Calistoga, CA
Church Plant
Calistoga, CA
Church Plant
Our MISSION:
What are we going to do?
Our mission is to love God and our community through Spirit empowered exaltation of Christ in his Word.
Our Values:
Why are we Church Planting?
Christ-centered Trinitarianism
We are committed to loving our heavenly Father through exalting his Son in the power of the Spirit because that is how our triune God loves us. The Father shows his love for us by exalting his Son through his death and resurrection on our behalf. The Son shows his love for us by being our substitute and advocate before the Father. And the Spirit shows his love for us by empowering us and pointing us to Christ in his Word as the sufficient remedy for sin. Because the Father and the Spirit are the most Christ-centered persons in existence, we follow their lead in exalting Christ as the center of everything we do.
Sufficiency of Scripture
We are committed to the exaltation of Christ in his Word because Scripture is all about Christ and he is the only sufficient means to bring about our reconciliation with the Father as the Spirit produces faith and repentance in the hearts of those who hear or read about Christ in his Word.
Priesthood of Believers
We are committed to loving God and our community together as a community that engages in all aspects of life. We all have the gifts of the Spirit, we all have the mind of Christ, we all have access to the Father, and we all admonish, encourage, and help each other to the glory of God.
Hopeful Evangelism
We are committed to loving our communities including Calistoga, the Napa Valley, the Bay Area, and the world by bringing the hope of the gospel to everyone we encounter at home or abroad.
Our Strategy:
HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO IT?
ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY
We start by loving God and our community through the Spirit empowered proclamation of Christ in his Word to everyone we encounter in our local context.
MAKE DISCIPLES
We then continue to teach those believers, whether new or seasoned, to love God and our community more and more through weekly meetings while continuing to engage our community.
PLANT A REPRODUCING CHURCH
Finally, we gather those believers into an identifiable group to continue loving God and our community as a corporate whole to engage not only our community, but the whole world with the love of God.
MEASURES:
When are we successful?
Milestone #1: ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY
Action: Begin weekly hospitality and intentional gospel conversations with those in the community.
Goal: To see people come to new life in Christ through faith in him, and to see believers join God’s work in Calistoga.
Milestone #2: MAKE DISCIPLES
Action: Begin weekly gatherings focusing on teaching and fellowship.
Goal: To continue seeing people come to new life in Christ, and to unify the people toward the common goal of loving God and our community.
Milestone #3: PLANT A REPRODUCING CHURCH
Action: Begin weekly worship services on Sunday mornings, and establish membership, ministry, and leadership structures.
Goal: To engage our community and the world with God’s love in the gospel most effectively
Our Vision:
Where is God taking us?
I see a vibrant, growing, and reproducing church in Calistoga partnering with other like-
minded churches to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the entire Napa Valley and
extending that love throughout the World through:
Calistoga Demographics:
Rough ethnicity spread:
58% White (2900)
39% Hispanic (1950)
3% Other (150)
Age spread:
14% under 18 (700)
59% adult under 65 (2950)
27% senior 65+ (1350)
Focus demographic: young families regardless of nationality.
Young families consist of the majority of the age spread touching the entire spread through grandparent relationships. The ethnicity spread shows a fairly even split between white and Hispanic so efforts will be made to include both English and Spanish speaking households.
Focus ministry areas include emotional/relational needs and understanding the need for Christ among those who may place their security in other people, money, and possessions.
Why Calistoga, CA:
God providentially placed the city of Calistoga in our field of view and supernaturally placed a burden for that city within our hearts.
We need more churches order to adequately reach Calistoga, the Napa Valley, the Bay Area, and the world for Christ.
Calistoga is one of many places in the Bay Area that has a severe deficit of evangelical churches sharing the love of God in Christ with their community.
What do we need?
PRAYER
Pray for the hearts of the people in Calistoga to be open to the gospel.
Pray for the love of God to be displayed sacrificially among God’s people.
Pray for our strength and faithfulness to do what God wants us to do.
Pray for our family to grow in love and selflessness.
PEOPLE
We need more people to join us in our effort to bring the love of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ to the community.
PARTNERS
We need a total of $160,000 committed annual support for three years from the launch of the church plant to be financially free to minister the most effectively in Calistoga.
CURRENT PARTNERS
$15,000/year for 3 years committed from Send Network.
$24,000/year for 3 years committed from our sending church.
PARTNERS NEEDED
Churches
2 X $1000/month
3 X $750/month
4 X $500/month
5 X $250/month
Individuals
5 X $250/month
6 X $100/month
7 X $50/month
8 X $25/month
Lead Church Planter:
Jason Hunt
Jason was raised in Grass Valley, CA, a small, rural town similar to Calistoga, and was saved at the age of eight. He graduated from The Master’s College with a degree in Music Composition and has served in music ministry for over two decades.
Jason is currently pursuing his MDIV at Cornerstone Seminary in Vallejo, CA and serves as the Associate Pastor and SEND Church Plant Intern at Trinity Benicia.
He and his wife Christin live in the Upper Napa Valley with their four children (16, 13, 10 and 0).