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Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:05

Facility Rental Application

      

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:05

Wedding Application

BASE WEDDING SERVICES & HOURS:

* Pre-Rehearsal: Initial Planning with Wedding Coordinator -1-2 hour
* Pre-Rehearsal: Business & Administrative Work with Wedding Coordinator - 1-2 hours
* Pre-Rehearsal: Phone Consolations with Wedding Coordinator -1-2 hour

* Rehearsal: Building Usage - 2-4 hours
* Rehearsal: Wedding Coordinator - 2-4 hours
* Rehearsal: Tech person-2-4 hours

* Wedding Ceremony: Building Usage-2-8 hours
* Wedding Ceremony: Tech Person- 2-6 hours
* Wedding Ceremony: Coordinator-2-8 hours

Total average hours - 30-40

BASE WEDDING SERVICE FEES: $1500.00

OPTIONAL SERVICES & FEES:

1. Optional: Impact Minister For Rehearsal & Ceremony - $300.00
2. Optional: Pastoral Marriage Counseling (6-8 sessions) -$40.00 per session
3. Optional: Support Workers (i.e tech, parking, servers, etc) - $10.00 per hour for each person
4. Optional: Hall Rental - Price Varies. Party is responsible for set up and clean up,unless hiring optional support. (10 hours max) (100 people maximum fit in hall with traditional tables and seating)
5. Optional: Wedding Coordinator fee for church members - Price Varies.

GENERAL BUILDING USE RATES
PROCESS OF SECURING EVENT & EXPECTATIONS:

1. * $200.00 check or cash deposit required to secure date.
2. * Deposit payment demonstrates understanding and agreement to the terms on this website and your application.
3. * Non-refundable deposit with cancellation after 20 days of event.
4. * Any damage incurred will be deducted. Deposit returned within 15 business days.
. * Full payment required 15 days in advance.
6.Music must contain no profanity or anti-Christian content (theology & practice). Must Submit Music playlist to Wedding Coordinator 1 week in advance.
7. Dancing must be positive and non-sensual.
8. Portion of your deposit up to $250.00 will be held if these terms concerning the music & dance are violated. We desire to have a campus that is fun and non-legalistic, but still maintains it's dignity before God. Whatever we do at home or public we should be able to do at the church facility and vise versa.

9. All extra hours beyond the base service hours for wedding or reception are billed at $100.00 per hour

Wedding Ceremony Moral Expectations:

In order to be qualified for a pastor do to your wedding ceremony at Impact Miami Church:

1) Both people must be Christian and members of healthy Christ-Centered Church where they attend, participate and tithe unto the Lord. A reference letter from their pastor should be emailed to our pastors (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

2) They should have abstained from sex through out their relationship or through out the pre-marital counseling sessions. Bible teaches in Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral"

3) They cannot be living in the same house together. No exceptions, even if couple are living with their parents. Bible reads in Romans 14:20-2 "Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall"

4) The couple in most cases should complete marriage counseling at least 60 days before the wedding date and be open to the possibility of canceling their wedding if couple discovers through marriage counseling they are not spiritually, morally or emotionally compatible (it is advised you have a 30 day release waiver on your ceremony and reception rental agreement & other materials purchasing or renting).

EXEMPTIONS: Some couples who have a rich Christian testimony, character witnesses, or widowed with Christian marriage experiences, or who have prepared themselves for marriage through other means of formal and informal training may be exempted from our 6-8 week Marriage Counseling Sessions. Pastors will determine this based on each situation and context.
BASE WEDDING SERVICES & HOURS:

* Pre-Rehearsal: Initial Planning with Wedding Coordinator -1-2 hour
* Pre-Rehearsal: Business & Administrative Work with Wedding Coordinator - 1-2 hours
* Pre-Rehearsal: Phone Consolations with Wedding Coordinator -1-2 hour

* Rehearsal: Building Usage - 2-4 hours
* Rehearsal: Wedding Coordinator - 2-4 hours
* Rehearsal: Tech person-2-4 hours

* Wedding Ceremony: Building Usage-2-8 hours
* Wedding Ceremony: Tech Person- 2-6 hours
* Wedding Ceremony: Coordinator-2-8 hours

Total average hours - 30-40

BASE WEDDING SERVICE FEES: $1500.00

OPTIONAL SERVICES & FEES:

1. Optional: Impact Minister For Rehearsal & Ceremony - $300.00
2. Optional: Pastoral Marriage Counseling (6-8 sessions) -$40.00 per session
3. Optional: Support Workers (i.e tech, parking, servers, etc) - $10.00 per hour for each person
4. Optional: Hall Rental - Price Varies. Party is responsible for set up and clean up,unless hiring optional support. (10 hours max) (100 people maximum fit in hall with traditional tables and seating)
5. Optional: Wedding Coordinator fee for church members - Price Varies.

