5% Back to the Community

The Vineyard Church Generosity Fund continues in 2024!  All this year we’re giving 5% of our general offerings back to our community.

In the fall of 2019, the leadership of Vineyard Church sensed God calling us to make 2020 a year for living generously.  In addition to our ministry to the poor and general budget expenditures for local, national, and global outreach, we felt led to give a set percentage of our monthly tithes and offerings to a local cause, charity, or ministry that was not affiliated with Vineyard Church.  In 2020, we gave away more than 35,000!  In 2021, we gave away more than $38,000!  In 2022, we gave away more than $35,000!  In 2023, we gave away more than $31,000!  And we’re doing it again in 2024!  This expression of generosity is made possible because of those who faithfully give to Vineyard Church.

Generosity Fund

January 2024

$2,500 to Heritage Academy. This inner-city independent Christian school serves children of diverse economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Heritage Academy empowers their students to become a positive influence for Christ in our community and around the world.  This year Vineyard Church has deepened our partnership with Heritage through mentoring and assistance with serving and outreach opportunities for their students.

February 2024

$2,500 to Christ Community Health. CCM’s mission is to proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and to demonstrate His love by providing affordable, quality health care.  CCM opened their Community Pediatrics office in early 2023.  Our gift will help CCM continue to provide quality medical and dental care to individuals and families in our community who have limited options.

March 2024

$3,700 to GAP Ministries. GAP Ministries serves Downtown Augusta as a “one-stop” service center to help people seeking to reclaim their physical and spiritual well-being.  GAP Ministries offers an extensive range of services including a food pantry, assistance with birth certificates and photo ID’s, and help with prescription medications.

April 2024

$2,750 to Columbia County Cares.  Columbia County Cares exists to provide food, health, and comfort items free of charge to under-served families in Columbia County.  This organization is operated completely by local volunteers who serve over 300 families each month.

May 2024

$3,200 to Prepare for Babies.  Prepare for Babies exists to help mothers who are afraid or unsure of how they will manage a crisis pregnancy situation – “Every mother supported…every child wanted!” Our gift will help purchase a Maternity House for mothers and babies from pregnancy up to the first eighteen months of a baby’s life.

June 2024

$3,000 to Full Circle Refuge.   Juvenile Justice Ministries.  Full Circle Refuge ministry utilizes local resources and Biblical principles to serve youth in the Southeast that are at-risk, incarcerated, or in an after-care program.  For more than thirteen years, FCR has been faithful in its mission to prevent or reduce delinquency, violence, and gang involvement among at-risk youth in the CSRA.

July 2023

$3,000 to Family Promise of Augusta.  Family Promise works to reduce the number of homeless families in our community. Our gift will help Family Promise purchase a new property that can house up to four homeless families, their administrative offices, and their childcare operation.  Currently there are 100 families on Family Promise’s waiting list.  Family Promise is the organization we work with to place families in Vineyard Church’s Compassion House.

August 2023

$2,000 to The RECing Crew.  This organization serves CSRA families with special needs members providing them with a variety of special leisure and recreational programs. Our donation will help offset the costs of these events for the families.

September 2023

$2,500 to Golden Harvest Food Bank.  This local agency helps feed the hungry in the 25 counties surrounding Augusta. Last year, Golden Harvest raised enough food and funds to provide more than 750,000 meals.  Golden Harvest is the primary source of food for VCA’s Storehouse Food Pantry. 

October 2023

$2,500 to Greater Augusta Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).  FCA’s mission is to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.  Our gift will support their outreaches to high schools in Richmond, Columbia, McDuffie, Lincoln, Wilkes, and Warren Counties.

November 2023

$2,250 to Project Refresh. This is a local organization that serves Augusta’s homeless by providing mobile showers at various locations throughout our community.  In 2024, Vineyard’s Storehouse will partner with Project Refresh once a month to provide hot showers to those in need. VCA’s gift will help fund this mobile operation and provide basic toiletries and supplies – providing hope one shower at a time

December 2023

$3,500 to LIVESTRONG the program of the Family YMCA of Greater Augusta.  LIVESTRONG helps adult cancer survivors reclaim their health and well-being following a cancer diagnosis.  Our donation will provide these individuals opportunities to improve their strength and physical fitness, diminish the severity of therapy side effects, and develop supportive relationships to help improve their quality of life.