused feedback ad coachig i this area. The leadership tighteed restrictios o summer camp participatio, both i Blowout Camp (juior high) ad Epic (high school) i order to build a better camp experiece. Icreased efforts were made to eroll more Reegade elemetary studets i Harambee Christia School. This effort proved effective as eleve Reegade studets are ow receivig a outstadig educatio i a supportive, Christia eviromet at Harambee. Fially, all three Reegade graduates who bega servig i juior high two years ago cotiue to do so, thaks, i part, to support from their college home churches ad life coaches ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

23 2018 GOALS Be ready to replace Mike Sulliva as director. If thigs go accordig to pla, Mike will become a adult miistry sphere leader i That meas we will eed to fid a adequate replacemet. Expad Life Coachig: Because life coachig ca oly expad at the rate we mobilize voluteer life coaches, Life Coachig will trasfer ito Adult Miistries, from which our life coaches come. Please pray for this trasitio ad for the miistry to grow. We hope God will double or triple the umber of studets i life coachig i A Urba High School? Studet Miistries will cotiue to explore the possibility. Improve discipleship! We must do everythig we ca to icrease the umber of high school studets who are uder discipleship. That might also mea replacig leaders who are uable to wi over studets to discipleship. We wat to help our high school studets i three importat areas: resolvig coflict, critiquig cultural values that lead studets away from God, ad embracig God s view of sex. Additioal efforts will be made towards exposig high school studets to life i miistry houses. We hope each outig at miistry houses will add more to their visio of livig i that kid of eviromet whe they graduate. Xeos Christia Schools Jim Fulford, Pricipal 2017 REVIEW (JULY 2016 TO JUNE 2017) Calumet Christia School erollmet was 254 ad Xeos Christia Preschool erollmet was 25 for a total erollmet of 279. Classrooms remaied full, which eabled Calumet to be fiacially stable. Because of the soud fiacial positio, a key capital improvemet was made: a ew playgroud desiged to icrease studet physical activity. The schools will also have eough cash buffer to istall a ew roof at Calumet whe the eed arises. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE AT CALUMET SCHOOL LAST YEAR. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 23

24 Total Vouchers as % of Erollmet 46% 49% 35% 20% 23% 24% 27% 13% 14% The state sposored Ed Choice programs (Voucher Program) have eabled may Xeos families to atted our schools as a compellig alterative to Columbus City Schools. The tuitio is much more affordable tha similarly sized private schools. I , voucher studets comprised 49% of total erollmet [see chart]. Curriculum ehacemets have kept aggregate stadardized test scores high. MAP (Measures i Academic Progress) scores: math = 74th percetile; readig = 79th percetile; laguage usage = 76th percetile; ad sciece = 72d percetile. These are strog scores ad compare favorably to previous years. [see chart] 80 Schools Stadardized Test Scores MAP Math Readig Laguage Sciece ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

25 2018 GOALS (JULY 2017 TO JUNE 2018) Cotiuig curriculum ehacemets: Our pricipal ad teachers work together i evaluatig curret ad ew curriculum for each subject, i each grade, every three years. Our sciece teachers are cotiuig to develop state-aliged, iquirybased sciece uits i 4th ad 5th grades. Teachers i 3rd through 6th grades will also be reviewig chages to the ELA writig curriculum. I July of 2017, the exterior steps o the west side of the buildig were replaced ad re-ladscaped for a much more practical ad better look. I the summer of 2017, school security was reviewed ad appropriate ehacemets were implemeted, icludig additioal ew cameras ad a itercom system. Later this year, the school staff will participate i school-specific security traiig. Whe will a secod school ope? It may ot be feasible for a few more years. It s ulikely the ext icomig kidergarte class ( ) will fill classrooms eough to ope a secod classroom, but that decisio will be made after the registratio period i early February, I the school board ad Elders established erollmet priorities i the evet demad exceeds classroom space. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 25

26 OUR CHILDREN S MINISTRY IS SEEING A LONG AWAITED UPSWING. Oasis Childre s Miistry Jeff Risley, Director 2017 REVIEW After several years of declie i the umber of youg childre populatig our church, we thik our childre s miistry is fially seeig a log awaited upswig i youg kids. The miistry grew by 1.5% (481 to 489). With the may marriages over the previous decade, we aticipate much more growth to come. However, the older miistries i the Studet Divisio will eed to wait quite a bit loger before they see this impact. Oasis helped facilitate a smooth trasitio for the adult miistry expasio to the Warehouse facility. This trasitio was immese, movig a large portio of studets ad voluteer work force mid-year. The Discipleship Café, a ew program last year, was expaded over the summer to serve older kids. Over 80 parets used this service to get uiterrupted time with their disciples, prepare teachigs, or study. Oasis leaders visited Real Life Miistry i Idaho to study its childre s program. The group saw excitig check i/out processes they will implemet at our CTs. These processes will ehace safety while easig the gatherig of statistics ad reportig. Vacatio Bible School was a success, with every spot filled! 320 childre ejoyed their experiece at this aual summer camp for preschool through third grade studets. Of those who atteded, 89 were o Xeos guests. Oasis made efforts to facilitate improved follow up with these o-xeos families ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

