For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:16–17
Faith is where the Christian life begins, but it doesn't end there.
When we first hear and believe the Gospel, everything changes. We are forgiven, made new, and brought into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. But the power of the Gospel is not limited to the moment we are saved. The same Gospel that saves us continues to shape every part of our lives.
Paul writes in Romans 1:16–17, "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." He goes on to say that in the Gospel, "the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith," and reminds us that "the righteous shall live by faith." This is the heart behind our theme this year: Everyday Faith.
Romans shows us just how powerful the Gospel really is. It changes the way we think, the way we work, the way we love our families, the way we walk through suffering, and the way we respond to the needs of others. Faith is not something reserved for the biggest moments of our lives. Following Jesus requires faith every single day.
And when we live by faith, God uses ordinary acts of obedience to accomplish extraordinary things.
This brochure includes $1,000,000 in projects that put Everyday Faith into action. You will see opportunities to care for people here in Riverside, strengthen churches, develop leaders, support our Global Partners, and take the Gospel to people around the world. Each project is an opportunity for us to put our faith into action.
Throughout the year, our General Fund faithfully supports our Global Partners and helps sustain the ministries God has called them to. The Love Offering allows us to go even further. These projects help take ministries to the next level, meet needs that otherwise could not be met, and remind our partners around the world that they are not doing this work alone.
Our faithfulness here helps make their faithfulness there possible.
My prayer is that as you read through these projects, you will ask the Lord how He is calling you to respond. Every gift is an act of faith and a chance to trust God with what He has entrusted to us. And together, our Everyday Faith can help more people experience the life-changing power of the Gospel.
May we be a people who not only come to Jesus by faith, but who also continue to live by faith every day as we pursue our vision of Being Changed by God to Reach All People.
In faith,
Daniel Bishop, Lead Pastor
Reaching Our World
Global Partner Home ADU
Many of our Global Partners give up the comforts of home to carry the Gospel to the unreached, and one of their biggest challenges is finding a place to stay when they return home on assignment. For years, The Grove's Mission Home has met that need, providing Global Partners with a safe place to rest, reconnect, and prepare for their next season of ministry. After serving so many families, it was time for the Mission Home to grow. This past year, we found that room: The Grove purchased a new property for the Mission Home, one with space to do even more for the families who stay there. It's already welcomed Global Partners and their families while they're stateside, and the Global Partner families who've stayed there call it a blessing.
This new property also has room for a 1,200-square-foot ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) in the back, and this year, we're building it. Adding this ADU will double the Mission Home's capacity to care for Global Partners on home assignment, allowing us to serve multiple families at the same time, right when they need it most. Your Love Offering will fund its construction, providing even more of the partners we send into the world with a place to rest, reconnect, and prepare before they return to the field.
Photos: The backyard of our Mission Home, where we will construct an ADU, and a mock-up of the ADU
Global Partner Care Teams and Reentry Support
Christ called His followers to go and make disciples of all nations, and Global Partners give their lives to answer that call, carrying the hope of Jesus to some of the least-reached places on earth. But that call was never meant to be carried alone, it takes a church willing to hold the rope. Left unaddressed, the wear of years overseas, financial strain, and the eventual challenge of reentry can push faithful workers off the field before their work is done.
This year, The Grove will continue strengthening our care for Global Partners at every stage, including pastoral care, counseling resources, and a support structure for those transitioning home. Your Love Offering helps make this care possible, keeping our Global Partners on the field for the long run.
Photo: The first annual Global Partner Care Team Conference
Mobilization Pipeline
The Grove's vision is to reach all people, and that means training and sending the workers who will carry the Gospel to the ends of the earth. The Mobilization Pipeline builds a conviction for the unreached and a heart for disciple-making across our church. In the past three years, hundreds have been trained through the Mission of God Class and disciple-making tools, sixteen have completed the nine-month Pipeline, and seven are now serving on the field or preparing to go. This year, your Love Offering will fund the training materials, team gatherings, vision trips, and kickoff events that keep the Pipeline sending the next wave of workers for the harvest.
