And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
Genesis 1:31
In the beginning…
After God created everything, He looked at it and repeated this simple but profound statement: It is good. And in these acts, He revealed something essential about His character: God is good, and His goodness is woven into the very fabric of creation. From the start, His world was marked by beauty, order, and life.
But the story of Genesis also reminds us that His goodness has been questioned from the very start. The serpent whispered doubt in the garden: Did God actually say…? (Genesis 3). Beneath that question was the same lie we still hear today: Can you really trust God’s goodness? In a broken world filled with pain, loss, and injustice, that question lingers. Yet again and again, Scripture shows us the answer — His promises stand, His presence remains, and His goodness keeps breaking through.
When God called Abraham, He promised that through his family all nations would be blessed (Genesis 12). Even in the betrayal Joseph endured, he could look back and say, “You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). These stories — from creation to covenant to redemption — reveal a God whose goodness is not undone by sin or suffering. His goodness endures forever, and it is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep.
In this brochure, you will see The Grove’s 2026 response to God’s call to proclaim His goodness. Each of these initiatives is a glimpse of His original design being restored in a broken world. We will provide safe places for children and families, strengthen churches where there were none before, train leaders for the harvest, and send workers to the nations. We will stand with our neighbors through practical care, and we will walk alongside our Global Partners as they shine the light of Christ in hard-to-reach places.
These projects are not simply tasks to complete. They are testimonies that God is still good, still present, and still working. Through them, His declaration from the beginning — it is very good — will break through in lives and communities across Riverside and around the world.
And that is why we keep showing up. Because when we invest in projects like these, we are not just funding ministry; we are declaring something bigger. We are saying to the world — and to ourselves — that even when life is uncertain, God is steady. Even when sin has broken what He once called good, His redemption is stronger. Even when the serpent’s old question comes whispering again, we respond with faith: Yes, our God is good. Always.
Like a stream, His goodness flows steadily through every valley and every season. It moves quietly but powerfully, bringing life wherever it runs. My prayer is that as you read through these stories and initiatives, you will be encouraged to see His goodness afresh — in creation, in redemption, and in the mission we share together. And I pray that as a church family, we will continue to live out our vision of Being Changed by God to Reach All People.
With gratitude and hope,
Daniel Bishop, Lead Pastor
Perris Outreach
In 2015, The Grove stepped into Perris with a simple desire to love our neighbors in Jesus’ name. Ten years later, that vision has grown into a thriving ministry touching every corner of the community — from schools to senior centers to family homes.
Over the past decade, your Love Offering has made it possible to send children with incarcerated parents to Calicinto Ranch Camp, reach students through After-school Bible Club, provide meals for seniors, and meet practical needs for families. Behind every camp experience, meal served, and child cared for is a story of trust built, hope shared, and doors opened for the Gospel, with many starting a first-time relationship with Christ.
This year marks the tenth year of partnership, and we are excited to see what God will do in the future. Through your Love Offering, we will continue to build relationships, meet needs, and point our neighbors in Perris to the goodness of God.
Prison Ministry
Prisons are often places marked by regret, brokenness, and searching — yet even there, God’s grace is not out of reach. Recently, a local correctional facility contacted The Grove with an invitation to come and share the Gospel because they had seen the difference made when faith-based groups visited. The need is real, and we want to answer that call.
This year, The Grove is launching the Prison Ministry to bring the hope of Christ behind bars. Trained volunteers will step into facilities to listen, pray, and share God’s Word with men and women who are often more open in these moments to consider the new life Jesus offers.
Your Love Offering will provide training, Bibles, and resources to begin this ministry well. Together, we believe God can bring restoration and new beginnings — even behind prison walls — as we respond to this door God has opened.
Easter and Community Events
Every year, The Grove opens its doors wide through our Easter Weekend Services and community events like the Christmas Tree Lighting, Water Mania, and Easter Egg Hunt. These gatherings may look familiar, but their impact is always new. For many, it’s their first time stepping onto our campus. For others, these events are the connection point that brings them back for worship, groups, or a second conversation with someone they met here.
These gatherings aren’t side projects — they are an integral part of how The Grove lives out the Gospel in our community. Year after year, God uses these events to break down barriers, build trust, and create natural opportunities for people to take their first steps toward Jesus.
