Your Year End Gift helps reach people for Jesus.

Local community outreach

Right here in the St Croix Valley

Your Year End Gift moves Embrace toward people in our own neighborhoods. It allows us to say yes to real needs in real time. Families walking through financial strain, single parents trying to keep things afloat, individuals carrying quiet burdens they didn’t expect to bear—your generosity meets them with the love and hope of Jesus.

This gift fuels the outreach that helps people who would never step into a church discover that God is closer and kinder than they imagined. It opens the door for conversations, moments of prayer, and small but life-changing reminders that they matter. It helps us create environments that are safe, welcoming, and full of joy for people who are unsure about faith or have been hurt by church in the past.

We also get to show up in the community through events that bring families together, build connection, and make Embrace a place where people feel like they belong long before they ever attend a Sunday service. Trunk or Treat, Back-to-School support, food drives, and community partnerships become more than programs—they become pathways where God softens hearts and writes new stories.

Your gift helps us love our community in ways that are simple, practical, and full of Jesus.

International missions

Haiti and Ukraine

Year End Gifts help us stand with trusted partners in Haiti and a brand new group of churches in Ukraine. In both places, the needs are significant, the obstacles are real, and yet the hope of Jesus is shining brightly through local pastors and leaders who faithfully love and serve their communities every single day.

In Ukraine, we are stepping into a meaningful new partnership with churches who are reaching people in the middle of profound hardship and uncertainty. As the war continues to impact families, young adults, and entire communities, local Ukrainian believers are offering both practical help and spiritual hope. Your gift helps us come alongside them, encouraging and resourcing the leaders who are caring for their people with courage and compassion.

This February, Pastor Austin and three leaders from Embrace will travel to northwest Ukraine on a visioning trip. The team will spend several days equipping forty to fifty young leaders, many of whom are carrying the weight of ministry in extremely challenging environments. We will provide resources, training, encouragement, and a deep reminder that they are not alone. Your generosity makes this possible.

In Haiti, where instability and hardship remain daily realities, your Year End Gift continues to support trusted partners who are feeding children, strengthening churches, caring for vulnerable families and the elderly, and sharing the love of Jesus in ways that are both practical and powerful.

Together, across oceans and borders, we get to help strengthen the global Church.

Please be praying:
For protection and peace over Ukraine, Haiti, and those who are faithfully serving there.
For the leaders who will gather in February.
For wisdom, clarity, and unity as Embrace builds long-term relationships.
For God to open doors we cannot yet see and to multiply every act of generosity.

This is more than a trip and more than an offering. This is the Church, standing together, reaching people that matter deeply to God.

Youth and Young Adults

A space to gather and grow

Your Year End Gift creates space for students and young adults to encounter Jesus in a real and personal way. It fuels weekly gatherings where they can slow down, breathe, and be reminded that they are seen and loved by God. It helps make retreats and special events possible—moments where walls come down, faith comes alive, and students hear God speak in ways they remember for years.

Your generosity also supports the smaller circles that matter so much: the late-night conversations, the honest questions, the safe places where they can wrestle with doubts, talk about real life, and discover that following Jesus is not something you do alone.

These gifts help build a community where young people form friendships that anchor them, find mentors who believe in them, and begin to step into the purpose God has placed on their lives. Your giving doesn’t just fund ministry. It invests in the future of the church and in the next generation God is raising up right here at Embrace.