27 Fially Caitli Kleipaste led TNT s eighth aual daytime missio s camp for 68 fourth ad fifth graders. This represets a 23.6% icrease i participatio from last year. At this five day camp, studets discovered what life is like i Russia GOALS Make security ehacemets. A ew camera ad moitorig system will be istalled at our Mai Campus locatio. Additioal improvemets will be made to the Active Shooter traiig ad protocol. Establish ew database ad check-i systems for Oasis for all veues. This icludes digital check-i, prited ame tags for every child, ad ehaced checkout abilities for each classroom. Add five HOP groups, from 12 to 17. HOP is a program through which Oasis provides care givers at the home church locatio. This program eables parets to brig their childre to home church while their childre are cared for by traied ad vetted care givers.this allows for more time of fellowship for the adults. Oasis was ot able to add more HOP groups i It was difficult recruitig workers for this. However, we will add a camp scholarship program i order to recruit youger high school ad juior high studets. This measure should give HOP a adequate umber of caregivers. Our church hopes to ehace adult CT fellowship by reovatig curret spaces for age appropriate play ad hag out areas. This ehacemet will eable parets to fellowship loger after CT teachigs while their childre play ad hag out i secure check-i/check-out areas. Oasis will oversee this part of the ifrastructure. Moitor upcomig child populatios. Oasis will cotiue to moitor youg family demographics i order to adequately prepare for higher populatios of childre. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 27

28 ADULT MINISTRIES Phil Frack, Divisio Coordiator THERE WERE BIG CHANGES IN THE ADULT SPHERE IN 2017 The Adult Miistries Divisio cosists of spheres (or groups) of home churches uder the leadership of a seior sphere leader, who pastors the home groups i that sphere. All seior sphere leaders work uder the leadership of the Adult Miistries Head was aother year of big chages. We realiged adults CTs to 5 meetigs : 10 am Mai Campus, 5:30 pm Mai Campus, 10 am Warehouse, 5:30 pm Warehouse ad 10 am 4th Street while cotiuig our west side, east side ad Nepali CTs. This eabled us to start a quarterly CT teacher rotatio, with CT audieces from differet spheres at the same locatio. This was a level of chage that a lot of people foud challegig, but everyoe pulled together ad it wet rather smoothly! These chages eabled us to better prepare for upcomig staff chages at the seior sphere leader level. This also elimiated the eed to have meetigs immediately after oe aother hiderig fellowship time after the meetig. Mike Woods stepped up to replace Jim Leffel as a Adult Miistry seior sphere Leader. Be Foust also stepped up i to seior sphere leadership ad took o a large umber of home churches from the Lowery sphere looks to be aother big year of trasitio. We are curretly plaig for Gary Delashmutt ad Doug Patch to step back from their seior sphere leader roles. Mike Sulliva, Bria Ruk, ad Corad Hilario with Kate Mizelle will be replacig them, creatig excitig ew leadership opportuities ad dyamics i Adult Miistry ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

29 2017 REVIEW SPHERE UPDATES GARY DELASHMUTT 2017 was a busy year for our sphere. Our home churches spread across three CTs, icludig the two ew Warehouse CTs. We thik 43 people came to faith i Christ through people i our sphere. We were t able to plat ay home churches this year, but we thik we are ready to plat 1-3 ew home churches i We have may workers servig i the juior high miistry. We cotiue to sed workers to the miistry teams we ve started over the past 10 years 4th St. Cliics, Reegade, ad HOPE (substace abuse). I additio, people from our sphere started two ew miistry teams recetly Redemptio (porography) ad Faith (metal illess). We fielded a short-term missio team for Haiti for the secod year, we set the McCormac s ad DeLashmutts to help the Collective i Belfast, Irelad ad we bega helpig the Casassa s miistry i Chile. We praise God for the privilege of servig Him! DOUG PATCH Our sphere is gaiig stregth i key areas. Most home churches are ejoyig over 70% of their members i disciplig relatioships (peer or metorig). All have prayer meetigs. Because of the emphasis God places o these, He has blessed us with outreach ad salvatios to our peer group ad i the variety of miistries i which we are egaged HOPE, IFI, Reegade, the ew Parkiso s miistry i the Bolai group, etc.. May have claimed this summer s baptism to be the best i our 10 years as a sphere. As we faithfully pray for ad ivest i the lost, we ca be cofidet that He will cotiue to reach them. Faithfuless has led to Him gradually growig us the first 10 moths of the year compared to last, culmiatig i a home church plat! College miistry cotiues to develop youg workers ad leaders who, whe ready, successfully trasitio ito post-college miistry. A three-sphere collaborative plat (Lowery, Bret McCallum, ours) led to the formatio of the ew Ballista home church i our sphere with seior leaders Day & Corrie Kear ad co-leaders Jaso ad Grace Motz, Chris ad Amy DeVille, Be ad Kylie Oley, ad Sydey Parks. Capetow Home Church set up a pod led by Kevi ad Amy Hama who ow co-lead i Vaguard II with the Fojas, Patches, ad ew leaders Drew Sweet ad Adam Michael-Mark. A persoal ote from Doug Patch 2018 will be my eleveth ad last year as the sphere leader. Early i 2017 I requested that 2018 be my last year i this role. God has richly blessed His church with a secod geeratio of gifted, equipped, ad sactified leaders. I will ejoy cotiuig to serve as a home church coach uder ew sphere leadership. The elders have graciously allowed me to cotiue as a class istructor, work with our domestic iteratioal studet miistry ad develop ew miistries to military persoel ad sigle parets. I do t kow how to thak you all for your friedship ad cooperative spirit these past te years. I pray that we have grow i our uderstadig ad appreciatio of His grace together ad will cotiue to i the future. I also wat to thak you for your patiece with me as He used this role to further my sactificatio (ad He is t doe!). Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 29