Photo: An exhibit used by the Mobilization Team to highlight the great need for Global Partners, representing the approximately 7,000 unreached people groups around the world
New Global Partners
This year, The Grove is expanding its family of Global Partners around the world. We are sending Abe C. to Southeast Asia and beginning to support three additional Global Partner families: Darren and Janelle M. in Southern Europe, Phillip and Kristen P. in Southwest Asia, and Jeff and Kathy Phillips in South America. Together, they are carrying the Gospel to unreached people groups and strengthening national church partners, using their gifts to open doors where Christ is not yet known. Your Love Offering helps provide the first year of support for new Global Partners, after which their ongoing support becomes part of The Grove’s General Fund.
Veterinary Training Facility
Mongolia
In Mongolia, many herding families depend on their animals for nearly everything, from food and warmth to their livelihoods. That makes the veterinarian one of a family's most trusted connections to the outside world, and V.E.T. Net (Veterinary Education Training Network) has spent three decades turning that trust into Gospel opportunity. Born out of Christian Veterinary Mission's work in Mongolia, V.E.T. Net trains Mongolian veterinarians and serves herding families across the country. Global Partners Michael and Hillary Mincher meet Mongolian herders, students, and professionals where they live, inviting them to encounter the One who made all living things.
For nine consecutive years, V.E.T. Net's Large Animal Internship Program has trained veterinary graduates. Many have come to faith and now reach their own communities with the Gospel. But Mongolia's brutal winters have always forced this work to pause for months at a time, cutting off training and outreach for half the year.
This year's project ends that pause for good: a climate-controlled large animal clinic, the first and only facility of its kind in the region. It will keep training, discipleship, and Gospel conversations going all year, no longer at the mercy of the season. Your Love Offering will help make this a reality, matched by another partner to double the impact.
Displaced Families Relief
Lebanon
Over one million people have been registered as displaced in Lebanon due to the ongoing effects of war, including thousands of children, families who have lost their homes, and communities with nothing left to return to. In this moment of crisis, local churches have a remarkable opportunity to show the love of Christ in practical ways.
Global Partner Martin C., who normally coordinates diaspora outreach among Muslims in Europe, is equipping these churches to meet this urgent need. Your Love Offering will help fund food, clothing, mattresses, hygiene products, and school supplies, along with the logistics and relationship-building visits to families. As those relationships open doors, local churches will provide Bibles and evangelistic materials, connecting people searching for hope with believers who can walk with them.
Water Filters and Gospel Outreach
Cuba
In rural Cuba, access to clean water is a daily struggle, yet it is also a door wide open for the Gospel. Global Partner Kevin Lillestrand is partnering with local pastors and Filter of Hope to provide water filters to families in underserved communities. Pastors and teams go door to door, distributing filters and sharing the message of Jesus, the One who offers water that leads to life that never ends.
This proven model connects practical need with Gospel proclamation, and house churches are already in place to follow up with new believers. Your Love Offering will help provide filters for 375 families, each one an invitation to a conversation about starting a relationship with Jesus.
Ministry Truck
Chile
Global Partner Kyle Kallestad serves throughout Santiago and southern Chile with IberoAmerican Ministries, a church-planting network spanning South America. His work includes equipping local church planters and transporting teams, and he regularly travels to Ralco, an indigenous Pehuenche community in the remote Alto Biobío region. Kyle’s current truck has served the ministry faithfully for years, but new city emissions rules keep it out of Santiago for much of the fall and winter, right when it’s needed most. Your Love Offering will help fund a reliable replacement, keeping Kyle on the road and faithfully present with the communities God has placed in his path.
Photo: Kyle (pictured far right) visiting a local community in Ralco
Himalayan Children Jackets
South Asia
High in the Himalayas, in a region where Christianity has long faced suspicion, something as simple as a warm coat can begin to change everything. Many Tibetan communities live in deep poverty, where harsh winters and a short growing season make farming nearly impossible, and children are often pulled from school to help their families survive.
