Great news from our Liberty Church community in Sauerstown, Zimbabwe - they’ve launched a brand new ministry training program with seven emerging leaders in the first year’s intake.

Using some of the funds raised through last year’s Seed Offering we were able to help the team in Zimbabwe launch this much-needed program last month. Each of the interns is experiencing a mixture of structured leadership & spiritual development in group classes as well as practical ministry training through serving in the Sauerstown community.

We also want to thank John & Lisa Bevere and Messenger International for their incredible donation of training curriculums that the students will benefit from, as well as dozens of other pastors in the Celebration Church Network right across Zimbabwe. Partners like these and Children’s Cup are making all of this possible.

A huge welcome to the team to Victor, Mike, Andrew, Marian, Pride, Attitude and Sibonginkhosi! And we’re praying this year will be a phenomenal season of personal growth and fruitfulness.

Liberty Church is looking for a full-time staff member to fill a new position on our leadership team.

Update 2/18 - Deadline for resumes & expressions of interest is now 2/28/14

The successful candidate will have extensive leadership and management experience, understand deeply the vision & culture of Liberty Church, and see this role as a calling. It is a requirement of the role that the position be filled by someone planted in Liberty Church.

It’s mission is to provide infrastructure, management, resource and momentum to all the ministries and functions that serve the church as a whole.

Some elements of the job description are listed below. A full copy is available to potential applicants, please email [email protected] to request one.

The Central Ministries Director is responsible for the oversight, growth and leadership of the following ministry areas across Church:
• Visionaries
• All Team Meetings
• Worship Open Nights
• Liberty Sisterhood
• Pastoral Care
• Liberty City
• City-Wide Events
• Liberty Live
• Grow
• Community Groups

As well as leading the following business areas across the Church:
• Administration
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Web
• Creative
• Communications
• Marketing

Skills & Abilities:
• Strong Leader
• Outstanding project management skills
• Excellent communicator; able to build relationships across all areas of the Church
• Ability to lead others towards the vision of the Church
• Strong ability to build, monitor and steward the culture of the Church effectively
• Results oriented
• Collaborative and able to gather & utilize volunteers
• Growing and building a significant ministries and movements on a global scale and
managing multicultural teams
• Able to deal with numerous issues at one time and not be distracted from the vision
whilst managing the day-to-day work

Knowledge:
• Broad knowledge of all central ministries areas including finance, marketing, families, etc
• Strong financial stewardship or experience managing a similar P&L
• Familiarity with a range of systems and tools

Experience:
• All round senior management skills
• Strong Project management experience
• Growing and building a business on a global scale

For further information contact [email protected]

Deadline for initial expressions of interest and resumes to be submitted is Friday Feb 28th.

From the launch of Liberty Church Brooklyn on Jan 19th, 2014 at United Artists Cinema on Court St, Downtown Brooklyn.

Photos by Regina Mogilevskaya, Ben Van Den Heever, Andrew Matusik

If you might be interested in joining us for our next life-changing missions trip to Zimbabwe, then join us next Sunday Feb 2nd for our Information Session & lunch.

Information Session-
Date: Sunday, February 2
Time: 1PM
Place: Scholastic Building (557 Broadway), 2nd floor
Lunch will be provided

Trip dates- Apr 21st to May 1st
This trip will build on our previous projects with a focus on Sauerstown in Bulawayo. We will be visiting the care points, equipping and empowering local pastors and leaders, participating in kids’ programs with games and activities, helping with feeding programs, leading midweek and weekend church services, and serving the community by meeting a variety of needs.

You can get full details on the trip including schedules, costs and application process click here for more information.

Hope to see you at the Information Session - rsvp at the Connections Desk or email [email protected]

We were glad to see our new Brooklyn community getting some positive press on Sunday with so many new people turning out to our first service in the United Artists Cinema in Downtown Brooklyn.

We hope you’ll join us this Sunday if you live in Brooklyn!
Service: 9:30am
(The Lounge opens at 9:00am)
United Artists Cinemas
106 Court St (near Atlantic Ave), Brooklyn

News12 Report on the launch of Liberty Church Brooklyn from LibertyChurchNYC on Vimeo.

News 12 Report on Liberty Church Brooklyn from LibertyChurchNYC on Vimeo.

Photo by Regina Mogilevskaya

Paul & Andi would love for you to join us for Vision Sunday on January 26th. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to celebrate our third anniversary since we started weekly services as a church!

Vision Sunday is one of the highlights of the year as we look back on all that God has done, and look forward to the amazing vision ahead.

The services will include a video presentation and important announcements for the next stage of our journey together.

This is the perfect day to bring friends! And now we have three thriving communities to belong to-

BROOKLYN
Service: 9:30am
(The Lounge opens at 9:00am)
United Artists Cinemas
106 Court St (near Atlantic Ave), Brooklyn

LOWER MANHATTAN
Service: 11:00am
(The Lounge opens at 10:30am)
Scholastic Auditorium in SoHo
557 Broadway, New York

UNION SQUARE
Service: 7:00pm
(The Lounge opens at 6:30pm)
Union Square Ballroom
27 Union Square W #500, New York

2013 was a year of strengthened partnership with Children’s Cup and Celebration Church. It was also the year Liberty Church Zimbabwe took root in Sauerstown, Bulawayo. We look forward to what’s in store for 2014 as we prepare for our fourth missions trip back to Africa. We’d love for you to join our Spring Missions Trip that will take place from April 21^st - May 1^st.