Through your Love Offering, these moments are possible. Each smile, each handshake, and each invitation opens the door for the Gospel to be shared.
Serve Days
At The Grove, we are passionate about loving the people in our own backyards. Serve Days are one of the ways we live that out together. Every year, our church family spreads out across the community to paint schools, clean up neighborhoods, visit the lonely, and bless local organizations. Last year alone, over 500 volunteers completed 50 projects in our area. These simple acts reflect the goodness of God in tangible ways and show our neighbors that they are seen and loved.
Serve Days are more than projects — they are expressions of God’s heart for people. They strengthen relationships, open doors for future ministry, and demonstrate that the Gospel is not only spoken but lived.
Through your Love Offering, we are able to provide the tools, supplies, and coordination that make these moments possible. Together, we declare God’s goodness in the places we call home.
Ball Field Restrooms
The Grove’s Sports Ministry has become one of the largest outreach opportunities on our campus, drawing thousands each weekend to watch games, build community, and engage in Gospel-centered conversations. With thousands of children involved in soccer and flag football, our fields are filled with life — more than 5,000 parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends come together each weekend to play, cheer, and connect. Sports have become one of the most visible ways we open our campus to our neighbors and share the love of Christ.
But with this growth comes practical challenges, such as the restrooms. Current facilities are too few and too far away, creating challenges for families and limiting our ability to host this growing ministry with care.
This year, your Love Offering will help fund additional restrooms at our ball fields. By addressing this basic but important need, we can better serve our community and continue making space for meaningful connection.
Residency Program
Equipping Leaders for the Future
Across America, churches are facing a growing leadership gap. Studies show that only 16% of pastors are under 40 while 33% are 60 or older, leaving thousands of churches at risk of having no shepherd in the coming years. Churches depend on strong, godly leaders, and the need to invest in them has never been greater.
That’s why The Grove invests in a full-time Residency Program, preparing the next generation of pastors and ministry leaders. Residents receive mentorship from our pastors, theological training, and hands-on leadership opportunities that equip them for long-term ministry.
In recent years, this has already borne fruit as residents Grantham and Abbey Wash and Hudson and Sarah Caldwell have stepped into church revitalization. This year, your Love Offering will continue to support their launch while also preparing for the next class of residents. Together, we are helping ensure the church remains strong for generations to come.
Top: Grantham Wash leads Church on the Thames, formerly Hampton Wick Baptist Church.
Bottom: Hudson Caldwell leads Heart of the Canyons Church - Sunland Campus.
Summer Camp Scholarships
Summer Camp is the single greatest outreach our youth ministries lead each year. Our camps have grown to welcome more than 750 Preteen, Junior High, and High School students. This time gives students the chance to step away from the noise of everyday life and encounter God through powerful worship, biblical teaching, and Christ-centered community. Hundreds have come to know Jesus for the first time at camp, and many more have taken bold steps of faith that continue to shape their lives.
However, with rising costs, families are at risk of being unable to send their students to this life-changing week. At The Grove, we are committed to ensuring that finances never prevent a student from attending camp. This is why we host Summer Camp Sponsorship Weekend each spring and why camp scholarships are included in this year’s Love Offering. Together, these efforts will make it possible for every student to experience camp. Your gift is more than financial help — it is an investment in the next generation following Jesus.
Deaf Camp
Riverside has long been home to a significant deaf community, anchored by the California School for the Deaf and the many deaf families who have settled here. Years ago, The Grove recognized the need to reach and disciple this community in their heart language, launching the Deaf Ministry that has since grown into a thriving church family with its own leadership, worship, and outreach.
This year, our Deaf Ministry is stepping forward with something new — a four-day deaf camp in partnership with the Deaf Church at Brentwood Baptist. Designed for children ages 6-14 in the Southern California deaf community, every activity, game, and worship time will be led in American Sign Language, creating a place where campers can fully connect, communicate, and belong.
Through your Love Offering, we will host this camp at The Grove and provide activities, meals, and supplies as we disciple the next generation of the deaf community.
Engage Ministry
At The Grove, we believe every follower of Jesus has a part to play in God’s global story. The Engage Ministry exists to help our people step into relationships and cross cultures in ways that open doors for the Gospel.