Global Partner Phurpu is helping provide school bags and winter jackets to protect these children through the cold months ahead. It is a small gift with a much larger purpose. Every jacket given and every bag provided is a visible act of love in a place where love from a Christian has rarely been offered before. Your Love Offering will help fund this distribution, planting seeds of trust that could soften generations of resistance and open doors that have long been closed.
JAARS Medical Stretcher
Papua New Guinea
Global Partners John and Kim Marselus serve with JAARS (Jungle Aviation and Relay Services) in Papua New Guinea, where many of the people they reach are extremely isolated, and an airplane is the only way in or out. When someone needs medical attention, JAARS aircraft are often the only way to reach them, sometimes flying an injured person on the plane’s floor because there is no better option.
A specialized medical stretcher changes that. It stores compactly in the aircraft’s cargo compartment, assembles in minutes, and attaches securely for transport, giving John and Kim’s team the ability to safely move a patient for care hundreds of miles away when timing is critical. Your Love Offering will help fund this stretcher, equipping them to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the moments people need it most.
Texas-Mexico Border
Decades ago, Riverside Union Church (now The Grove Community Church) sent its first Global Partner, Ray Morelock, to serve students in Reynosa, Mexico, along the Texas-Mexico border. That same commitment to go still shapes who we are today. This year, a team of couples will return to the region where those first ministries took root and where the work has continued to grow. Serving alongside local ministry partners, they will invest in students, distribute food, and share God's love with families who have very little. Along the way, they'll see firsthand how God is still at work where it all began. Your Love Offering will help fund this trip, honoring the faithfulness that sent our first Global Partner while continuing to share the love of Christ today.
Gym and Community Ministry
Southern Europe
In a post-war country in the Balkans, Global Partner Charissa S. is using a gym and coffee shop to reach people who would never enter a church. The ministry meets physical health needs through fitness and relational needs through community, creating space for conversations about faith and the person of Jesus. In a majority-Muslim context where direct religious engagement often meets resistance, the gym has become a place where trust is built and the Gospel can be shared. Classes have grown so full that limited equipment now caps how many people can join. Your Love Offering will fund gym equipment, so more people can train, build relationships, and enter the spiritual conversations already happening at the gym.
Missionary Training Center Foundation
Mexico
El Monte is a camp and missionary training center that hosts nearly 1,300 campers each year and prepares missionaries for the world's least-reached regions. As its ministry grows, El Monte needs a new meeting space where campers gather for worship and teaching and where missionaries in training are equipped before they go. This year, our HANDS trek will pour a large concrete slab to complete this new space. What starts as a slab of concrete becomes a place where faith is developed and nurtured, and where people experience the mission of Christ firsthand. Your Love Offering will fund this project, laying a foundation for ministry that will reach far beyond Mexico.
Worship Center Renovation
Chile
For more than twenty-five years, Oriente Church, a church and school in Maipú, Chile, has been a place where families encounter Jesus for the first time. It's led by Global Partners Doug and Shelly Kallestad and by IberoAmerican Ministries. Five hundred schoolchildren and their families pass through the auditorium every day, for assemblies, activities, worship services, and community gatherings. Last year, your Love Offering helped improve the facility's exterior. This year, the interior needs the same care. Your Love Offering will help fund materials for the floor renovation, with volunteer labor from the church significantly reducing costs. The result will be a safer, more welcoming space where Doug and Shelly can keep proclaiming the Gospel for another generation.
Remember Nhu Fruit Trees
Thailand
For over a decade, The Grove has partnered with Remember Nhu to protect at-risk children from trafficking in Thailand, where their homes provide daily care, education, stability, and the love of Jesus. This year’s partnership focuses on sustainability: 40 to 50 fruit trees (mango, guava, longan, and pomegranate) planted on the property. Fruit is typically an extra expense, so the trees will provide nutritious food while lowering the home’s food budget. It's a small investment that will keep giving for years. Your Love Offering will help plant these trees for kids growing up safe, loved, and free.
