Tuesday, June 7, 2016

We Need Your Support


Indy Anglican Network Appeal

“The Harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”  Matthew 9:37

Dave and Deb Kulchar are sensing God’s call to pull up our roots of 22 years in Flint, Michigan and help the pioneering work of growing disciple-making churches in Indianapolis and the surrounding area.  They favor a relational “Word and Sacrament” approach to ministry, and serve under the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes as a missionary priest couple.  

Dave brings nearly 35 years of ministry experience as a youth minister, parish priest, church planter, coach and consultant  to this ministry.  Deb brings many years of administrative experience in the churches they served, musical talents, and a strong supportive role while Dave served in full-time ministry.    

Exciting things are happening in Indianapolis.  There are several small Anglican congregations in the surrounding area already doing good work, a few new Anglican fellowships just getting started and the potential for more to be planted in Indianapolis and the surrounding region.  Their bishop and other leaders see this area as a region where faithful Bible-centered, Spirit empowered and sacramentally rooted communities can be planted and ought to grow and flourish.  


To join the team of other faithful ministers in this area, they are proposing the establishment of a full-time Network Leader/Church Planter position.  This position will help support the existing works by coaching, offering encouragement and establishing an active and functional leadership network.  This role would include providing pastoral support to area clergy in partnership with the Bishop in times of personal and family crisis and provide someone who is thinking and acting strategically to establish new work in the area.  

Often good coaches are good because they are practicing the work while they coach.  To that end, the Kulchars intend to join the people of All Souls Anglican Mission in Whitestown and help them grow their small house church into a thriving multiplying Anglican church ministry.  Using a  home group discipleship and leader mentoring model, members will minister to each other and impact the communities where they gather.   Our goal is to grow multiple groups which gather on Sundays around the Table of the Lord for teaching, worship, sharing and ministry.  

To enable the Kulchars to serve in this pioneering mission,  we (All Souls and the Kulchars) together need to raise $80,000 annually for the first two years.  The Lord has already provided us with a foundational pledge amount of $25,000.  We would like to ask you or your church or institution to become partners with us to help launch this work.  Please pray about this and please consider making a one time gift, or a monthly pledge to support this pioneering ministry for a 2 year startup period beginning July 2016.  It is our prayer that by the summer of 2018 the ministry will have grown through both conversion and new member growth so that this ministry will be fully self-supporting.

For those who contribute to this work, we pledge to keep you informed and up to date with how the Lord is using your charitable gift to help us advance the work with All Souls and the Indy Anglican Network.  We will be sending out regular progress reports via email, Facebook, and a Blog post which will include occasional video updates. For churches and other groups,  Dave would be eager to visit as needed to share about the impact of your support of new church    development in hopes of fostering a vision for supporting new work planting even after this Indy Project is self-supporting.  Each January, we will provide annual records of contribution to each donor for tax purposes.   

Tax Deductible Contributions can be sent via check and made out to:  All Souls Anglican
mailing address:    6702 E 535 S, Whitestown, IN 46075

Online Giving via Paypal:     http://www.indyanglican.net/giving.html

With your first contribution please send us an email address and phone number where we can reach you and where contribution records can be sent online or via regular mail.  


If you are feeling led to partner with us with a regular pledge please inform us of your intentions by sending us an email, text or by phone.  (810) 964-0432 or dkulchar1@sbcglobal.net 

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