Last trip our team co-hosted a Family Fun Day, a community outreach where over 750 people (mostly children) attended. That team included our youngest volunteer to date - six year old Jesse! During our stay, we continued partnering with the local church in building a community center and other facilities to serve their city; helped with school feeding programs and witnessed some amazing healing miracles among the people of Zimbabwe.

OVERVIEW
This trip will build on our previous projects with a focus on Sauerstown in Bulawayo. We will be visiting the care points, equipping and empowering local pastors and leaders, participating in kids’ programs with games and activities, helping with feeding programs, leading midweek and weekend church services, and serving the community by meeting a variety of needs.

In addition to serving and helping the incredible community work there, we will finish the trip with some sightseeing to take in the beauty of Zimbabwe. There will also be a chance to reflect on what we’ve experienced and seen as a team.

SCHEDULE
Here is a rough itinerary of what our trip (please keep in mind this is subject to change as needs arise within the ministries we will be working with):

Mon April 21^st

• Depart NYC for Africa, via Johannesburg

Tue 22^nd

• Arrive in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe!
• Meet the team; Dinner with some of the key team

Wed 23^rd – Fri 25^th

• Training local pastors and leaders
• Home visits in Sauerstown community
• Preparation for Saturday’s Family Fun Day outreach
• Feeding kids in the schools
• Midweek church services
• Hosting a special outreach at The Hideout
• Visit existing projects and new feeding programs
• Help with Kids Clubs
• An opportunity to visit your Children’s Cup sponsor children
• Dinner & vision night with Sauerstown team

Sat 26^th

• Family Fun Day – huge outreach in Sauerstown at the property
• Food & activities for the community on site

Sun 27^th

• Church services at Liberty Church Zimbabwe as well as Celebration Church Central
• Helping with ministry, worship and more

Mon 28^th

• Sightseeing – tour Victoria Falls; Sunset cruise
• Celebration dinner at The Boma
• Staying the night at the beautiful Kingdom Hotel

Tue 29^th

• Chobe Safari
• Last night in Victoria Falls

Wed 30^th

• Team Debrief
• Shopping
• Depart Africa

Thurs May 1^st

• Arrive home early AM

For further details, please join us at our Information Session
Date: Sunday, February 2
Time: 1PM
Place: Scholastic Building (557 Broadway), 2^nd floor
Lunch will be provided

TEAM NEEDS
Every team member will sign up for one of three teams. Each team has its own focus and training before the trip so that we can really serve, and not just spectate.

1. Kids Team – this team will be focused on providing ministry to children throughout the trip, through schools, outreaches and church services
2. Media Team – helping us capture & share the story of what God is doing in Zimbabwe, this team will be focused on taking photos and shooting video
3. Training Team – through workshops, planning meetings and one-on-one coaching, our training team will help equip local leaders to take their ministries to the next level

COSTS
Your trip expense will include airfare + ground costs (including all travel insurance, accommodations, food, transportation and the sightseeing experience).

• Ground costs with Hotel twin share $2685 (+estimated Airfare from NYC $1950*) = total trip expense $4635*
• Ground costs with Hotel single occupancy $3210 (+estimated Airfare from NYC $1950*) = total trip expense $5160*

* Please keep in mind that though our ground costs are set, airfare is always subject to change and we will not know the exact amount until flights are booked. Of course, we are working hard to ensure that we get the best possible price on everything.
* Please understand costs are subject to change
* Not included are your personal shopping, passports or vaccinations
* We are flying South African Airways, so frequent flyer points with Star Alliance can be used to cover your airfare

NEXT STEPS
If you’re interested, please begin the application process by:

1. Coming to our Information Session on Sun Feb 2 (details above)
2. Putting together your paperwork (Application form, Passport, Physician’s Waiver). If you’d like to get started now, just email [email protected])

KEY DATES
February 2 – Information Session
February 17 – Online Application and all paperwork due
March 1 – Ground Costs payment due to Children’s Cup
April 16 – Team Meeting

For more information on how to apply for this absolutely life-changing experience, please contact [email protected]

Hope you can join us!
Paul & Andi Andrew

“Once you go to Africa, you’ll go back in your mind every day for the rest of your life.”
-Dave Ohlerking, Children’s Cup Co-Founder

Our Lead Pastor, Paul Andrew, announced yesterday in our weekend services a historic result for this year’s Seed Offering.

Throughout the month of December, in addition to regular tithes for the ongoing operations of Liberty Church, our church and partners gave a combined…

$250,109.12

That represents an increase over $131,893.56 or 116% growth on last year’s result (and that was an amazing offering!). We were so thrilled to achieve what seemed like an impossible faith goal of $250,000.

You can read more about all the missions and church planting initiative we’ll be supporting with the Seed Offering here.

A huge THANK YOU to all the generous people who sowed seed into this harvest, and to the churches and ministries that joined us in sowing into the nations.