Through LINK groups, Bible studies, ESL classes, and simple hospitality, Engage connects our church with international students, refugees, and immigrants from around the world. These friendships often grow into meaningful discipleship relationships, showing that the Gospel can be shared not only across oceans but across living rooms, classrooms, and dinner tables.
As participants walk with others from different backgrounds, God can shape them into cross-cultural disciple makers with an eternal impact.
Path of Life
For years, The Grove has partnered with Path of Life Ministries to care for those experiencing homelessness in Riverside. Path of Life provides emergency shelter, meals, job-readiness programs, counseling, and spiritual care, walking with individuals and families toward stability and renewal.
This year, Path of Life is pursuing a new transitional housing project on 14th Street, designed after the model of The Grove Village. The multi-unit development will provide safe, stable homes for families to move into after leaving a shelter, giving them time to restore health, secure employment, and rebuild life skills on the way to permanent housing.
Your Love Offering will help finalize design plans and cover critical construction costs not met through volunteers or outside support. Together, we are multiplying the impact of The Grove Village, helping bring stability, dignity, and the hope of Christ to more families in our city.
Photo: Plans for the housing development
Local Church Support
Every year, a portion of the Love Offering is set aside to support other local churches and church plants. It’s not flashy or new — but it is one of the most important ways we can strengthen the body of Christ beyond The Grove.
Sometimes this support looks like helping a church through a challenging season. Other times it means resourcing a ministry project, contributing to facility repairs, or providing encouragement for a congregation that feels weary. Each investment helps ensure that these churches can continue to faithfully proclaim the Gospel in their communities.
This rhythm has become a hallmark of the Love Offering, standing with fellow churches so they don’t have to carry the work of ministry alone. It reflects the goodness of God — who calls His people to unity, sustains His Church everywhere, and uses us together to make His name known.
The Future of The Grove
God has been faithful to sustain The Grove for more than 100 years. What began as a small gathering in Riverside has grown into a church family that now reaches thousands each week. At every step of the way, His goodness has carried us — changing lives, building community, and sending people out to share Christ across the world.
But with growth comes responsibility. Each week, new families walk onto our campus. Children and students fill the rooms. Adults gather in groups to study the Word, pray, and grow as disciples. Parking lots overflow. Worship services reach capacity. These are wonderful problems to have, yet they also remind us that we must prepare for the future if we want to continue reaching everyone God is bringing to us.
We are prayerfully asking, Do we need more space for worship? Additional classrooms for kids and students? Expanded areas for community and discipleship? Greater parking capacity to welcome new families? These are not just logistical challenges, but opportunities to create space for more people to encounter the goodness of God.
With our building fully paid off, we now have the opportunity to look forward with fresh vision and freedom, asking how God wants us to step into the next season. That is why this year’s Love Offering includes a unique opportunity. Every dollar given above $1,000,000 will be set aside for the future of The Grove. And a generous family in our church has committed to match those gifts — doubling the impact and accelerating our ability to move forward with wisdom and faith. These funds will help us continue conversations already underway with architects and planners, ensuring that when the time comes to expand, we are ready to take bold steps forward.
This is not about buildings. It is about people. It is about preparing spaces where the Gospel can be proclaimed, disciples can be trained, and communities can be reached. It is about stewarding the opportunities God has placed in front of us, so that His goodness can be seen and experienced by generations to come.
As we look ahead, we remain anchored in our vision of Being Changed by God to Reach All People. And we step forward with confidence that the same God who has been faithful for 100 years will continue to be faithful in the years to come.
Adoption Support
Adoption is a beautiful picture of the Gospel — God choosing us, welcoming us into His family, and calling us His own. At The Grove, we want to support families who step into that same calling through adoption and foster care. Yet the journey is often filled with real obstacles: legal expenses, counseling needs, childcare, and even practical home requirements.
This year, your Love Offering will continue to provide adoption assistance in ways that make a tangible difference. In the past, this has looked like helping one family install a pool fence to meet adoption requirements, covering childcare costs for parents navigating the process, offering counseling hours, and even providing gift cards so couples can step away for much-needed date nights.
Through these efforts, we’re making it possible for families in our church to say “yes” to the children God places in their path — and for those children to experience the safety, stability, and love of a forever home.