30 RYAN LOWERY I 2017 the Lowery Sphere plated out the Foust sphere. As the ew Adult Miistry Deptarmet Head, Rya plated the majority of the groups he oversees ito Be s sphere ad kept oly 9 home churches. This was deemed ecessary so that he could cotiue to focus most of his time o Adult Miistry as a whole. This small sphere did very well. Rya worked with Studet Miistry to brig i 30 or so college miistry leaders ad workers. They started a ew home church called Sceic ad i 8 moths were able to cooperate with Patch s Sphere ad College Miistry ad plat that home church out ito aother group of youg adults, resultig i Balista (ow i Patch s sphere) ad Sceic II (still i Rya s sphere) will come with a ew list of challeges ad more chage for this sphere. Thigs get shake up agai as adult miistry chages to make room for older sphere leaders steppig back, ad ew sphere leaders steppig up. It will be aother year of excitig challeges ad chage, but we are more optimistic tha ever that God is behid us ad cotiues to bless our great church. MIKE WOODS While a year of sigificat trasitio, 2017 was a fruitful year for the 19 home groups i the Woods sphere. Through this trasitio, our groups showed real uity ad servat hearts. Our 7 youger groups cotiued to grow with great evagelism ad may of our older groups cotiued to expad their service i importat commuity ad global miistries. Locally the focus o margialized populatios, i additio to traditioal peer outreach, resulted i over 180 people eterig the kigdom of God. Globally, aother 400 to 500 people had real physical eeds met ad came to faith i Jesus through our short-term medical missio trips. All of this is a extesio of God s mercy toward us ad the work of God s Spirit workig through ordiary people ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

31 BEN FOUST Our sphere is brad ew this year, havig plated out from the Lowery sphere i Jauary. We are 20 home churches coverig a wide rage of demographics. We have groups with a average age as low as 32 ad as high as 71. Paul Alexader, Sarah Foust, ad Liz Sweet serve as coaches for this fatastic workforce. We are very excited about the may ways we have see God at work i our midst durig this first year out. Two home church plats ad a major multi group re-orgaizatio have made for a time of dyamic chage. A amazig crop of 17 ew ad returig home church leaders have stregtheed our groups ad expaded our capacity, ad will hopefully pave way for ew growth! SCOTT ARNOLD I 2017, the West side sphere has cotiued our emphasis o raisig youg workers ad our ext geeratio of leaders from our core of urba youth ad urba workers. Though this work has take time, we are seeig promisig growth. The last several years has see a surge of former urba youth who have married well ad are committed to help lead i our work. They are embracig the ecessary equippig, helpig to teach home church, disciple others, ad are (i some cases) curretly sittig i o leader s meetigs. The quality of their cotributios cotiues to improve. Oe of our former urba youth taught Cetral Teachig (CT) this year as a sub ad did a great job. While we had hoped to plat at least oe group this year, we faced setbacks. We remai hopeful that at least oe plat is o our horizo for KENDAL TRIPLETT The people i the East side sphere are geerally busy growig the sphere by brigig others aroud ad persoally learig ad teachig ad doig differet miistries, both iside the church ad outside i the commuity. Outreach has bee geerally good ad we have record of 13 salvatios. However, those folks that get saved ofte do t wid up as part of our sphere because they may be livig i homes for the elderly or hospitalized ad their movemet is restricted. May of our people have grow spiritually i this past year ad at the same time others have had health problems to deal with, family issues ad other difficulties to get through. Through it all the East side sphere is healthy ad workig to get the message of God s grace to as may people as possible. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 31

