What is the Deeper Discipleship Initiative?
The Deeper Initiative is a 2-year discipleship initiative where we’re begging God to give us a deeper desire for himself and, as a result, see the ministry, multiplication, and mission of Mercy Hill Church go wider through us! We believe that how we go deep over the next 2 years will set the trajectory for the next 10-year, God-sized vision. God is calling us to go deeper in discipleship here in the Triad, multiply more campuses and churches through our new Home and Hub, and take advantage of new mission opportunities to see the gospel go wider than ever before!
Praise God for His blessings, and continue to beg Him for more!
Hey Mercy Hill! 2024 is almost over, and the reality is that we’re starting to approach the end of the Deeper Initiative. Through this 25-month initiative, we’ve been asking God to give us a deeper desire for Himself, and we’ve been praying and working to raise $30M to see the ministry, multiplication, and mission of Mercy Hill Church go wider through us. So many of you have given faithfully through Deeper every step of the way, and for that, I sincerely want to say thank you! Many of you have gone above and beyond your original commitments, and I couldn’t be more grateful.
While we anticipate big things in the future that are going to come from what God has done during this time, we’re also seeing Him move in mighty ways in the “right now.” We are experiencing explosive growth in all of our age-based ministries. We are seeing more and more people lay their “yes” on the table with missions, adoption, and foster care. Lastly, we are seeing growth at all of our campuses across the Triad. Praise God with me for His blessings, and as always, continue to beg Him for more!
Pastor Andrew and Anna Hopper,
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
– Psalm 1:3
PRIMARY GOAL
100% Engagement With Our Hearts & Hands
WITH OUR HEARTS
Is God your deepest desire? We are praying that every person at Mercy Hill will deepen their relationship with Jesus in this season and make him their deepest desire. As Psalm 42:1-2 says, we want our souls to thirst after God himself.
WITH OUR HANDS
Does the way we live our life reflect God as our deepest desire? When God becomes the deepest desire of our hearts, he opens our hands for a life of generosity and mission! This is why we are praying that every person that calls Mercy Hill home will engage with the Deeper Initiative by opening our hands in generosity and going deeper into our commitment to the mission.
SECONDARY GOAL
Mission Advancement Over 2 Years — $30M
Deeper
Ministry
$15 Million
Through a deeper investment in discipleship… our core mission of making disciples and multiplying churches happens through the Acts two flywheel: Gather, Groups, Give, and Go. In this season we want to make a deeper investment in our campuses, discipleship ministries, and ongoing church planting and mission efforts.
Deeper Multiplication
$10 Million
Through a new Home and Hub… Over the next two years, we will establish a new Home and Hub of Mercy Hill Church on 23 acres in a central location in the Triad. This Home and Hub will be a launching pad for church plants, new campuses, seminary students, new residents, as well as host our broadcast campus.
Deeper
Mission
$5 Million
Through new mission opportunities… We plan to deepen our mission efforts like funding more short-term mission trips, scaling adoption and foster care ministry, planting more campuses through mergers, scaling our worship culture, residency scholarships, and a deeper comitment to give towards international missions.