A New Chapter at OMPC
2024 was the launch of a new era at OMPC. Celebrate with us the way God has used OMPC to impact our neighbors over the fence, over the mountain and overseas!
We kicked off 2024 with the handing of the baton from Founding Pastor, Bob Flayhart, to new OMPC Lead Pastor, Caleb Click. By God’s grace and in His kindness, we’ve seen a fruitful year of ministry, growth, impact and generosity at OMPC. Take a moment to read through this year’s Year in Review to catch just a glimpse of God’s work in and through OMPC this year!
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Engaging every neighbor with the surprising power of grace.
Over the Pew | Over the Fence | Over the Mountain | Overseas
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We will accomplish our mission by:
Developing People
Cultivating Relationships
Pursuing Impact
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GRACE DRIVEN
We emphasize Grace as the good news of God’s unconditional love and transforming power, and the primary message of the church for all people.
RELATIONALLY AUTHENTIC
We strive to be a place of strength and restoration: a community where we can be honest about our brokenness as we call one another to the hope that is promised in Christ.
KINGDOM ORIENTED
We believe that God’s purpose is the gathering of his people from every nation and the renewal of all things through sharing the Gospel and expressing Christ’s lordship in every area of life.
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The following are desired Measures of our growth individually and corporately as we seek to fulfill our Mission in Christ:
Surprising Grace:An ever-deepening personal experience of God’s unconditional love and transforming power that leads to supernatural growth and service.
Surprising Worship:Embracing the truths of the Gospel through music, prayer, teaching and sacraments that lead to an engaging and intimate encounter with the living God.
Surprising Community:Courageous, biblically-based relationships, empowered by grace, that lead to transformational intimacy.
Surprising Growth: Christ-centered teaching, fellowship and discipleship that leads to loving the Lord with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength.
Surprising Generosity:Joyfully choosing to live with less (in our Time, Talents and Treasures) so that others might live with more in Christ.
Surprising Impact: Making a Spirit-filled difference through a grateful lifestyle of generosity, mercy and reconciliation that continues to abound Over the Fence, Over the Mountain and Overseas.
Grace Driven
Engaging every neighbor with the surprising power of grace: Grace Driven.
Throughout 2024, we saw OMPC grow in grace through worship, the teaching and preaching of God’s Word, personal time in our church-wide devotional, and concluding the Fall with an emphasis on prayer. Take a moment to engage with the media below to be reminded of how God’s grace has continued to abound in and through all we do here at OMPC.
2024 Sermon Series
Worship Ministry at OMPC
This year’s worship ministry presented Holy Forever during the Easter Season and Manger Throne during the Christmas Season. The Kids Choir presented Not Just With Our Words, a Kids Musical about the Good Samaritan in February, and our 21st Annual Bullfrog Choir was held July 28 with a stage full of men, fathers and sons leading the congregation in worship!
2024 Church-wide Bible Reading Plan
Our 2024 Bible Reading Plan was provided in connection with a new resource, the Seeing Jesus Together Journal. OMPC hosted a church-wide discipleship hour to inform and train the congregation on how to use the journal. The session is linked below. Click here for the 2024 New Testament Reading Plan.
OMPC launched our second podcast as a resource to encourage our congregation in their reading and engaging with the Seeing Jesus Together Journal and 2024 Bible Reading Plan. Click the image above to access the podcast recordings!
“I have appreciated the way the Journal guides and directs me with each of the areas. I find I am spending more time in the Word as I listen for the Spirit’s prompting as to where He would have me focus in the daily selection.”
2024-25 Emphasis: Growing as a Praying Church
In September, OMPC hosted A Praying Life Seminar. Over 225 people attended the Friday evening/Saturday morning seminar to walk through Paul Miller’s A Praying Life practical sessions to grow as a people of prayer.
OMPC Staff Prays Weekly on Thursdays
Elders & Women Shepherds Offering Prayer Following Services
Relationally Authentic
Being relationally authentic with others is a core value here at OMPC.
One of our values at OMPC is relational authenticity. As we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, a nature overflow is growing in depth of authentic relationships with those around us. From children to youth to adults of all ages, OMPC offered opportunities and events for members, visitors and our community “over the fence” to engage in the life of our church!
Eggstravaganza // Fall Festival
Due to rain and wet field conditions, the Oak Kids Eggstravaganza was moved to an indoor egg hunt followed by an outdoor festival! We had over 500 people attend this community-wide event!
This year’s Fall Festival was in connection with Part 2 of our US Ministries Weekends. In addition to fun rides, games and food trucks, our ministry partners were present to share about their ministries and connect with the congregation and community.
OMPC Adult Ministries Engaging in Authentic Community
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Highlights:
Club Tuesday (Ultimate & Pickleball)
Men’s Scripture & Fellowship met weekly on Thursdays
Men’s Fish Fry
Men’s Wild Game Night
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Highlights:
3rd Annual Strength in Weakness
75 Women went on the Women’s Beach Retreat
Growing in Grace Vision Casting Event
Prodigal Pottery Christmas Event
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Highlights:
The Table With Caleb Click drew a large YoPro crowd
Weekly Coffee Connection (bible studies) for Men & Women
Engaged with PCA Young Adults through Trivia Night and Worship Night
Established a College Ministry presence at OMPC
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Highlights:
Monthly socials & service opportunities
New purpose statement determined this year: Growing in Community and Service
Women’s Beach Retreat
The theme of this year’s Women’s Beach Retreat was Zephaniah 3:17. The desire for the Beach Retreat Team was for each woman to hear they are loved by the Lord and that He rejoices over them with loud singing!