32 Support Services Phil Frack, Divisio Coordiator SUPPORT SERVICES Phil Frack, Divisio Coordiator THE TRUE CHARACTER OF MINISTRY IS A SERVANTS HEART. HAROLD WARNER 2018 is a big year of chage. Phil Frack is reducig the scope of his role ad hours, ad Keega Hale will take his place as Divisio Coordiator of what is beig reamed Pastoral Support Divisio. Phil will head up two departmets uder the ew divisio: Evagelism ad CT Hospitality. Iteral Services, Kathy Hoffer I Iteral Services, Kathy Hoffer is reducig hours. Sherri Fojas will take over Servat Team admiistratio REVIEW Servat Team (church deacos): We eded 2017 with 847 Servat Team members (up from 795 i 2016). Our aual retreat was held at Sawmill Creek, Ohio, ad will be agai i Access Miistry (Servig people with disabilities) ASL iterpretig was provided cosistetly for 3 ogoig meetigs ad 4 major evets. There are curretly 8 ASL iterpreters (dow 20% from 2016) ad 11 deaf recipiets (up about 10% from 2016). Access Oasis: We eded 2017 with 26 voluteers (up from 19 i 2016) providig idividual care for up to 18 studets each week (up from 14 i 2016) via the HUB (special low-stimulatio room) or i-class voluteers ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

33 Saturday Night Bible Study cotiued to average about 20 participats (o sigificat chage from 2016). Fiishig Well (mobilizig people 55 years ad older for miistry): Oe ew aspect of the miistry will be directed at equippig people headig toward empty estig ad beyod. Aother iteded ew aspect of the miistry will specifically focus o supportig ad mobilizig people 70 ad older. The Griefshare course was offered 3 times this year (2 10-week sessios, plus 1 special holiday sessio). A total of 89 people took the course (up from 82 i 2016). The bi-mothly paret loss support group for people uder 30 (Good Grief) saw 47 people atted this group i 2017 (up from 13 i 2016). 25 people atteded the supportig a grievig perso class doe for the Equippig Divisio by Joh Motgomery of the grief miistry. Helpig Hads spet about 36 hours servig 13 families this year, ad it is curretly i the process of servig 3 other families. Hardship Fud 27 idividuals, couples or families received fuds for couselig or assistace payig bills. FREE CLINICS There are a total of 615 registered voluteers, of which 117 are active (there were 114 active i 2016). This past year, there were a total of 65 cliic sessios, dow from 68 i Approximately 780 voluteer shifts have bee served i (Patiet ad visit stats for the detal cliics are ot icluded here, as they are processed via Vieyard s system, ot ours.) I the year 2017 there have bee 276 total patiet visits, dow from 362 last year. Of these, 55 were at the legal cliic, the remaider at fourth street medical cliic. This year there have bee at least 58 prayer sessios (up from 46 last year). Two patiets have idicated to us that they received Christ durig these sessios. We cotiue to struggle to field voluteers for the Thursday eveig Vieyard detal cliics. BIBLICAL COUNSELING 2,390 paid couselig sessios were coducted i the plaig cycle of September through August The Biblical Couselig Departmet has 12 part time couselors (most are half-day i this role). Some of the couselors moved o i 2017 ad we will seek to fill those spots i COUNSELING ORIENTED MINISTRY TEAMS Divorce Care is still searchig for ew leaders ad did ot offer a group i Never Aloe substace abuse group ad HOPE substace abuse group are still goig strog ad growig i participats. Griefshare (helpig people who ve suffered great loss i the death of a loved oe) is expadig to offer more ogoig help to youg people who ve lost parets. VICTORY (helpig wome dealig with rape), HEART (resolvig issues related to abortio) GRACE (for wome recoverig from abuse) all saw tremedous resposes from participats about their lives chagig due to these 10 week courses. This year we added a Me s GRACE group which was dramatically successful i restorig the lives of the participats. Two more ew miistry teams were accredited this year: PROMISE a miistry reachig out to families of addicts, ad FAITH a supportive Bible study for those strugglig with metal illess. Lookig forward we hope to start a small trauma team to quickly mobilize durig times of great crisis. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 33

34 Our Biblical Couselig departmet offered two Ehacemet Sessios for home church leaders. Oe was o suicide, ad oe was o helpig people i your group through crises. There are audio ad hadouts o the Couselig Resources portio of the Xeos website GOALS I 2018 look for expasio of the Marriage Metorig program to meet the eeds of dozes of couples gettig married each year i Xeos. Commuicatios, Diae McGuire 2017 bega with major chages to the FST ballot site with a ew survey added ad additioal calculators featured. A FST video was produced to showcase may of the thigs that fiacial givig cotributes to at Xeos. Several other video projects were bega or completed i Two videos were produced about Mary Lye Musgrove a testimoy ad a video about her faithfuless durig a health crisis. A series of short videos will be added to the website explaiig more about Xeos ad some of our key miistries icludig our commuity service, Oasis ad juior high programs. Twety seve people were iterviewed over 2 days for the purposes of producig those videos. Website traffic has remaied steady, as has traffic to our app with may teachigs available to liste to or save for free. The graphics team created hudreds of sigs, book ad program covers, PowerPoit templates ad website images i GOALS We also bega researchig ways to make our website ad olie reputatio improve. Some of the iformatio gathered is turig ito plas to be implemeted i EVANGELISM Evagelism Cosultatios Phil Frack ad Sherri Fojas met with 15 home group leadership teams ad worker teams to discuss practical tools as well as heart issues that affect groups ad idividuals reachig out with the Good News ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