Riverside Life Services
For decades, Riverside Life Services has been a trusted pro-life ministry in our city, offering Christ-centered care to women and families in crisis. Their mission is to preserve the lives of unborn children while helping families thrive — all in the name of Jesus, through prayer, listening, and compassionate support.
Recently, however, the ministry has faced safety concerns. With two attempted break-ins and a security system more than 15 years old, both staff and clients are vulnerable. To continue serving effectively, they need upgraded systems that will provide a safe and welcoming environment for those walking through their doors.
This year, your Love Offering will help fund new security cameras, outdoor lighting, and a panic-button entry system that allows staff to lock and monitor doors as needed. By meeting this practical need, we are protecting the ministry so that their vital Gospel work can continue unhindered for years to come.
Mission Home Upgrades
The Grove aims not only to send Global Partners to the unreached but also to care for them well — both while they serve overseas and when they return on home assignment. One of the biggest challenges they face when coming home is finding a place to stay.
For years, The Grove's Mission Home has met that need, providing Global Partners with a safe and welcoming place to rest, reconnect, and prepare for their next season of ministry. It has been a tremendous blessing, but after serving many families, it now needs important updates to remain effective.
This year, your Love Offering will help improve the Mission Home by creating a more livable space and a more inviting backyard to relax and refresh. These improvements are a practical way we continue to love, support, and care for those God has called to the nations.
The Grove Pipeline
The Grove’s Pipeline is how we discover, develop, and deploy long-term Global Partners. This nine-month training process equips individuals and families through biblical teaching, cross-cultural preparation, spiritual formation, and mentoring with seasoned leaders.
Pipeline participants engage in retreats, conferences, learning cohorts, and vision trips — all designed to help them discern their calling and prepare for fruitful ministry among the least reached. They receive coaching, support, and resources that guide them from the early stages of interest to being fully ready for long-term service.
Already, the Pipeline has equipped candidates preparing to serve in places like South Asia, Japan, and beyond. This initiative is still young, but it is already helping send faithful, equipped workers to where the need for the Gospel is greatest.
Your Love Offering makes this training possible, helping ordinary people step into God’s extraordinary mission.
Photo: This year’s 9-month group at a training intensive
New Global Partners
This year, The Grove is sending out new Global Partners to some of the world’s least-reached places. They will serve in roles like teaching, aviation, and mobilization — each one using their gifts to open doors for the Gospel and strengthen the Church. These men and women are answering God’s call to go, carrying His love where Christ is not yet known.
Global Partner Care
Global Partners give their lives to take the hope of Jesus to the nations, often serving in remote or challenging places. Yet even the most dedicated workers need encouragement, care, and connection to thrive long-term. Global Partner Care is how The Grove ensures that those we send and support are not serving alone.
This year, your Love Offering will help us strengthen that care through pastoral visits, strategic retreats, counseling, and spiritual resources. We are also expanding our team and sending Grove members to the field to provide face-to-face encouragement and prayer. These intentional touchpoints allow partners to rest, be renewed, and receive guidance for the work ahead.
For many of our partners, this care is a lifeline — a reminder that they are seen, valued, and loved. By investing in Global Partner Care, we reflect the goodness of God and help keep Gospel workers healthy, resilient, and faithful in their calling.
Photo: Visiting our Global Partners in Southeast Asia
Training Ground Expansion
Mexico
Outside Mexico City, Larry Walker serves with Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ (WEC) International at El Monte Camp. This ministry equips the Mexican church to raise up and send missionaries to the least-reached parts of the world. Every weekend, the camp is filled with churches coming for retreats, training, and discipleship — but with only one dining and meeting hall, the camp can host only one group at a time, even though cabin space could accommodate many more.
This year, your Love Offering — together with a Men’s HANDS Trek serving on site — will help construct El Maná, a second dining and meeting facility. Once completed, it will provide dining space for 250 and meeting space for 400, doubling the camp’s capacity and multiplying its ministry impact. Through this project, we can help strengthen a hub that is discipling leaders, hosting churches, and sending missionaries to places where the Gospel is scarcely known.
