2010-2020
@ EVERGREEN CHURCH
Welcome to 2020, your best decade yet!
PROMISE
January 2010, the future for Evergreen Church felt as bleak as the gloomy news from The Great Recession. A Bible promise brought hope.
“Like the crocus it will burst into bloom”
Isaiah 35:2-3
290
2009 Weekly attendees
1,673
2019 Weekly attendees in person and online
5X more influence in 10 years
HOW?
1040
Sermons
3,652
Daily Bible Readings
115
Men’s Prayer Meetings
700
at Flourish Bible studies
Healthy things grow.
HEALTH
In 2011 we studied God’s plan in the Bible for his church
We became an elder-governed, pastor-led, volunteer-driven church.
Evergreen’s SOURCE magazine casts the vision of
Jesus changing lives through you.
We see Evergreen as a SOURCE church to
EVANGELIZE the nations,
REVITALIZE the church, and to
TRANSFORM society.
Pastors and partners inspire us.
Brady Boyd
New Life Church, Colorado Springs, CO
Oversight Pastor
Phillip Mutzelburg
Acts 2 Association Churches, Australia
Oversight Pastor
Aaron Crider
Gateway Church, Southlake, TX
Oversight Pastor
PLUS partners like
Alpha Worldwide
Jossy Cacko
Empart, India
Israel Pochtar
Voice of Israel, Ashdod, Israel
THE 96 PERCENT
We learned just 4 percent of our neighbors attend a church
We made the 96% who don’t our first focus
110,000
live around Evergreen
105,600
don’t go to church
The Alpha Course became our center.
Alpha is dinner, a movie, and table talk about the questions of life and Jesus.
634
attended Alpha in 2019
2,063
attended Alpha since 2016
That’s 2% of our region at Alpha at Evergreen.
391
have been baptized this decade
2
New Alphas launched in 2019:
Alexa Cafe, Main Street Bothell
Saint Pius X Catholic Church, Mountlake Terrace
WE LOVE PEOPLE
Jesus noticed people.
We make decisions inside the church for the benefit of people not yet inside the church.
3,895
follow Evergreen on Social Media
5,372
Downloads of the Evergreen App
109,378
App launches since 2015
60,000
At Christmas Lights in 2019
290,000
At Christmas Lights from 2012 until now.
328
Volunteers served at Christmas Lights
58,000
Gourmet chocolate chip cookies were baked hot and given away free
7,560
Came indoors for one of 7 Christmas Eve Services
700
Said “Yes” to Christ on Christmas Eve
GENEROSITY
In August 2016 a word from the Lord stirred us to create engaging spaces.
“I will beautify my beautiful house.”
Isaiah 60:7
People gave to the Beautify Offering.
$146,948.45
Beautify Offering 2019
$689,568.46
Beautify Offering 2016-2020
That made possible:
Illuminated Signs
Fresh paint
Kids Playground
Parking Lot Lights
Polished Floors
Cultures Coffee House
Welcome Fireplace
Hickory Cafe Tables
Hallway Decor
Doubled Auditorium Size
Auditorium Carpet
Larger Platform
Production Booth
Online Room
Print Room
Moving Lights
HD Cameras
Church Laundry
Second Floor Rooms for Kids
The Foundry prayer room
The Hub work space
Storefront doors
The Pavilion
River Rock Fireplace
Pavillion Patio
Wide sidewalks
Church House Restoration
Our neighbors came indoors
5,162
Hosted at Cultures in 2019
950
Indians danced at Desi Lights Party
1,006
Community leaders used our campus free of charge,
Bothell City, Northshore Schools, Northshore Schools Foundation, and Bothell/Kenmore Chamber of Commerce
Beautify was just the beginning.
$29,944
Bothell Fire and Police Chaplain
$30,000
Dream Center in South Asia to plant 20 churches where no Christians live
$20,000
FIRST Christian church in Ashkelon, Israel
$24,849
Christmas Lights that brought 60,000 people
$74,262
HD cameras to serve
5,752
Live online viewers 2019
29,212
Media views in 2019
2
online viewers walked into Evergreen to be baptized.
FAITH
Week by week, Evergreen people trust God by giving to the house.