35 Iteratioal Friedships There are at least 555 Xeos members who served hudreds of iteratioal studets. This miistry has a icredible eed for voluteers to help with hostig, airport pickups, coversatio parters, etc. There are at least 56 foreig studets who came to faith i Christ this year. There are still may more studets who are waitig for a coversatio parter. Paretig Meetig This mothly meetig for parets addresses how the Gospel makes a positive differece i paretig. This year we moved the meetig to the Warehouse; meetig the first Wedesday morig of the moth durig the school year. We also chaged the format to allow for discussio groups. Teachigs are olie at The Pub Nights ad Christmas Eve were very successful with may guests ejoyig our hospitality ad seekig to kow more about God ad our church. ADULT CENTRAL TEACHING (CT) ADMINISTRATION Adult CTs have brached out ad are o loger strictly liked exclusively with a particular Adult Sphere, except for East ad West spheres/cts. Suday Adult CTs are ow: 10 am at Mai Auditorium, Warehouse ad 4th St., ad 5:30 pm at Mai Auditorium ad Warehouse GOALS A Augur s admiistrative compoet will, i 2018, be joied by Phil Frack s leadership of the large additioal ew compoet of hospitality. The departmet will shift to Operatios ad be reamed, CT Hospitality CT hospitality exists to maximize the fellowshippig ad outreach potetial of Cetral Teachigs. We ll offer ew approaches ad evets to piggyback o to the quality Cetral Teachigs already i place. The goal is to icrease the family friedliess of CTs. Music, food ad special evets will play a more frequet role i several CTs. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 35

36 OPERATIONS & ADMINISTRATION Steve Bauer, Divisio Coordiator WE WORK HARD TO MAXIMIZE ALL OF OUR INVESTMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES was a good year of both solidifyig the Operatios ad Admiistratio Divisio s support of work i the church ad takig major steps toward supportig the future miistry of the church, for years to come. Much of what we did revolved aroud those 2 key goals provide for today s miistry, pla ad act for the future of the church. DIVISION SUPPORT (AKA BACK OFFICE ) WORK Ay orgaizatio that hopes to thrive has to have a solid ifrastructure i place, supported by back office fuctios with great staff i place. We have a woderful staff i ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

37 place for support, with experiece ad expertise that is costatly beig ehaced. Their work is largely usee ad really ot oticed util someoe eeds somethig to do their work or somethig fails. A resposive ad diliget staff is critical to succeedig i the work set before us by God. The Operatios departmets of Accoutig & Fiace, Iformatio Services, Office Services, ad Huma Resource Maagemet all work hard (ad together) to provide for our icredibly diverse miistry. Every other divisio relies o the servats i these areas. ACCOUNTING & FINANCE Accoutig & Fiace cotiues to see ever-icreasig trasactio loads, while providig service to employees ad members alike. Automatio of key recurrig fuctios ad commuicatios has bee a key to takig o more-ad-more while ot icreasig staff. Ala Burkholder, CPA, remais our go-to director of the departmet, with Catherie Gilbert at his side for over 23 years. We re blessed to have that kid of log-term commitmet to God s work i fiaces through our church. Josh Keega joied our crew i 2016 ad has made a big impact, takig o some added work i our expadig Missios edeavors. We act as a missio sedig agecy i a few fields, ad we are improvig our ability to support work aroud the world every year. Iformatio Systems ot oly covers all of the computer, etworkig ad telecommuicatios techology we use, but recetly our team has also take o ew roles with database developmet. We have a log-term focus i mid as we work toward a large implemetatio of a ew data system, called The Rock. Data is a major elemet of the work, but our etire busiess model will be ehaced ad chaged as we put more of this great ope system ito place. To that ed, Greg Lawless will take a greater role i implemetig The Rock, while cotiuig as director i the departmet. We look forward to who God will brig ito a ew etwork/systems admiistratio role i 2018 to augmet Greg s move. Greg will be freed to use his years of experiece o staff, his isight as a home church leader ad his prove techical skills to brig us ito a ew model for our work uder the ew system. With Da Walker servig i his systems ad telecommuicatios role ad Byro Tobe providig user helpdesk support across multiple locatios, we have a fatastic team i place, with a ew professioal roudig it out. We will cotiue to remid each other of a core ethic we follow gettig the most out of our ivestmet i techology, makig it last. Office Services is catch-all for how people get served through ad i our mai office, ad beyod. The staff i this departmet are ofte greetig those who atted Xeos ad visitors, so they catch a lot of traffic ad direct it to the right place. Cathy Kaiser is the servat leadig our servats, ad she has established a professioal, resposive ad gracious eviromet for all who come through our doors. With Joyce Weeks holdig dow the critical gate-keeper role at our ofte freetic frot desk, we feel able to provide solid hospitality while ruig a productive office. We thak the may voluteers ad part-time staff who also make the office all it is, a place of refuge where we seek to meet the eeds of people. The roles i Huma Resources Maagemet are critical i a complex ad broad miistry. Staff is supported by Daw Burkholder she s the key to helpig maagers remember what they eed to AN ACCOUNTING ASIDE I 2017, we raised our budget 5.1% above 2016, ad people i the church gave at ew levels to make that budget attaiable (see the Fiacial sectio o page 44). Our Securig Our Future buildig fud campaig largely came to a close i 2017, eve as some families cotiue to fud facilities with ogoig gifts. We were able to achieve a uprecedeted level of collectio agaist pledges for this campaig, seeig our goal of $4.9 millio exceeded i pledges that came i at $5.6 millio. We have see doatios agaist pledges exceed a 96% rate, with over $5.4 millio received over 3 years. God is great! We were able to reovate ad outfit the Warehouse ad elimiate old debt from this highly successful campaig. We acquired a ew facility i 2016 ad retai aroud $930,000 i debt o that, but that loa level is maageable withi our operatig budget. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 37