House Build
Mexico
For many families in El Niño, Mexico, a safe and stable home is hard to come by. This year, a team from The Grove will travel there to serve alongside our partners in the region, Pastor Danny and Pastor Turi of Transformation Ministries, to build a home for a family in need. A home provides safety, stability, and a place to grow together, and every day on the build site is an opportunity to show them the love of Christ. Working side by side with these local pastors, the team will build relationships that continue long after the last wall goes up. Your Love Offering will fund the materials and build costs, helping a family move into a home of their own.
Ministry Vehicle
Chile
Global Partners Gus and Karissa Guevara have served in southern Chile for nearly twenty years, pastoring a local church in Lautaro and running a community center that consistently reaches families with the Gospel.
A persistent barrier to this ministry is transportation: getting children to activities, the elderly to medical appointments, and teams to ministry locations in a region where public transportation is unreliable and the weather is often unforgiving. A dedicated nine-passenger van would transform the ministry’s capacity to serve. Your Love Offering will help fund this vehicle, enabling the Guevaras to keep showing up for the people God has placed in their path.
Helping Global Partner Kids Thrive
One of the most common reasons Global Partners leave the mission field early is their children’s education. When a child has an undiagnosed learning difficulty and specialized testing isn’t available, families face an impossible choice: get their child help or stay in the calling they’ve been given.
Brad and Joyce Trottman, through Ministry Essentials International, provide psychoeducational assessments to Global Partner families across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Your Love Offering will help make these assessments possible around the world, keeping Global Partners equipped and on the field for the long haul.
Leadership Training and Bible Distribution
Southwest Asia
Iran is home to one of the fastest-growing churches in the world. Since war broke out there earlier this year, that growth has become even more remarkable, with house churches multiplying even as the ground shifts beneath them. For more than a decade, The Grove has partnered with Elam Ministries in a focused way, funding Bible distribution and support for Persian-speaking refugees. This work has quietly placed Scripture in the hands of believers who are ready for this exact moment. Your Love Offering will continue to fund this Bible distribution and refugee support, standing with a movement on the edge of something extraordinary.
Equipping Church Workers in Persecuted Areas
South Asia
For more than forty years, TENT Ministry has trained Indian Christian workers to share the Gospel and sustain themselves through bi-vocational skills. The Grove has partnered with them for over twenty of those years. This year, TENT is focusing on an urgent need: equipping Gospel workers from areas openly hostile to Christian witness, where they face false accusations, threats, and the psychological toll of sustained opposition. This training will equip thirty men and women with a biblical understanding of persecution, knowledge of their legal rights, trauma counseling, and vocational skills. Your Love Offering will cover travel, lodging, training expenses, and TENT’s follow-up support for every participant after they return home.
Moyo Church Plant
Uganda
What began as a vision and a piece of land has grown into a worshipping congregation in one of Uganda's most underserved regions. Moyo is the fifth church planted through The Grove's long partnership with Gulu Bible Community Church, following Anaka, Lira, Adjumani, and Kitgum. Those churches didn't stop there. Each has gone on to plant churches of its own, multiplying the Gospel across northern Uganda. In Moyo, construction is complete, and the congregation is gathering and growing under the leadership of Pastor John Okurokan. This is the final year of that partnership. Your Love Offering will provide ongoing pastoral support as this young church becomes self-sustaining, a lasting Gospel witness in a region where the need is immense.
Rural Pastoral Training
Malawi
Most church leaders in rural Malawi have never received formal training for the role they are called to. The Central African Preaching Academy (CAPA) is changing that, bringing training directly to where leaders live. The training site sits at Makanjira, one of the country’s most isolated and Muslim-dominated regions, where formal biblical training has never existed until now.
The Grove has partnered with Global Partners Kellen and Becca Hiroto and CAPA since 2018. Each cohort commits to three years of engagement, built around weeklong modules four times a year, with resources translated into Chichewa. This year, your Love Offering will fund two rural training cohorts, curriculum, instructor travel, food, books, and gatherings for mentorship, building a foundation of equipped shepherds for Malawi’s church.