$1,500,800
2019 TITHES
+
$425,840
2019 OFFERINGS
=
$1,926,640
2019 TOTAL GIVEN
-
$1,798,433
2019 EXPENSES
=
$130,817
2019 SURPLUS
For every $100 given, Evergreen invests
$49 on Staff
$10 on Outreach
$10 on Ministry
$11 on Building
$9 on Improvements
$7 on Surplus
$4 on Administration
We believe God will help us be debt free so we can do more good
$2,915,449
Mortgage in 2010
$1,820,093.52
Mortgage in 2020
$ 1,095,356
Debt paid off
$ 1,320,923
Kids Wing built in 2016 Debt Free
$689,568
Beautify Improvements from 2016-2019
$ 3,105,847
Total in buildings built & debt paid in 10 years.
WE BELIEVE Evergreen Church will soon own debt free this 7.5 acre campus & 34,000 square feet of buildings to do more good than ever before.
Why not next year?
GROWTH
It’s about people.
Room for one more is a kindness to our neighbors.
524
Monthly attendees 2010
2,500
Monthly attendees 2019
Attendees multiplied 5 times in 10 years.
749
Weekly attendees 2019
BUT WAIT
Add it up…
749
Sunday attendees
+
211
weekly at Alpha
+
111
watching live online
+
562
watching later online
=
1633
Total lives influenced weekly at Evergreen
290 in 2009 and 1633 in 2019. That’s 5.6X more influence in one decade.
BUT HOLD A SEC…
Two stats make us STOP AND THINK
$36
Evergreen people gave on average per person per week Back in The Great Recession of 2010
Today…
$15
giving average per person per week 2019
That’s 1/2 giving strength.
An Evergreen person came to church
29
Sundays a year in 2010
Today…
15
Sundays a year in 2019
That’s 1/2 the personal presence.
What if Jesus were half committed to your salvation?
SCRATCH THAT THOUGHT
START OVER
What if you picked up Evergreen Church like Jesus carried his cross?
UNSTOPPABLE
PRAYER
Let’s launch 30 PRAYER HUDDLES, praying one hour per day of every month in The Foundry prayer room. Our prayer is for HEAVEN to come down to Bothell and for Evergreen people to CHANGE millions of lives for Jesus.
UNSTOPPABLE
WORSHIP
Let’s become a platform of WORSHIP AWAKENING to JESUS in the Pacific Northwest. Let’s raise up so many musicians, singers, and songs that we can send them out to more Evergreen locations and to other churches.
UNSTOPPABLE
COMPASSION
Let’s send Evergreen people to the VULNERABLE in Bothell by lifting up CityLift, our nonprofit for doing good. CityLift will be the focus of our Christmas giving to love Bothell. (CityLift started to serve first responders in Bothell and will expand to touch more needs in our city.)
UNSTOPPABLE
ALPHA
Let’s make the eastside ALPHA AWARE with magnetic Alpha parties, a third Alpha location, plus Alpha at the Monroe Prison.
UNSTOPPABLE
FAMILIES
Question: How many weeks do our parents have left to influence their kids? Let’s answer that question by equipping Evergreen dads and moms to raise KIDS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE for generations. This year we will launch college-accredited training for kids workers, plus we will roll out Alpha Marriage, Pre-marriage, and Dating courses.
UNSTOPPABLE
LOCATIONS
Let’s launch a third service on MAIN STREET, with the Evergreen recipe: pairs of leaders, prayer meetings, pre-evangelism, food, Alpha, worship, video, equipping leaders, and building teams to pastor the city.
UNSTOPPABLE
ACCESS
Let Evergreen create VIDEO APPEAL to people who would never think of walking into a church building. We want busy people to experience the same Evergreen community on campus and online. We will produce our first translated talks in languages like Hebrew, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Arabic, and Persian.
UNSTOPPABLE
HUDDLES
Let’s amass a SQUADRON OF HUDDLES all year long to serve our city at Christmas Lights. (Huddles are friends who journal together, help together at outreach events all year long. In December, they assemble as a volunteer army for Christmas outreach.)
UNSTOPPABLE
FREEDOM
Let’s OWN OUR CHURCH, land, and buildings, free and clear, so we can see ahead into how God will have us build and help people next. This will happen as we get a vision of our generous God the honor to be included in giving.
UNSTOPPABLE
HEROMAKERS
May God fulfill the vision of our house through HEROMAKERS, we will raise up just like Jesus modeled and commanded. Great leaders are busy, so we will make on-demand video and tech-friendly meeting spaces to inspire them. We will launch “The Dream Course” and the PeopleMagnet.School.