38 do for employmet chages, for ew hires to lear the ropes, for esurig that all staff have their physical eeds at work met ad for esurig we remai cogizat of chages i employmet law ad practices. This area, like those above, is a behidthe-scees departmet, so critical to successful work i the church. With may chages i staff i 2017, we worked hard ad smart to make sure we met eeds ad improved processes for the future. FACILITIES SUPPORT SERVICES WORK With may facilities, we rely o the professioal services of our Facilities, Hospitality ad Master Schedulig, ad Soud & Light departmets. The chaos that the staff i these areas has to deal with regularly, i support of the variety of miistries we are ivolved i, requires teacity ad a servat s heart. We re blessed to have staff members who are lookig out for the church. I the Facilities Departmet, the largest part of our overall Operatios Divisio budget used to meet eeds across several campuses. This makes sese as you see how much it takes to outfit, maitai, clea, heat ad cool, set-up, secure ad ehace buildigs ad grouds i our dyamic miistry eviromet. We have over 260,000 square feet of space we oversee o over 80 acres across cetral Ohio. Dave Bucklew eters his 21st year of headig this support, ad we could t be happier with what he ad his staff do to meet our eeds. Derf Brau has the reis of our studet facility ear the Ohio State Uiversity campus at 4th St., alog with providig support at the Warehouse ad elsewhere. We have too may other staff members to metio, but we are glad to have Coer Marti also focused o our facilities, with a eye toward the future. While Xeos ow ows a ew property ext to the Warehouse, a arragemet with the previous owers allows them to use the facility util they have completed a move to a ew locatio. We are ow prearig to take over this space. The last quarter of 2017 saw us startig to gather user requiremets ad makig it safe ad secure while vacat as we figure out ext steps. We will be movig our mai Study Ceter to the site i 2018, allowig us to gai much-eeded office space at our Mai Campus STATUS OF OUR CHURCH-WIDE DATA AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Last year we reported o our work toward fidig ad startig to implemet a comprehesive solutio to meet user eeds for access to data ad fuctioality across the church. The Rock is a ope system supported by a cetral vedor, with a wide user base of hudreds of churches across the U.S. After beig itroduced to the system we saw more churches we kew had coverted to usig this system. I 2017, we took the pluge to move to The Rock ad started data modelig ad coversio to get iitial fuctioality up-ad-ruig i Our excellet staff keeps our 1990s legacy systems goig for ow, but we re very focused o the future ad what this highly accepted church system will brig to the miistry of the church. The system will allow us to tie i other sub-systems to provide better commuicatio to the church spheres ad to target our audieces more precisely. We will be able to move toward techologies like child check-i/check-out with tags (Oasis) ad better follow-up. Our metric reportig will be easier to access ad customize as a result of gettig off our legacy databases. We are excited about the choices we have made ad what this ew approach will mea to our support of miistry i all areas of the church. We wated to be further ahead i 2017 tha were we eded the year o this project, but we leared a great deal about the system ad our busiess model through the implemetatio steps. We are well-positioed to make solid strides i 2018 ad are more realistic about what we ca accomplish. We will brig a ew hire o-board i order to free some existig staff time to focus o makig the system all it ca be. We re blessed to have great people i place to make such a move work ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