Young Adult Discipleship Camp
Southwest Asia
Young believers make up less than 1% of the population in this Southwest Asian nation, and many go years without meeting another Christian their own age. That isolation makes it easy to stay quiet and hard to take the first step toward serving. Each summer, the Young Adult Discipleship Camp gathers young believers from churches across the country for worship, biblical teaching, and fellowship with others who share their faith. They return home encouraged, connected to one another, and ready to lead. Your Love Offering will fund scholarships and camp costs so more young people can be part of this gathering and return home strengthened to live for Christ in one of the hardest places in the world to do so.
Tibetan Scripture Engagement
South Asia
For decades, The Grove has walked alongside the effort to bring Scripture to the Tibetan people, and previous Love Offerings helped make that work possible. In 2023, it reached a long-awaited milestone: the New Tibetan Bible was printed.
The next step is to carry it further. Nearly seven million Tibetans live scattered across a vast and restricted region, and roughly 70% cannot read, so reaching them takes oral storytelling, audio, and video. Global Partners, the W and S Families, lead the Roof of the World initiative, carrying Scripture into this least-reached region through digital, print, and oral formats.
This year, your Love Offering will build on everything given before, funding oral Bible storytelling across three regions, a "Bible in One Year" app, updates to the "God Spoke Tibetan" book, and Bible distribution to a people who have waited generations to hear God's Word in their own language.
Digital Scripture Outreach
Southwest Asia
In this part of Southwest Asia, fewer than 10,000 believers live among a population of millions. For years, the only available Scripture used language that never quite connected with this tradition-steeped people, creating more of a wall than a bridge. A new translation, fifteen years in the making, was built to change that. The New Testament was released in 2014, and the complete Bible was finished last year. Now comes the next step: getting it into the hands of people who have long been suspicious of anything with a modern, Western feel. Global Partners D & K are building a digital strategy to do just that through app development, social media, and content production that meet people where they already are. Your Love Offering will fund the app, advertising, and content that carry this Bible to those most ready to receive it.
Digital Outreach to Unreached Turks
North Macedonia
North Macedonia is home to a Turkish-speaking community that remains 100% unreached. The M Family is working to change that through a targeted digital strategy: a custom website, Instagram campaigns, and Google Ads. When people respond, they are connected with a believer for conversation, which moves toward in-person Bible study.
This approach has already proven fruitful among Turkish people in Turkey, where 65% of believers first came to know Jesus through advertisements. Now the M Family is bringing that same model to Turks in North Macedonia. Your Love Offering will fund website hosting, ad campaigns, and content production, with the goal of seeing the first believers and church plants emerge.
Scripture Translation
Southeast Asia
For hundreds of years, Islam has been part of the cultural identity of the Apiso-speaking people of Southeast Asia, and until recently, they had no Scripture in their own language. That is beginning to change. A team of national Scripture engagement workers is translating God's Word into Apiso, starting study groups, and serving alongside the area's small minority church.
This year, your Love Offering will fund the printing of 1,000 copies of the book of Psalms, giving the team rich material for Scripture studies and encouraging content to draw seekers online. It will also cover training in digital distribution, helping the team build a local website and social media campaigns that carry God's Word to Apiso Muslims who are open to studying it.
Reaching Our Community
Deaf Camp for Kids
Riverside is home to a significant and vibrant deaf community, anchored by the California School for the Deaf and the many deaf families who have made this city their home. For years, The Grove's Deaf Ministry has reached and discipled this community in their heart language, American Sign Language.
Last year, in partnership with Brentwood Baptist Deaf Church, we hosted the first Deaf Camp Riverside, a four-day experience for children in the Southern California deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Twenty-nine campers attended, and families who had never connected with a church came back to our Deaf Ministry in the months that followed. This year, the camp returns, and your Love Offering will fund activities, meals, supplies, and the partnerships that make it possible for every child to encounter Jesus in their heart language.