Medical Clinic Building
Chile
Imagine a church that not only gathers people to worship but also serves as the local community’s most trusted place for care. That is the vision of Gustavo and Karissa Guevara in Lautaro, Chile, where their growing church is preparing to open a medical clinic as part of their community center.
In Chile, waiting lists for medical attention are often months long, leaving low-income families, rural children, and the elderly without timely help. The Guevaras believe the church should stand in that gap, providing care while pointing people to Christ.
Through your Love Offering, we will help renovate an unfinished building into a fully functioning clinic, outfitting rooms for visiting doctors, dentists, and nurses. This is more than just health care — it is a living expression of God’s goodness, where physical healing and spiritual hope meet under one roof.
Church Gathering Space Improvements
Chile
In Maipú, Chile, Iglesia Cristo Invita (ICI) is a vibrant church and Christian school led by Doug Kallestad and IberoAmerican Ministries. It’s a place where families from across the city gather, many of whom are encountering Jesus for the very first time.
But right now, the church’s front patio tells a different story. Cracked and unusable, the space is both unsafe and uninviting. With your help, we plan to renovate this area into a safe and beautiful community patio — one that includes a new façade, seating areas, and room for connection. It will be a space designed for conversation, relationship, and Gospel moments.
El Recreo Children’s Center
Ecuador
In El Recreo, Ecuador, the children’s center has become a lifeline for hundreds of kids who rely on it for meals, education, and care. Last year, The Grove helped launch an expansion project so the center could serve even more families. Classrooms and a dining hall are already in use, and the impact is clear — children are thriving in a safe, Christ-centered environment.
This year, we are returning with a Men’s Trek to help put the finishing touches on the project. The team will assist with bathrooms, a kitchen, and final furnishings that will allow the center to fully serve up to 850 children and their families.
Through your Love Offering, we’re helping bring this vision to completion — ensuring the center is fully equipped to meet both the physical needs of children and the spiritual hunger of a community.
Worship Space Updates
United Kingdom
In South West London, The Grove Residency graduate Grantham Wash and his wife, Abbey, are leading Church on the Thames — formerly Hampton Wick Baptist Church — through a season of revitalization. Over the past year, the congregation has grown from 6 to over 40 weekly attendees. Families are coming, young leaders are stepping up, and the community is sensing new life. One woman recently shared, “Before, this church was dead. Now it’s alive.”
But the church’s outdated building is still a barrier. Chairs are unsafe for the elderly, worn carpet hides damaged flooring, and the roof needs repair.
This year, your Love Offering will help provide new chairs, refurbish the wooden floor, and repair the roof — creating a safe, welcoming space for worship and community.
This project reflects the goodness of God — raising up leaders, restoring churches, and renewing neighborhoods with His love.
Mobilizing Spanish Churches
Spain
Latin America and Spain are home to millions of believers, yet only a small percentage are being mobilized into missions. Jorge Adrián Gonzalez Ortiz, serving with Launch Global, is leading Coalición 21 — a new coalition with hubs in Madrid and Houston designed to mobilize the Spanish-speaking church.
The vision is to help churches in all 21 Spanish-speaking nations raise up their own workers by providing reproducible pathways for discipleship and missions training, much like The Grove’s Pipeline, our Global Partner mobilization ministry. In this early stage, the team is focused on developing Spanish-language training materials and beginning to equip pastors and lay leaders through trips, cohorts, and online tools.
This is The Grove’s first year partnering with Jorge and Launch Global. Your Love Offering will help strengthen this coalition and extend its reach to the nations.
First Church in Paskuqan
Albania
For decades, Albania was closed to the Gospel. Even today, many towns and cities remain without a single church. One of those places was Paskuqan, a community surrounded by mosques where the name of Jesus was rarely known.
But God is opening doors in Paskuqan. Through the ministry of Kurt and Stephanie P. with BalkanREACH, the Gospel has been shared and lives are beginning to change.
Now the next step is renovating a two-story building that will become the town’s first evangelical church. It will be a place for worship, discipleship, and outreach, as well as an after-school program for children offering education and hope.
Your Love Offering will help make this possible, establishing a church where there was none before and pointing an entire community to Christ.
Moyo Church Plant
Uganda
The Grove’s partnership in northern Uganda is entering its second year of a three-year plan to plant a new church in the Moyo region. Last year, through your Love Offering, land for the church was purchased — a vital first step toward creating a permanent home for worship and discipleship.
