Dear Church,
My heart is so excited as I look forward to this coming Sunday and our annual Kingdom Builders offering. God has been so good to us this year. We have so much to be thankful for, and I cannot wait to give in response to His goodness.
This weekend, I’ll be speaking from 1 Chronicles 29. In this passage, King David, who is now in his later years, reflects back on his life. From the moment he took the kingdom in his early thirties, David held a deep love and value for the house of God. He built a tent right outside his own home to house the Ark of the Covenant, and he established a rhythm of worship around the presence of God.
He treasured God’s presence and God’s house. Although he would not personally see a majestic temple built, he spent years storing up a personal fortune (over seven billion dollars in modern-day value) and then gave all of it toward building a house for God. He invested so that his children, grandchildren, and generations he would never meet could worship God in a beautiful place.
David’s generosity stirred the entire nation. Scripture says the people gave freely and wholeheartedly—inspired from within, not pressured from without.
This year, through our Kingdom Builders offering, we will accomplish two things: We will build the mission, funding our foreign and local outreach. And we will build the church, advancing construction projects across our campuses.
As we prepare for this weekend, I’m asking you to take time to pray and ask the Lord what He would have you contribute.
Join me this Sunday as, together, we build the kingdom through our generosity. I love each of you and look forward to worshiping God with you.
Your Pastor,
Jonathan Stockstill
Our collective effort to reach people locally and globally through outreach, missions, compassion, and church planting.
Our long term commitment to build spaces that form believers, strengthen families, raise leaders, & anchor Bethany for generations.
Reaching our communities and the world with the hope of Jesus
Build the Mission brings together all local and global outreach efforts of Bethany Church. Through the Bethany Mentorship Program, our Missions Base in Puerto Rico, and outreach initiatives around the world, we are meeting needs, preaching the Gospel, and transforming lives in real and measurable ways.
Our Local Outreach Expression
The Bethany Mentorship Program is restoring hope and reshaping the future of students and families across East Baton Rouge Parish. Through daily encouragement, meals, tutoring, life skills training, and consistent mentorship, we are seeing students rise above limitations and step confidently into their God given potential.
This year, God has opened unprecedented doors.
More than 50 percent of every high school graduate who has participated in the Mentorship Program is now enrolled in a post secondary education or training program. This is a major breakthrough and is central to our mission of breaking cycles of poverty in our communities.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School System has now entered a formal agreement that allows the Bethany Mentorship Program to operate in every school in the parish. This gives us citywide access to underserved students and an incredible opportunity to expand our reach and impact.
More than 300 students have made a decision to follow Jesus, and many are now connected to Baker BYA and Bold ministries where they are being discipled and growing in faith.
A Global Launchpad of Hope
Over the past three years, Bethany has planted deep roots in San Juan, establishing a fully functioning Bethany Church campus and building a dedicated Missions Base. This base is quickly becoming a trusted hub for outreach, disaster relief, and ministry training across the island.
Teams from Bethany and from churches across the United States will be able to stay, cook, serve, and minister from this central base year round. In 2025, Bethany alone is sending seven missions trips.
Reaching the nations with the Gospel
Bethany has always been a missions church. From our very first offering to today, we have remained committed to sending the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Through Kingdom Builders, we partner with ministries across the world that are rescuing children, providing clean drinking water, planting churches, and responding to disaster and crisis with the love of Jesus.
Creating spaces that shape the next generation and strengthen the future of Bethany Church
For more than twenty years, church planting and expansion have been part of the heartbeat of Bethany. From one campus in Baker, the Lord has expanded our reach to Baton Rouge, Livingston Parish, New Orleans, Houma, and Puerto Rico. Now, it is time to invest deeply in the foundational campuses that have carried this vision forward.
Through Build Your Church, we are creating sanctuaries where the Gospel can be preached boldly, environments where children and families can grow in Christ, and spaces where future leaders can be trained for ministry.
And now, God has opened even more opportunities for expansion.
A new campus at the crosses and a new home for Bethany Christian School
Our original plan was to renovate the current South Baton Rouge facilities, but as we evaluated the scope of work, the Lord led us into a better future.
The current South Baton Rouge campus will become the full home of Bethany Christian School, providing the space needed for new grades, expanded programs, and a growing student body that is being formed in a Christ centered environment.
A brand new South Baton Rouge Campus will be constructed in front of the crosses, creating state of the art spaces for worship, ministry, children, youth, and families. This entire project remains within the original budget, while dramatically increasing long term impact.
Through Build the Mission and Build Your Church, every dollar given becomes a seed of transformation. We are feeding the hungry, mentoring students, sending missionaries, planting churches, training leaders, building sanctuaries, and laying foundations for decades of ministry.
This is how we reach people.
This is how we expand the Kingdom.
This is how we build the future God has called us to create.
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Bethany Church
Attn: Accounting Department
10877 Reiger Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