Residency Program
At The Grove, we choose to invest deeply in the future of the Church through our Residency Program. We provide each resident with mentorship from experienced pastors, hands-on leadership experience, theological training, and opportunities to serve in cross-cultural contexts. This program is designed not only to produce ministry workers but also to form the character and calling of men who will go on to plant churches, revitalize struggling congregations, and take the Gospel to the nations. Your Love Offering helps provide the resources that make this investment possible.
Photo: Grantham, our first graduate from the Residency Program, who leads a church revitalization at Church on the Thames in South West London
Community Events
Every year, events like the Christmas Tree Lighting, Easter Egg Hunt, and Water Mania draw tens of thousands of people to our campus, many of whom would otherwise never set foot in a church. For many families, these gatherings are their first connection to The Grove, and often the beginning of a journey toward Jesus.
These events serve as an essential part of how we live out our vision of being a church that reaches all people. Year after year, God uses these moments to break down barriers, build trust, and create natural openings for Gospel conversations. Your Love Offering makes it possible to host these events and ensure that every person who walks through our doors is welcomed with the warmth and love of Christ.
Adoption Support
Adoption is a picture of the Gospel, and The Grove wants to help families live it out. Your Love Offering provides practical support, helping cover legal fees, counseling, home requirements, and daily needs for Grove families navigating the adoption and foster care journey. These investments help families say yes to the children God has placed in their path.
Photo: The Rodriguez family celebrating the adoption of their son
Local Church Support
Each year, The Grove sets aside a portion of the Love Offering to support neighboring churches and church plants in need. Whether helping a congregation through a difficult season or resourcing a new ministry, this investment strengthens the body of Christ beyond our own walls, so the Gospel can go further.
Prison Ministry
The Grove's Prison Ministry brings trained members of Team Grove into local correctional facilities, including juvenile hall, where men, women, and young people are often most open to hearing about Jesus. A core group has completed the application and training process and is now beginning this work. Your Love Offering will provide the training, Bibles, and resources that sustain and grow this ministry.
Engage Ministry
God is bringing the nations to Riverside, and the Engage Ministry exists to meet them. Every year, international students, refugees, and immigrants arrive in our city, many from places where the Gospel is unknown or churches are few. Some come to study, some to work, and some to start a new chapter for their families. Whatever brought them here, many are looking for connection, community, and a place to belong.
Through ESL classes, outreach events, refugee welcome teams, and discipleship relationships, Engage equips our church to meet them where they are, helping them navigate a new culture while building friendships that open the door to the Gospel. Our vision of reaching all people starts right here at home. Your Love Offering will resource this ministry and help more people in our own city encounter Jesus.
PROMiSE Initiative
For years, The Grove has partnered with Olive Crest, which cares for abused, neglected, and at-risk children throughout Southern California through foster care and family preservation. In January 2025, they launched PROMiSE (Prevention and Restoration of Minors Impacted by Sexual Exploitation). The program stands in the gap for youth ages 12 to 18 caught in or recovering from sex trafficking, delivering crisis intervention and wraparound support for the teen and their family. In its first year alone, Olive Crest's Crisis Response Team has provided safe homes and counseling for 13 trafficking survivors and at-risk teens, recovery support for 34 youth overall, and training that equips adults and youth to recognize and respond to grooming. This is only the beginning. Your Love Offering will help fund this work, sustaining and expanding the Crisis Response Team's reach.
Perris Outreach
For more than a decade, The Grove has walked alongside the people of Perris, guided by a simple desire to love our neighbors in Jesus’ name. What began as food distributions and Bible clubs has grown into a thriving ministry that now reaches every corner of the community: from schools and senior centers to family homes and summer camps for children with incarcerated parents. Over the years, your Love Offering has made it possible to serve thousands of meals, provide children with life-giving camp experiences, and open doors for the Gospel in one of our region’s most underserved areas.
