Four years ago this September, Hillcrest began the Reveal, a movement designed to help us answer the question 'if we were to stop being a church, would anyone miss us?'. We polled the church for ways that we could impact the community, saw several themes, and designed ways each of us could make an impact. We set some program goals (such as sponsoring 10 adoptions) and some annual goals (such as supplying Cleveland with 60 mentors; this goal restarts each year). We've done great with some of the goals (the backpack program for instance) while others have been more challenging (we had 20 mentors last year and while that was our best year, we're still 40 short). But when we look at how things have went over the lsat 4 years combined, the results are as follows:
- Sponsored 6 adoptions
- Mentored over 50 kids
- Provided over 180 kids with a reading buddy who helped them with reading for 15 minutes a week
- Sponsored 650 backpacks for under-resourced children who have little to eat on the weekend
- Opened a tutoring center where 11 middle school students last year received focused homework assistance and the ability to build meaningful relationships with caring adults
- Planted a farm in Southern Sudan
While we have work to within each of these goals, it is encouraging to see the work that's been done during the last four years.
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