GENERAL BUILDING USE RATES
PROCESS OF SECURING EVENT & EXPECTATIONS:

1. * $200.00 check or cash deposit required to secure date.
2. * Deposit payment demonstrates understanding and agreement to the terms on this website and your application.
3. * Non-refundable deposit with cancellation after 20 days of event.
4. * Any damage incurred will be deducted. Deposit returned within 15 business days.
. * Full payment required 15 days in advance.
6.Music must contain no profanity or anti-Christian content (theology & practice). Must Submit Music playlist to Wedding Coordinator 1 week in advance.
7. Dancing must be positive and non-sensual.
8. Portion of your deposit up to $250.00 will be held if these terms concerning the music & dance are violated. We desire to have a campus that is fun and non-legalistic, but still maintains it's dignity before God. Whatever we do at home or public we should be able to do at the church facility and vise versa.

9. All extra hours beyond the base service hours for wedding or reception are billed at $100.00 per hour

Wedding Ceremony Moral Expectations:

In order to be qualified for a pastor do to your wedding ceremony at Impact Miami Church:

1) Both people must be Christian and members of healthy Christ-Centered Church where they attend, participate and tithe unto the Lord. A reference letter from their pastor should be emailed to our pastors (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

2) They should have abstained from sex through out their relationship or through out the pre-marital counseling sessions. Bible teaches in Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral"

3) They cannot be living in the same house together. No exceptions, even if couple are living with their parents. Bible reads in Romans 14:20-2 "Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall"

4) The couple in most cases should complete marriage counseling at least 60 days before the wedding date and be open to the possibility of canceling their wedding if couple discovers through marriage counseling they are not spiritually, morally or emotionally compatible (it is advised you have a 30 day release waiver on your ceremony and reception rental agreement & other materials purchasing or renting).

EXEMPTIONS: Some couples who have a rich Christian testimony, character witnesses, or widowed with Christian marriage experiences, or who have prepared themselves for marriage through other means of formal and informal training may be exempted from our 6-8 week Marriage Counseling Sessions. Pastors will determine this based on each situation and context.
    
    

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:05

Pastoral Counseling Request Form

  • First intake session is free.
  • 50 minute session.
  • Contribution required before each session.
  • No refunds if appointment cancelled, or missed within a 48 hour window. 
  • If cancelled before 48 hour window monies will be applied towards next appointment.
  

* We cannot guarantee availability of time you are requesting. But, we will do our best to accommodate your schedule.

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:04

Baby Dedication Request Form

Question: What Are The Requirements To Dedicate My Baby?

 

Answer: A parent, or parents must be a participating disciple of our church family, or come with a pastoral reference letter from another church .

 

 

Question: What is Baby Dedication?

 

Answer: Many Christian churches practice Baby Dedication instead of infant Baptism. A Baby Dedication is a ceremony in which believing parents, and sometimes entire families, make a commitment before the Lord to submit a child to God's will and to raise that child according to God's Word and God's ways.

 

Question: What Are The Responsibilities Involved in Baby Dedication?

 

Answer: Christian parents who dedicate a child are making a promise to the Lord to do everything within their power to raise the child in a godly way, prayerfully until he or she can make a decision on his or her own to follow God. Parents who make this vow of commitment are instructed to raise the child in the ways of God, and not according to their own ways. Some of the responsibilities include teaching and training the child in God's Word, demonstrating an example of godliness, disciplining according to God's ways, and praying earnestly for the child.

 

Question: What Examples of Baby Dedication Are Taught In The Bible? 

 

Answer: 

 

1 Samuel 1 reads

And she (Hannah) made a vow, saying, "O LORD Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant's misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head." ........When God answered Hannah's prayer by giving her a son, she remembered her vow.......

 "As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD." And he worshiped the LORD there" 

 

 

Luke 2:22-24

22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”, 24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.” 

    
    
    
    
    
    

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:04

Online Prayer Request

  

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:03

New Member Vote

  
  

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:03

Spiritual Retreat Registration

  

TBA

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:03

Benevolance Application

  
I hereby authorize the release of information in order to receive the assistance I am requesting. 
 
I further certify the information I have stated is true and correct and that all income is reported. 
 
I understand this agency may verify the information on the application and the deliberate misrepresentation of information may subject me to  denial of assistance. 
 
I give permission to this agency to discuss my case with other agencies, individuals and any others deemed necessary to verify the application information and/or identify additional sources of assistance. 
 
I understand that all information will remain as private as possible within these entities. 
 
I have read, understand and agree to the policies above the regarding the Release of Information. 
 