Now, under the leadership of Pastor John Ocirocan, construction is set to begin in the coming months. The building will provide space for the growing congregation to gather, for leaders to be trained, and for the Gospel to be shared in an area with limited church presence.
Your continued generosity is helping turn this vision into reality, ensuring that the people of Moyo have a place to worship, grow, and be sent out in faith.
Church Ministry Vehicle
Uganda
In northern Uganda and across South Sudan, rural pastors are serving faithfully, but many lack consistent support because of one simple barrier: transportation. Broken and muddy roads make travel unpredictable, and ordinary vehicles can’t reliably reach the villages where leaders are waiting for training and encouragement.
Pastor Martin Onen and Gulu Bible Community Church are committed to strengthening churches and equipping pastors throughout the region. This year, The Grove is partnering with several other churches to help provide them with a reliable vehicle, creating a way to carry Bibles, training materials, and people into hard-to-reach areas.
This investment is practical, but its impact is deeply spiritual. By working together, we are making it possible for more leaders to be trained, more churches to be supported, and more communities to hear the Gospel.
National Pastoral Training
Malawi
One of the greatest needs facing the Church in Africa is biblically qualified leadership. Too often, men rise to influence by charisma, declaring themselves pastors without the preparation or affirmation of the local church. This leaves many congregations without true shepherds.
Since 2018, The Grove has partnered with Kellen Hiroto and the Central African Preaching Academy (CAPA) to train pastors in Malawi. Building on that foundation, CAPA and IBF Church are launching a yearlong pastoral internship. Men from local churches will study at seminary, serve alongside elders, and receive intentional discipleship and mentorship.
Your Love Offering will go directly toward pastoral training resources — from Bible study tools and theological books to retreats and mentoring opportunities. These investments give future pastors tools they need to grow in biblical wisdom and shepherd faithfully.
Discipleship Training
Southwest Asia
In Southwest Asia, where Christian faith is often misunderstood or opposed, Elam Ministries is equipping a new generation of believers to grow, lead, and serve the church. Through tools like a discipleship app and weekly fellowship resources, Elam helps believers overcome isolation and learn how to gather, pray, and study Scripture together with confidence.
This year, your Love Offering will sponsor training for 120 believers who will be equipped to lead weekly gatherings. These resources strengthen home fellowships and nurture leaders who will multiply disciples across the region. What begins with one person often grows into an entire household or community being transformed by the Gospel.
The Grove has partnered with Elam since 2015, supporting leadership training, discipleship, and Scripture distribution. Together we share in God’s goodness to build His Church quietly, strengthen His people daily, and write new stories of hope across Southwest Asia.
Refugee Family Support
Southwest Asia
Families across Southwest Asia are being displaced by conflict and hardship, forced to leave their homes and resettle in neighboring countries. They carry with them the weight of trauma, loss, and an uncertain future. For their children, even beginning a school year can feel overwhelming without the basics like supplies, shoes, or clothing.
For more than a decade, The Grove has partnered with the “L” family in ministry across Southwest Asia as they have faithfully shared Christ in difficult places. More recently, they have stepped into the growing need of refugee care, helping displaced families find dignity, practical support, and Gospel-centered relationships. This year, your Love Offering will provide for 100 children at the start of the school year, giving each one a backpack filled with school supplies, a new pair of shoes, and two sets of clothes. These gifts are more than practical help — they are bridges to hope, relationship, and the steady goodness of God.
Youth Discipleship Camp
Southwest Asia
In Southwest Asia, the Christian population is small and often faces significant pressure and isolation. For young believers, opportunities to gather with others who share their faith are rare — yet vital for encouragement and growth.
For the past 20 years, the "A" family has faithfully hosted a youth camp, creating a space where children and young adults from Muslim culture can worship Jesus, engage in discipleship, and form lasting friendships rooted in Christ.
This year, your Love Offering will provide scholarships, transportation, meals, and lodging so that more youth can attend. At camp, they discover they are not alone and are strengthened to walk with Jesus despite the challenges they face at home. In a place where following Christ can be costly, this ministry is nurturing faith and building a resilient generation of believers.
