Global Impact
Impacting our community and the world with the message of Christ and His love
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COMING UP
” Therefore go and make disciples of all nations….”
(Matthew 28:19)
Academy Christian believes in supporting ministries that demonstrate this effort, financially by designating 15% of our general budget for missions’ support, as well as providing volunteers and needed items to the ministries we support.
Locally Supported Ministries
Beautiful Redemption
Since 2016, Beautiful Redemption has connected faith communities, child welfare agencies and individuals to help tens of thousands of at-risk children. They aim to create unity among the local church while working to serve kids in crisis.
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Care Portal
CarePortal is an online platform that brings the needs of hurting children and families inour community to your attention. Caseworkeers uncover the needs. CarePortal makes local churches aware, giving them a real-time opportunity to respond.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support. ACC members and attendees can join the CarePortal email list by sending a request to acccareportal@academychristian.org to receive the needs and requests and links to fulfill the need.
COSILoveYou
COSILoveYou is a City Gospel Movement in Colordado Springs. Our mission is to unite and ignite the local Church to love the city. The vision: That every woman, man and child would experience the tangible love of God.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support; ACC takes part in the yearly CityServe Day and Citywide Worship.
Crossfire Ministries
Crossfire Ministries is a Christian, faith-based, non-profit organization seeking to put God's love into action, dedicated to offering hope and encouragement for a changed life by furnishing the daily necessities to those in need. We show up for the short term and with loose hands allow God to guide the long term.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support, monthly food and other item collections, Thanksgiving food drive, onsite hands and feet projects.
Crossroads Ministries USA
Their mission is to provide compassionate spiritual and emotional care to the elderly living in care centers through one-on-one visits, on-going Bible study and friendship, ensuring their well-being and dignity.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support; special projects; and a group of ACC servants visits Cedarwood Health Care Center the 2nd Saturday of every month at 1:00 PM. Carpooling available from ACC at 12:30 PM. All ages are welcome.
Kairos Prison Ministry
By sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, Kairos hopes to change hearts, transform lives, and impact the world
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support; ACC volunteers support activities in a local prison.
Life Network
The mission of Life Network is to cultivate a community that values life through the love of Christ, which is achieved by Presenting the gospel, providing life-afferming abortion alternatives, promiting sexual integrity & healthy decision, empowering parents, Giving hope and healing post-abortion, and engaging the community.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support; clothing and baby items collections; ACC volunteers support various activities at Life Network; support for the annual Walk For Life.
Make it A Home (MiAH)
MiAH is working to empower individuals and families in need to live their best lives by providing essential items and furnishings necessary to make their living space a home.
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ACC's Involvement
Serve at different projects and collect needed materials.
Mercy's Gate
For people in crisis, Mercy's Gate offers relief, the hope of the Gospel, and a vision for restoration through life-changing support and resources to people in crisis. They offer comprehensive direct services serving our neighbors in crisis in Jesus' name.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support; food and clothing collections; ACC volunteers are supporting various activities at Mercy’s Gate.
Shield 616
Shield 616 works tirelessly so that they can help first responders go towards danger knowing that they have the best physical protection available and the love of their community behind them.
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Springs Food Pantry
Springs Food Pantry has been serving the Colorado Springs and surrounding areas for over 26 years. We are the only no boundaries pantry in southern Colorado.
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ACC Involvement
ACC provides volunteers for the food pantry each weekend it is open.
Springs Rescue Mission
Because of their love for and obedience to God, Springs Rescue Mission's mission is to mobilize the community to provide housing, health and work services for neighbors in need.
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ACC's Involvement
Serve at different projects and collect needed materials.
Westside Cares
Westside CARES provides many services to the community, including: food pantries / The Lord's Dinner, financial assistance, medical assistance, special seasonal programs, & referrals.
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ACC Westside is one of Westside CARES’ member faith communities. We participate in membership meetings and offer financial and volunteer support to Westside CARES throughout the year.
Nationally Supported Ministries
Boise Bible College
Since Boise Bible was founded, its purpose has been to train young men and women to be servant leaders who will invest in building up the church so that the gospel can be innovatively advanced worldwide.
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Chaplaincy Endorsement Commission
The Chaplaincy Endorsement Commission serves Christian Churches & Churches of Christ by evaluating and endorsing applicants for chaplaincy positions in the United States Armed Forces, hospitals, prisons, police, and other institutions.
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Colorado Christian Service Camp
Colorado Christian Service Camp (Camp Como) offers a wide variety of quality camping experiences and retreats for children and adults alike. Camp provides a place to form Christian relationships, and the simpler lifestyle allows time to appreciate and ponder God’s majesty.
