Legacy Church Annual Report

+21-22 Budget Approval & Elder Ratification
You can also vote in-person on 3/21 @Legacy Canton after the 10am  Dual-Campus Worship

Annual Report, including proposed 21-22 Budget is included below, and a State of the Church addresses from Pastor Nate & Pastor Brent will be posted here after the 3/21 meeting

A LOOK BACK

Even with the necessary shift in ministry this past year, Legacy provided unique ministry experiences, developed new discipleship opportunities, and saw our reach expand across the globe!

20-21  HIGHLIGHTS

  • Overnight shifted from not even recording our worship to fully digital worship. Eventually able to provide in-person and online worship experiences now reaching around the globe.
  • Increased our social media presence, and doubled our Facebook page likes.
  • Established 2 Legacy Zoom rooms for virtual options for small groups, meetings, planning teams, youth, Bible Studies, etc.
  • Hired a Worship Leader in Canton, and a Worship Leader to join the worship Coordinator in Marietta.
  • Expanded worship tech volunteers at both locations.
  • Moved much of our church communications, including voting on the 20-21 budget and elder board to digital.
  • ​Canton campus continued, and even increased, donations to the Never Alone foodbank in Woodstock
  • Lend-a-Hand ministries have continued to serve the Canton & Marietta communities.
  • Spanish continuing to broadcast their worship around the globe and offering multiple discipleship and fellowship opportunities
  • Offered Drive-Thru communion events, and a virtual Ash Wednesday Experience
  • Hosted two outdoor hymn-a-long's event to provide socially-distant worship gatherings
  • Completed an important and successful 24-hour prayer vigil to pray for our country and our congregations.
  • Began, much needed, deferred maintenance at the Marietta Campus

20-21 ONLINE PRESENCE

20-21 ADULTS

  • Marriage Builder 1-Day Conference (pre-pandemic)
  • Ladies "God Listens" & "God Heals" events, In-person & live-streamed
  • Multiple Small Groups and Bible Studies began to meet via zoom

20-21 YOUTH

  • Zoom hang-outs established during early stages of pandemic
  • Eventually weekly Small Group gatherings began in-person & virtually
  • Monthly Sunday Night worship events, in-person & virtually
  • 46 attended multi-day summer "camp", in-person & live-streamed
  • 31 attended weekend fall "retreat", in-person & live-streamed
  • Girls "See Yourself The Way God Sees You" event, in-person & live-streamed
  • Hiking day-trips for the guys

20-21 KIDS

  • Holy Week 2020 @home via Flip Grid - using for 2021 Holy Week paid promos
  • 50 kids, 25 youth, & 14 Adults participated in Praise Rocks in a Box
  • 23 families participated in Camp S'Mores @home
  • 16 families participate in AWANA zoom gatherings
  • Monthly discipleship resources provided to each Legacy family
  • Sunday morning in person worship Busy Bags provided for famlies

20-21 FINANCIAL

  • On track to meet our pre-pandemic budgeted giving target - THANK YOU!
  • During quarantine, we received the Federal PPP-Loan which, along with your faithful giving, allowed us to continue monthly support to all 10+ missionaries, and have no lapse in pay for our staff.
  • Reduced spending allowed us to retain some reserve funds for maintenance issues in Marietta, and begin to move forward with a building campaign for a permanent location for Canton.
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A LOOK AHEAD

Even during a pandemic, Legacy is thriving! In-person gatherings are growing, we have seen new families in Canton, Marietta, and in the Hispanic congregations, and we are seeing regular returning online watchers from across the globe.

21-22 HIGHLIGHTS

  • Continue to offer quality worship, discipleship, and fellowship opportunities both live and online for Spanish, Canton, & Marietta, including a return to live-streaming.
  • Added a budget line item to purposefully launch a building campaign for the Canton Campus to secure a 24/7 location.
  • Exploring launching a Spanish congregation in Canton.
  • 2021 Mission trip to SD reservation is planned.
  • Missions team exploring additional ministries to partner with and to increase our financial support to help expand God's kingdom locally and around the globe.
  • Help launch a new virtual Teach-One-to-Lead-One Mentoring Program to serve students learning online.
  • Concentrate on deferred maintenance projects, and property and equipment upgrades at the Marietta campus.
  • Increase in-person ministry offerings, while also expanding our digital presence.
  • Expand our volunteers - especially in the technical, welcome, and children's areas so we can continue to move forward in these ministries.

21-22 ADULTS

  • 9+ small groups and Bible studies continue to meet in-person and/or via zoom
  • Plans to expand our small group offerings
  • Offering Good Friday in-person gatherings in Holly Springs & Marietta

21-22​ YOUTH

  • Summer camp with both overnight and daycamp options scheduled for June 27-30 in Woodstock
  • Developing new Youth Worship team members
  • Monthly worship experiences will continue
  • Wednesday weekly discipleship small groups will resume either late spring or in the fall
  • Offsite fall retreat is in the planning stages

21-22 KIDS

  • Resume Sunday morning Children's church (when appropriate and we have enough volunteers) during in person worship. Continue to provide Busy Bags until this time.
  • A modified (yet totally fun!) Praise Rocks Camp is planned for June 14-18
  • Provide AWANA zoom and return to in-person AWANA when able

21-22 FINANCIALS

  • Reallocated some expenses to other budget categories and added new line items to the 21-22 budget.
  • Increased the budget target just slightly above the prior fiscal budget to include an allocation for the Canton Building Campaign Fund.
  • Asking each family to commit to giving just $1.00 more each week than they are currently giving to help cover this slight increase in our budgeted target.​
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The elders, staff, and finance team are humbled at your commitment to generously supporting Legacy Church throughout all the uncertainty of this past year.

We are excited for things to come and believe that with your continuing faithful financial support God will continue to bless our ministries. Part of this excitement is adding new budget line items for technical & communications ministry and to establish a Legacy Canton Building Campaign fund! We have already received some designated giving towards this effort and we believe the time has come to purposefully take steps forward towards this goal.

As we emerge from the Pandemic, and as always, we strive to provide ministry opportunities with good stewardship always in mind and will continuously monitor our spending to keep expenses in line with income.
Questions can be submitted thru 3/18.
​FYE20-21 Budget Target: $764k    compared to    FYE21-22 Budget Target: $772k
Many regular expenses were reallocated to other areas for reporting/tracking purposes
Some categories were reduced due to different ministry needs in 2021-2022

21-22 ELDERS

Board of Elders with terms beginning April 1, 2021
​Attends: C=Canton, M=Marietta, H=Hispanic
New Elders (2-year terms):
Krista Bleisath (c)
Jeannette Chenoweth (m)
Troy Cossel (c)
Tami McIntire (m)
Returning incumbent elders (1-year terms):
Warren Davenport
Tim Early
Carrol Martin
Billy Suddeth
Pat Wright
​Derek Ziegler
Completing the 2nd year of their initial 2-year term: Jorge Aceituno, Greg Allen, John Grimes, Ed Polley
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Term Completed:
Dan McClure