Life Center Update
Southwest Asia
In Southwest Asia, the "C" family and their team have faithfully led the Life Center, a place where locals gather to learn English, build friendships, and experience the love of Christ in practical ways. Over time, it has become a vital hub of trust and connection in the community. The Grove has partnered with this ministry for nearly a decade, sending teams, workers, and financial support to strengthen its mission.
As years have passed, parts of the facility have begun to fall apart. This year’s Love Offering will provide needed updates: new curtains throughout the building, a new ceiling in the coffee shop, and kitchen renovations, including cupboards, counters, a sink, and a new espresso machine. These upgrades will help the Life Center continue as a warm and welcoming space where God’s goodness is shared daily.
Family Ministry Workshop
Mongolia
V.E.T. Net has long been a trusted ministry in Mongolia, using education and veterinary medicine to build relationships and introduce people to Christ. The Grove has partnered with Michael and Hillary Mincher through the years — sending Trek teams, supporting women’s retreats, hosting VBS programs, and even funding a veterinary teaching clinic. Together, we’ve seen God move in powerful ways.
But one of the greatest needs today is inside their own homes. Many V.E.T. Net staff members know the importance of discipling their families but lack the confidence and tools to do so. To meet this need, V.E.T. Net is hosting a weekend family ministry workshop, where parents, children, and extended relatives will gather to worship, study Scripture, and learn together.
Your Love Offering will help provide meals, lodging, and teaching materials, making this training possible. By equipping families first, we’re strengthening the foundation of discipleship in Mongolia for generations to come.
Helping Global Partner Kids Thrive
For many Global Partner families serving across Asia, resources that are common in the U.S. — like specialized testing for children with learning difficulties — are completely out of reach. Without this kind of support, parents are often left with few options and may even be forced to leave the field.
That’s why Brad and Joyce Trottman, through Ministry Essentials International, provide psychoeducational assessments that help families better understand their child’s needs and make a plan forward. These assessments can be the difference between a family returning or remaining in their calling long-term.
Your Love Offering will help fund the tools, travel, and resources needed to continue this vital work, keeping Global Partners healthy, effective, and flourishing where God has called them.
Equipping Church Planters
South Asia
In South Asia, where the largest number of unreached people groups exist, John Samuel and his team at Training in Entrepreneurship, Needs, and Technology (TENT) have been training church workers for 40 years. They equip men and women to share the Gospel, disciple others, and sustain ministry through bi-vocational skills. Many of these workers serve in places that are spiritually resistant and economically fragile, where faithfulness requires both courage and creativity.
This year, your Love Offering will help train 20 new workers. They will study missions, preaching, community development, and entrepreneurship — and also learn vocational skills that allow them to support themselves while serving their communities.
The Grove has partnered with TENT since 1997, and together we have witnessed God raise up workers for the harvest. This project reflects His goodness — equipping those who will carry the Gospel to the unreached in South Asia.
Church Planting Catalyst
South Asia
In South Asia, there remain entire communities with no access to the Gospel. Without trained leaders and intentional outreach, these people groups continue to be unreached. Longtime Grove partners, the "C" family, are stepping into this gap with a 12-month initiative designed to mobilize church planting in some of the hardest-to-reach areas.
This project will fund travel for the team as they engage six unengaged, unreached people groups across eight districts. It will also support six large training gatherings where national leaders come together for mentorship, accountability, and coaching to strengthen their ministry.
Your Love Offering will invest in this work, equipping faithful men and women who are planting new churches. In a region with immense challenges, the goodness of God is being displayed as His Word reaches new places and new hearts.
Strengthening Church Leaders
South Asia
For years, The Grove has partnered with Phurpu, who has faithfully discipled believers in some of the hardest-to-reach places of South Asia. In these regions, Christians long to grow but lack the resources and training to deepen their faith and lead others. Without help, many leaders struggle to shepherd their churches with confidence.
This year, your Love Offering will fund three discipleship training programs, equipping believers through several days of teaching, workshops, and encouragement. In addition, a special Christmas outreach will share the hope of Christ with people who have never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel.
Together, these efforts are multiplying leaders, strengthening churches, and planting seeds of faith that will grow for generations.