39 Office buildig. As we have grow ad take o ew staff, we have filled every part available of our office opeed i I order to maitai uity of our staff, especially amog our leadership, we eed to maitai a cetral office where we gather ad so much importat scheduled ad impromptu commuicatio happes. I 2018, we will make sure we ca house our staff ad provide some room-to-grow. MASTER SCHEDULING AND EVENT SERVICES Hospitality is built ito Xeos (as thie Greek word meas just that hospitable ). We wat to provide for the may uses of our spaces with grace ad care, focused o the people ivolved, ot just the spaces beig used. Michelle Housto, i a dual role with her Master Schedulig work, keeps a eye o what we eed to help esure good use of iside ad outside spaces for evets ad meetigs. However, much of what we do for evets ad meetigs falls to the church spheres to accomplish, ad they ofte see their time better used i the pastoral eeds withi their spheres, so they could use help. So i 2017 we worked through some chages to provide more of a resource to help provide more hospitality support for spheres, especially at Cetral Teachigs. I 2018 we will take ew steps, with ehaced staffig, toward better service at our major meetigs. Our Master Schedule is just complicated ad diverse. Trackig all of the uses at our veues, followig up with users ad iteral resources for evets, ad followig up o the miutiae required with evets falls uder Michelle Housto s oversight. Every year we have may church evets ad fuctios, while also supportig some great o-profit commuity evets i our spaces. Ad we host over 40 weddigs every year for members of Xeos, alog with may other gatherigs for members like a growig umber of weddig aiversary celebratios. Michelle is supported by excellet professioal help with Tess Meeker as the poit-of-cotact for weddigs ad Laura Mayer providig right-had support. I 2017 we moved schedulig of o-weddig evets at studet veues to Studet Miistry persoel, ad we look HOSPITALITY IS BUILT INTO XENOS (AS THE GREEK WORD MEANS JUST THAT HOSPITABLE ). Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 39

40 forward to how that better matches usage expectatios at those facilities (ad we remai a resource for schedulig i ay case). TECHNICAL SERVICES (SOUND AND LIGHT) The work of Soud & Light touches every meetig, evet ad fuctio we have i every veue we operate. The load o Gale Flowers ad his professioal staff is dautig, but a huge part of what our staff is really good at is developig ad maitaiig a remarkable voluteer techical team for Cetral Teachigs. It is so ecouragig to kow that every week may voluteers diligetly ow part of the excellet service at our meetigs. This staff multiplier makes possible a amazig stewardship we do a lot with a tight budget. Charlie Lacaster ad Scott Maloe are critical servats o staff i this departmet, providig expert techical focus i a chaotic, highly active eviromet. We moved ahead i a umber of projects i 2017 ad are poised to provide ehacemets to miistry through tools like ew digital (16:10) projectio capacity at our Mai Campus veues. We look forward to 2018 based o solid work i ADMINISTRATION WORK Our divisio icludes the staff time for our seior pastors to oversee their. I additio, some support staff to assist them is fuded here. As our church has aged from its roots i the 1970s, the people who started it all have aged as well. We have cotiued a solid successio pla over the past few years i particular, culmiatig i some key moves that have brought a ew seior pastor ito this role. We ow fud part of Rya Lowery s time, alog with the cotiued ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

41 fudig for Deis McCallum ad Gary DeLashmutt, as the latter two pla for their futures i differet capacities withi ad potetially outside the church. We feel icredibly blessed to work together opely to esure trasitio to ew leadership ad feel we are perfectly situated to see the church through that trasitio i the ext few years. Of course, we hope ad expect to have our fouders cotiue to have roles at Xeos, but we also wat them to have the freedom to seek out ew aveues i their miistry ad be ope to the ways God wats to use their outstadig miistry experiece ad skills. Overseeig the work of the Admiistratio & Operatios Divisio is challegig ad rewardig. What a great staff we get to rely o ad there are may church members who provide expert iput i a variety of areas. We have had some challeges i a few legal areas that cotiue to eed follow up. There were some ew property tax issues that came up durig 2017 that wo t be resolved util Through such times of cofusio ad worry, we kow God has the aswers ad that He s at work. So we do what we re called to do, i faith, ad cofidetly face the hard work brought before us. We have bee studyig ad seekig professioal help o security ad safety related issues for the church. We are avigatig through issues we ever thought we have to, based o the horrific evets that other churches have faced with violece i the last few years. We re blessed to have professioals i our church i law eforcemet who have a burde to help us see murky issues more clearly, ad we have great cotacts i other churches ad orgaizatios who are facig the same decisios we are. We do ot wat to over-react ad we do ot believe we ca simply do othig, so we take measured approach ad cotiue to lear ad share iformatio ad pray. ADMINISTRATION & OPERATIONS WHO ARE WE? Operatios staff oversees a broad rage of the busiess elemets of Xeos, or the behid-the-scees, idirectly spiritual elemets of the church s work. Our basic missio is, To provide excellece i admiistrative support, commuicatios ad facilities, helpig focus the miistries coducted by our church staff ad members. We serve those who serve i the frot lies. ADMINISTRATION Our seior pastors ad elders have budget ad some staff resources i the deptartmet to oversee the work of the divisios to meet strategic goals. OFFICE SERVICES Professioal staff meets a diverse array of eeds for systems, supplies ad service required to pull off weekly evets ad classes, to meet member ad visitor eeds ad to esure our staff remais efficiet i their work. FACILITIES The largest departmet is charged with esurig our spaces from Mai Campus off I-270 to 4th St., The Warehouse, Harambee i South Lide ad Calumet Christia School are maitaied, clea ad equipped to meet icredibly diverse, always chagig miistry eeds. TECHNICAL SERVICES (SOUND & LIGHT) With multiple large meetigs at varied veues each week ad with high excellece eeded at each veue, our soud ad light experts are kept amog the busiest of all Operatios staff. INFORMATION SYSTEMS Our techical group esures commuicatios betwee ad withi our offices, veues ad schools remai available 24/7 to meet user eeds. ACCOUNTING & FINANCE Our professioal accoutig staff is called o to steward our fiacial resources, ad to protect our assets with diligece. MASTER SCHEDULING & EVENT SERVICES With a church of over 5,600, we have a icredibly complex caledar of uses to assist. From the actual schedulig of all key fuctios, to providig for eeds of each user, this area serves iteral users ad may outside users of facilities, makig sure God stay i focus. HUMAN RESOURCES AND LEGAL SERVICES With a staff of over 330 across our orgaizatios, we ru ito issues related to employmet ad may other areas. Operatios provides fudametal Huma Resource support. We also oversee ay cosultatio with legal advisers ad follow-up with all matters related to the law ad our busiess. Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 41