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Crossfire Ministries
Dallas Christian College is located in Dallas, Texas. Associate and Bachelor’s degrees are offered in various Christian ministries.
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Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan
Emmanuel Christian Seminary brings together strong academics, a commitment to ministry both at home and abroad, and true discipleship in a loving Christian community in order to train the next generation of leaders in ministry.
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ACC's Involvement
Impact Colorado
One ministry serving in two locations (Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado), Impact Colorado is a community exploring life with Jesus Christ on the college campus.
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Ozark Christian College
The mission of Ozark Christian College is to train men and women for Christian service as a degree-granting institution of biblical higher education. Emphasis is given to vocational preparation for preaching ministers, missionaries, worship ministers, youth ministers and children’s ministers.
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ACC's Involvement
Financial support; clothing and baby items collections; ACC volunteers support various activities at Life Network; support for the annual Walk For Life.
Young Life
Young Life’s mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith.
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Internationally Supported Ministries
African Leadership Development
African Leadership Development exists to Assist the Church, by Mentoring, Empowering, and Networking Leaders in Africa. The Houses of Hope Africa, our orphan care ministry, is caring for 20 orphans in Zimbabwe, who have lost their parents and aunts and uncles due to HIV/AIDS.
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Bangladesh Christian Mission (BCM)
This non-denominational Christian organization supports the work of spreading the Gospel to unreached people groups throughout the country of Bangladesh. BCM utilizes national evangelists preaching the Good News by traveling from villages to major cities.
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Christian Center for Science & Apologetics
The Christian Center for Science and Apologetics‘ goal is to introduce the Truth to skeptics, strengthen the saints in their confidence in the Truth and to equip God’s people to proclaim God’s word effectively. Academy Christian Church supports the founder of this mission.
Christian Missionary Fellowship Int'l
Lynn Pottenger teaches English as a second language to Turkana church leaders in Kenya and produces materials for them to use in their Bible Studies. She also participates in and teaches courses at the Turkana Bible Training Institute. The Turkana people are now responsible for the literacy program, and Lynn serves as their consultant.
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Compassion International - Ecuador
Compassion began its ministry in Ecuador in 1974. Since then, hundreds of thousands of generous people have donated to children in Ecuador through Child Sponsorship. ACC supports a church in Ecuador and has numerous members sponsoring the children there and all around the world through Compassion.
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FAME
Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME) shares the love of Christ with the lost all over the world through the provision of clinics, hospitals, medical care and missionaries. FAME seeks to meet the needs of both body and spirit.
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IDES
International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is a worldwide channel of benevolence and evangelism assisting those who have suffered from natural disasters and emergencies. IDES provides funds to feed the starving, help the sick, secure fresh water, and rebuild.
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Missions of Hope Int'l
Poverty fractures relationship with self, others, God, and society. Missions of Hope strives to make these relationships whole and transform lives so people in extreme poverty can live as God intended. Our strategy is holistic: The whole gospel for the whole person.
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Sponsorships for children available on the website and trips happen yearly. ACC supports the Bondeni School
New International
The missionary ACC supports through New International is one of the founding members of The Eastern Bible Institute in Myanmar where he teaches and serves as chairman of Myanmar Vision Ministries. The ministry includes training local pastors and Bible school teachers at a graduate level.
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Pioneer Bible Translators
Pioneer Bible Translators bridges the gap between the church and the Bibleless peoples around the world. Our team is composed of Bible translators, literacy evangelists, church planters and a variety of support personnel working to see transformed lives through God’s Word in every language.
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Pioneers
For 40 years, Pioneers missionaries have been using innovative and creative means to bring the gospel to every corner of the globe. Daniel & Katie are serving in Bosnia and impacting the people around them with Katie’s nursing skills, and Daniel is helping with support through youth activities and mentoring those God places around them.
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Resound
The Wei Family has partnered with Resound and is a supported by Academy Christian Church family who participates in a ministry that is working to assist Asians cross-culturally for the sake of the Gospel. They have currently started an underground church and are continuing to learn the cultural language to come alongside the unreached.
South Pacific Christian Fellowship
South Pacific Christian Fellowship promotes fellowship, evangelism, and church growth in the self-proclaimed post-Christian countries of New Zealand and Australia. Successful church planting activity has reached many people who need to hear the Word of God in these areas.
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The SPCF office is located in our ACC building and E. Richard Crabtree is a former pastor of Academy Christian Church.
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