This year, your Love Offering will continue to sustain and strengthen this work under the leadership of Pastor Noland and his team in Perris. Through ongoing Bible clubs and Calicinto Ranch Camp, we will keep building relationships, meeting needs, and pointing our neighbors to the hope found only in Jesus.
Summer Camp Scholarships
Summer camp is a significant spiritual experience in a young person's life. Each year, nearly 1,000 Preteen, Junior High, and High School students gather for a week away from the noise of everyday life to worship together, hear biblical teaching, and encounter Jesus in powerful ways. Hundreds of students have come to faith at camp, and many more have taken bold steps that continue to shape their walk with God.
For some students, cost is the only barrier between them and this week. At The Grove, we are committed to ensuring that finances never keep a student from attending camp. Your Love Offering will fund scholarships that ensure every student who wants to go can go, because this week may be the one that changes everything.
Shelter Refurbishment
The Grove is a longtime partner of Path of Life Ministries, walking alongside them as they help men and women move out of homelessness and toward stability through emergency shelter, meals, job readiness, counseling, and spiritual care. Their Hulen Emergency Shelter is a vital lifeline for some of Riverside's most vulnerable residents, including families, seniors, and individuals fleeing domestic violence.
After twenty years of service, the facility is showing its age. Deferred maintenance has accumulated, and the space needs attention: paint, door and fixture repairs, improved security lighting, and upgraded video surveillance. Your Love Offering will help restore the Hulen Campus so it can continue to serve as a place of genuine care and Gospel-centered hospitality.
Serve Days
Faith is meant to be lived, not just believed. Serve Days are one of the most visible ways The Grove puts that conviction into practice. Throughout the year, hundreds from Team Grove spread across Riverside to paint schools, clean neighborhoods, serve local organizations, and care for those who have been overlooked. These are not only acts of charity. They are acts of faith, the daily, practical expression of a Gospel that changes everything it touches. Your Love Offering will fund the supplies, materials, and coordination that make these days possible and help us demonstrate, neighborhood by neighborhood, that everyday faith has hands.
Prayer Fountain
Prayer is central to who we are as a church, and we believe in its power to move hearts, heal what's broken, and change the course of a life. Years ago, we created a prayer walk around our campus, anchored in the Lord's Prayer, to give everyone who steps onto our campus a way to build a rhythm of prayer into their day. As construction on the Pavilion and Terrace continues, we will add a Prayer Fountain along that walk, in a place set apart that overlooks the city of Riverside. Our hope is that it becomes a place to stop, bring your prayers to God, and trust Him to move, overlooking the very city He's called us to reach.
Photo: A mock-up of the Prayer Fountain, which will be built along the Prayer Walk
Children’s Ministry Playground
The A-Building playground serves our Early Childhood and Preschool Ministries, providing our youngest kids with a place to play and grow every week. The current equipment has served them well for years, but it’s now old and worn. This project replaces it with new, safe, age-appropriate equipment, giving these ministries a space ready for the next generation of kids coming through our doors.
Photo: The A-Building’s current but dated playground equipment that will be replaced
The Future
of The Grove
This past year, The Grove took its first steps toward reimagining how our campus welcomes and gathers people. We redesigned our South Entryway to give everyone who walks through our doors a clearer, warmer first impression. We also began work on the Pavilion and Terrace, a new outdoor gathering space built for connection, from Wednesday night groups to weekend community.
As we look ahead, growth continues to be both a gift and a responsibility. Every new face represents someone God is drawing closer to Himself, and we want to steward that growth wisely by preparing for what's coming rather than simply reacting to it.
That growth is showing up most clearly on Wednesday nights. Grove Family Night remains one of our highest priorities, the place where whole families grow in faith together, with kids, students, and adults all learning and connecting on campus at the same time. Our current space is struggling to keep up with the growth. Weekend attendance is feeling that same pressure as more and more people call The Grove home.
We are exploring solutions to make room, such as new student spaces, reimagined family ministry spaces, additional venues on campus, and other options as our needs continue to evolve. Whatever shape these next steps take, they serve our vision of Being Changed by God to Reach All People, making room for every person who comes through our doors to meet Jesus and grow in Him.