42 This last year we were able to brig the Frakli Couty Sherriff s Office to preset traiig at Xeos, ad we had over 200 atted from our church ad from other churches. Some staff also wet to multiple semiars related to safety ad security. We also had a professioal church security cosultat come to review 2 of our CT weeked meetigs ad they provided a detailed report, coverig improvemets we could make right away ad some solid iput of directio for the future. We are learig as we go ad we thak our Lord for who He has protected us through the years while we seek to steward the safety of His flock i ew ways ito the future. We ehaced several Huma Resources policies i 2017, icludig our workplace harassmet ad ethics policies ad procedures, providig easier reportig for people who see or experiece issues that should be ivestigated. A 2017 REVIEW We re egaged i broad ad deep miistry support ad there is more to get to tha we have time ad resources to get doe. God helps us prioritize ad focus, ad that was clear i 2017 ad with plas ufoldig for the comig year. We spet a great deal of last year focused o techology use ad implemetatio, with work o our ew church-wide system. I the last few moths of the year we plaed how our ew property could best be utilized ad the ripple effects of creatig more uity-reiforcig leadership staff work areas. This etire year we edeavored to provide what s eeded for a growig ad diverse miistry. This was all doe alog with our core work of costatly seekig to fid ways to improve delivery of service to staff, members, ad visitors to our church. At the ed of 2107 we were poised to: Eter ito architectural plaig for the move of our mai Study Ceter to Oaklad Park Ave. Get all user requiremets for the Study Ceter move, alog with the twi project of creatig ew office spaces at the mai office for leaders. Covert the first parts of The Rock, our ew data ad commuicatio platform to support miistry ito the future. Implemet some ehacemets to child play areas at our Mai Campus locatio, while also waitig to see if 2018 fudig ca allow us to do more. Implemet soud & light related ehacemets. Mai Campus movig to 16:10 projectio ad acoustic fixes at The Warehouse. Cotiue all the great behid-the-scees work we are kow for. Fiacially, we hope ad expect to cotiue to thrive, as God ad His people keep providig through our Geeral Fud, through the recetly completed Buildig Fud ad i the huge iroads we are cotiuig to make i atioal ad especially iteratioal missios work. We should t be surprised as we kow that God is behid what we are doig ad we have a uified ad geerous church ivolved i our global work. It is still amazig to see ew budgets adopted to take ew groud i our, prayig ad woderig if such icreases are warrated oly to see them covered ad exceeded year-after-year. The blessigs our church receives i so may ways are certaily to be celebrated ad ot take for grated ANNUAL REPORT Xeos Christia Fellowship

43 2018 GOALS 2018 will have a huge effort spet i pursuit of improvig our data system ad commuicatios. Ad we will exped a good deal of eergy toward buildig ehacemets. Oe of those ehacemets we hope to fud through our aual fudig campaig i Jauary, is to provide ew play areas at our Mai Campus locatio, iside ad outside. The Study Ceter will be movig to its ew locatio. We look forward i hope that i 2018 we will address some ligerig legal issues we have iformed the church about ad are workig to resolve. Of course, we wat to focus all of our work o forward-facig, miistry buildig work, but we sometimes have to slog through other obstacles, i faith ad with diligece. I 2018 we are also blessed to kow we have part of Phil Frack s time comig over to help us pursue ew ways to support hospitality for our spheres. Phil s may years of miistry ad his may years of work o staff at Xeos make him a icredible resource to focus o such core issues every week. We are truly lookig forward to the impact we ca make with a greater focus o issues of hospitality i meetig. We are a large church. Sometimes we forget that we came from as a oe-home Bible study. Now we have a established, growig world-wide impact. We strive to maitai uity ad coectio with each other ad with God s purposes, eve as He prospers His work. Our Operatios & Admiistratio Divisio has a large ad critical role i seekig to help achieve overarchig goals to address the thigs that might otherwise cause disuity, to avigate detailed issues that might otherwise create much bigger problems, ad to be a resource for miistries to take ew groud sharig the Gospel ad growig God s kigdom. We re thakful to be part of the team that has bee built at Xeos, makig a impact at home ad aroud the world. THE ACQUISITION OF NEW PROPERTY WILL EXPAND PARKING AT THE WAREHOUSE Xeos Christia Fellowship 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 43