“The Lord your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Oak Kids Summer
Oak Kids Summer Stats 2024
VBS: Over 430 children attended, Over 275 Adult & Youth Serve Team Members
Crazy Days: Over 365 Children
Bloom: Over 170 girls; 25 Adult Serve Team Members
Pine Cove City at OMPC: 179 campers; 50% OMPC Members or Visitors; 6 Children came to Christ at camp
Clubhouse Summer: Nearly 100 children served
Mustard Seeds Music Mondays: 12 children and young adults with special needs
Our 2024 VBS missions project goal was to raise $10,000 to purchase sporting equipment for Sacred Road Kids Club, engaging boys and girls on White Swan and Warm Springs Native American reservations in the Pacific Northwest with the love and grace of the gospel. Our kids went above and beyond in their creativity to raise money, and we raised $14,607.99 for Sacred Road Ministries!
Angie Hoffman, OMPC’s former Elementary Discipleship Coordinator, retired after serving over 20 years in Children’s Ministry at OMPC.
New Preschool Sunday Coordinator: Kathryn Cline
Lauren Edmondson changed roles from Preschool Sunday Coordinator to full-time Elementary Coordinator.
“[My son] & I are closer relationally after the father/son weekend than before. I believe [my son] learned about true fellowship and the importance in having others encourage and walk with him and not go it alone.”
Mark Long continued with his ParentU Podcast, launching Season 3 in Fall 2024. Click the image above to access the ParentU Podcast episodes.
New Adult Ministries Staff: Kala Waldron, Engagement Coordinator
@ the Youth House in 2024
2024 was a year full of FUN in the Youth House! From Sunday YDC to Sunday evening worship, weekly D-groups and JrHi Bible Study, events, and retreats, the Youth House kept OMPC Youth active and engaged all year long!
YOUTH HOUSE STATS
71 SrHi Students went on the SrHi Beach Retreat
60 JrHi Students went to The Edge in June
26 Students went on the Summer Missions Trip to Warm Springs, OR
65 JrHi Students went on The Getaway Retreat in November
78 SrHi Students are signed up for Winter Advance (Dec 2024-Jan 2025)
Youth House Staff Update: Cole Eddins, JrHi Guys Coordinator
““I think what was so sweet about [the SrHi Beach Retreat] is that as I look back, I would describe the trip as a direct answer to the prayer requests that the church prayed for. I don’t know that I’ve ever experienced as stark of a contrast from worship night one to worship night three. Our students encountered Jesus and it was so evident. The lines between grades and school were blurred in the most unlikely of places. Our seniors took on the mantle of leadership and led with enthusiasm and passion. It really was an incredible answer to prayer.””
Highlights:
Westminster has its highest enrollment with 615 students.
Westminster celebrated our 25th anniversary in September. Governor Ivey sent a video congratulating Westminster.
Mrs. Keeler is celebrating her 20th year at Westminster.
Westminster broke ground on The Community Life Center which will provide additional classroom space, a dedicated fine arts space, a gymnasium, a lighted track and soccer field, and a space for students and the Westminster community to gather.
Kingdom Oriented
It all begins with an idea.
Take a moment to celebrate with us the ways God worked through OMPC to engage our neighbors over the fence, over the mountain and overseas. A couple highlights of 2024:
Opened the Harvest House as temporary housing to serve refugees, in partnership with local ministry Inspiritus, until they are able to find a more permanent place to live. Housed two families: a family of four from Honduras and a multi-unit Rohingyan family who came from a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Sent 48 OMPC members on short-term trips around the world.
Celebrated the way God is flourishing His Kingdom work through holistic church planting movements, specifically through our Global Ministry Partners.
Gave away over $300K toward our Global Ministry Partners at the end of the year out of a surplus of Faith Promise funds!
Gave over $185K in Mercy Funds toward OMPC Members and our surrounding community
Global Missions Conference: February 25 - March 3, 2024 | US Ministries Weekends: October 13 & 20
““This phrase [Hallowed be thy name] also has a missions thrust ... we’re asking that God’s name would be hallowed. The reason that we send, the reason that we support, the reason that we go to the nations is that the nations are not yet hallowing the name of our God. And so we pray that all those who do not yet know the name of our God would come to know Him as Father and would hallow His name.””
Click the image above to watch Lloyd Kim’s sermon from this year’s Global Missions Conference.
Click the image above to watch Russ Whitfield’s sermon from this year’s US Ministries Sunday P1.
WHAT IS FAITH PROMISE?
The Faith Promise/Global Missions Fund fiscal year runs from March 2024-February 2025. The number above reflects Faith Promise giving through November 2024.
Add image below of Faith Promise Fund Tracker through November 2024
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