Every dollar given to the Love Offering above the $1,000,000 goal will go toward the future of The Grove, completing the Pavilion and Terrace and helping us take these next steps. A generous family in the church has committed to matching those gifts dollar for dollar, up to $1,000,000, doubling the impact of every gift given above the goal.
God isn't done bringing people to The Grove, and together, we can make room for everyone He's bringing next.
Responding to God’s Voice
God has laid before us some amazing opportunities. These initiatives will only be accomplished as we learn to live by faith. Now it is up to you. How will you respond?
Love Offering Goal = $1,000,000
On the weekend of November 14 and 15, 2026, we will receive the 2027 Love Offering that is dedicated to accomplishing these initiatives. Falling short of the goal will simply mean that the most important projects get funded, but others will have to wait.
$1,000,000 is a big goal, and it will take the commitment and faith of the whole Grove family, plus God’s faithfulness and provision, to make this happen. We invite you to be a part of what we believe God will accomplish this year by giving in faith toward these opportunities.
One-time Gift
As you pray about making a gift to the 2026 Love Offering, there are two options you might consider. The first is simply making a one-time gift. This gift can be made anytime after October 24 until December 31, 2026.
12-month Pledge
The second option is to make a Faith Pledge to give over the next 12 months. You can fill out a Faith Pledge in The Grove App, or you can complete a printed Pledge Card and place it in the giving box. This is a commitment to give based on your faith that God will enable you to give even if you don’t see how today. Many have found this method to work best and discovered they can actually give more when they give systematically. It is a spiritually stretching experience.
FAQ’s
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We are asking everyone to consider making a Love Offering gift over and above their regular giving. Regular giving (tithe) is used to support normal church operations and ministries. The Love Offering will fund these special opportunities presented in this brochure.
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You may make a one-time gift anytime after October 24 until the end of the year. Each year, many in our church family choose to make a Faith Pledge and give periodically over the next 12 months. There is more information online at thegrove.cc/pledge.
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The amount of your gift is a personal decision that should be made after seeking God in prayer. It is between you and God. We encourage you to depend on God’s ability and faithfulness to provide when you give rather than just your own ability. Experiencing His faithfulness to help you give is a faith-building event.
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When you give online, please select “Love Offering” from the drop-down menu. Donations made in person or by mail can be labeled as “Love Offering.” This will make sure it is recorded correctly when received.
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In addition to giving online, you may mail a check to the church office or place your gift in the giving box after service. You may also use The Grove App or click here to make a one-time gift or to set up a schedule to give periodically.
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As the name indicates, this is a step of faith, trusting God to provide as you stretch beyond your comfort to give the amount God places on your heart. A Faith Pledge depends on God to provide for you. You can make a pledge online, or pledge cards will be available at the Welcome Counters.
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In 2026, we were able to fulfill every opportunity because of your faithful and generous giving. We believe that in 2027 God will help us do that again. If we do fall short, the Elder Board and staff will prioritize the projects, deciding which projects will move forward and when. Every effort will be made to complete as many of the projects as possible with the funds provided.
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If you have additional questions about the Love Offering, please contact us by emailing or by calling (951) 571-9090.
The Goodness of God
Praise God for the 46 ways He was faithful through our 2026 Love Offering!
In Genesis 1:31, we read, “And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” From the very beginning, the goodness of God has been on display. Throughout Genesis, we see a God who creates, provides, keeps His promises, and remains faithful to His people, even in the midst of brokenness.
This goodness extends far beyond the Love Offering. Every day, we have the opportunity to recognize His goodness, trust His faithfulness, and reflect His goodness to the people around us. Whether across the street or around the world, God invites us to be part of the good work He is doing.
As we look ahead, let us continue to trust the God who has been good from the very beginning. May we faithfully follow where He leads, point others to His goodness, and always remain a church Being Changed by God to Reach All People.
Love Offering Impact
Through the Years
2014
2015
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2019
2020
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2026