Agricultural Outreach Project
South Asia
In South Asia, our partners have spent more than a decade building relationships through their food and agriculture business. In a region where trust takes years to form, it is not uncommon for Gospel conversations to emerge only after a decade of presence, consistency, and care. Yet these conversations are happening — and doors for discipleship are beginning to open.
Their enterprise blends business and mission, producing high-quality food products while creating meaningful jobs for local workers. Each day, employees work side by side with the Willers, experiencing integrity, prayer, and Christ-centered love in action. Over time, those everyday interactions have become the soil where seeds of faith are planted.
The next phase requires significant investment: stone-ground flour milling equipment, facility renovations, and laboratory testing tools. Your Love Offering will help make these improvements possible, increasing both capacity and impact — and sustaining a witness that God is already using to bring lasting fruit.
Remember Nhu
Thailand
Since 2015, The Grove has partnered with Remember Nhu in their mission to end child sex trafficking through prevention. In Thailand, this ministry operates safe homes that provide daily care, education, and the hope of Jesus for children most at risk of exploitation.
Today, more than 110 students across nine homes need transportation to school, church, and medical visits. Staff currently rely on a few aging vehicles, making multiple trips every day and stretching limited resources. An additional new truck will relieve this burden, ensuring safe and reliable transportation while freeing staff to focus on care and discipleship.
Your Love Offering will make this possible. Together, we will continue a partnership a decade strong, helping protect vulnerable children while opening doors for them to grow in security, education, and Gospel hope.
Community Ministry Hub
Southeast Asia
For years, The Grove has partnered with the “T” family and their team as they live and minister in a part of Southeast Asia where the Gospel is scarcely known. In a province marked by broken families and dominated by mosques on every corner, their presence is a living witness that Jesus is the true source of life and hope.
The next step forward is the purchase of land for the construction of a ministry space — land that has already been identified, right next to an existing hub of ministry activity that is serving the community. As soon as the property is secured, construction will begin. The new facility will host English classes, village leader meetings, and discipleship gatherings. It will also provide space for Grove trek teams who visit to serve alongside the ministry. Most importantly, it will be a place for prayer, encouragement, and worship — a home base where a new church can eventually take root.
Your Love Offering will help make this possible, planting a lasting Gospel presence where none has existed before.
English Center Café
Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, many university students and young professionals struggle to experience deep friendship and the hope of the Gospel. Our partner, Mikayla M., has spent the last year creating opportunities through English Clubs — but without a consistent space, relationships are limited to weekly gatherings.
Your Love Offering will help update their English Center to include a café, complete with seating, AC, and coffee equipment. This café will provide a safe, consistent space for students to gather throughout the week and naturally enter conversations about faith.
One student, Princess, comes from a difficult home life and admits nothing in her religion or routines can fill the emptiness she feels. Through English Club, she has experienced unconditional love and heard the Gospel for the first time. This café will allow more like her to find true hope.
Responding to God’s Voice
God has laid before us some amazing opportunities. These initiatives will only be accomplished as we learn to trust fully in His goodness. Now it is up to you. How will you respond?
Love Offering Goal = $1,000,000
On the weekend of November 15 and 16, 2025, we will receive the 2026 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 goodness 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 25 until December 31, 2025.
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 25 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 goodness to provide when you give rather than just your own ability. Experiencing His power 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 what you can give comfortably and commit to a future amount God places on your heart. A Faith Pledge depends on God to provide for you, enabling you to fulfill the pledge. You can click here to make a pledge online, or pledge cards will be available at the Welcome Counters.
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In 2025, we were able to fulfill every opportunity because of your faithful and generous giving. We believe that in 2026 God will help us do that again. If we do fall short, the 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.
Witness His Power
Praise God for the 39 ways He was faithful through our 2025 Love Offering!
In Acts 1:8, Jesus promises, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” This call to witness His power extends far beyond the Love Offering. It is a daily call for each of us to be living testimonies of His power, love, and redemption.
As we look ahead, let us press forward, knowing our efforts are not in vain. We have seen His power over the last 100 years, and with the Holy Spirit guiding us, we will continue to witness His power in this next year in even greater ways. May we carry the Gospel forward and always remain a church Being Changed by God to Reach All People.
Love Offering Impact Through the Years
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