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:02

Couples Open Heart Discussion Guide

Choose a day and time that you and your partner can have complete privacy for at least 2 hours. Preferably the beach, park, hotel, bedroom, etc. No kids. Please leave them with a sitter.
 
Man will ask the first question as the initiator (HEAD). With each question you will give your partner up to 5 minutes of uninterrupted time answer.  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU ALLOWED TO ANSWER, ARGUE OR DEBATE THEIR ANSWERS!!!! JUST LISTEN!!!
 
As they answer please listen with an intent to have peace and pray for God to help you see the heart of your partner and not just their words. Sometimes when people are hurt or depressed they can use offensive words that don't convey their true emotions properly. They are angry because they love you and feel like they are losing control or have been violated, disrespected or ignored!
 
Be civil and respectful. The Holy Spirit is teaching you about yourself as they speak. It may be extremely painful. There is “gain without pain”. Transformation through these intimate sessions are greater than any other experience.You are “one” with your partner. God molds us into the image of Christ through this “One Flesh” relationship more than any other relationship on earth. Marriage is His design. Embrace the pain  and watch how He heals and changes you through “Open Heart Discussions”.
1. How have I been making you feel this last week with my actions & attitudes?
 
2. Is there anything I can do to make you feel more special and loved?
 
3. How has your job or daily responsibilities been? Do you feel good or bad about your success?
 
4. How has your relationship with God been? Do you feel loved, encouraged, abandoned, or challenged by Him?
 
5. How are your friendships going? Are cultivating friendships with good friends?
 
6. How is your health? How have you been taking care of your body and mind?
 
7. How has my physical affection, foreplay and sexual interaction been pleasing to you?
 
8. What can I do to stir up your romance and sexual appetite?
 
9. How can I pray for you today?

Close the session in prayer for each other and over the issues you presented as you were communicating. Each of you should pray for 5-10 minutes. Authentically ask God for forgiveness and help for yourself and your partner. Let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart as your partner prays.Listen for His still small voice. Prayer enables you to give up control over issues in your relationship and soul you cannot change. Only God can change hearts, attitudes, and actions as we cooperate with Him by faith! As they say “Let go and let God”!

I state with my signature and email below that we followed the instructions for this assignment with best of our ability and all the facts communicated are true and came from us:

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 21:02

Annual Member Pledge

This form allows our church to create a budget based on pledges. This pledge does not obligate members. It is merely an estimate based on your passed income. Your future financial status is in the Lord's hands.

As a church we will be asking God to do above and beyond the limited resources and abilities we posses. He can!

Together in unity and by faith we can fulfill the mission of the Lord:

"To abide in continuous relationship with Jesus Christ as we develop disciples in His Name  (John 15; Matthew 28:18-20)"

 Stand with us in the Lord as the Holy Spirit says in 1 Corinthians 15:58,

"Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain"

 

Sincerely In Him,

Pastoral Team

Why is the church talking about what I do with my money?
Except for the Kingdom of God, Jesus talked more about money than anything else. That is because he knew that money will always play a significant role in lives and is, therefore, a matter of Christian discipleship. It belongs to God, who cares what we do with it.
 
What is a pledge?  
A pledge is an estimate of what you will invest in the church ministry in the coming year based on your current situation.  A pledge is not a legally binding contract. It can always be adjusted up or down based on what happens during the year.   
 
Why do we make a financial pledge?  What difference does it make?  
For individuals, pledging helps us to prayerfully plan for our financial contribution to the mission and ministry of Jesus through his church. For the faith community, it helps us build a realistic budget and tangibly demonstrates that we are part of this journey and will do our part. 
 
Who makes a pledge?  
Members and non-members alike, adults and children – anyone can make a pledge. Couples can pledge either as individuals or together.  Ideally, every participant in the Impact Miami Church will make a financial pledge.
 
How much should I pledge?  
Biblical stewardship is more about proportion than dollar amount. In keeping with what we believe scripture teaches, we see the “tithe,” or 10% of our gross income, as a good starting point.   When we give the tithe, 10% or “first fruits” of what God has entrusted us, it “honors the owner” and invests in God’s favorite ministry, the church. 
 
What is the difference between a pledge and a tithe?
Any estimate of giving submitted on a pledge card is a pledge. If that pledge is 10% or more of gross income, it is a tithe.
 
What if the tithe seems financially unrealistic for me?  
Tithing or putting “first things first,” helps reorder our financial life. So ironically it may turn out to be realistic after all. If your a guest at Impact Miami  Church give what your able, but consistency help us grow. If your a member the starting point is 10%. God may ask you to live off only 10% and tithe 90% like many have done throughout history (i.e. J.C. Penny).  Either way, your motivation and attitude are most important.  Take a step.  Whatever you pledge, let it be with a joyful heart, trusting that God will provide.
 
What if my income is presently uncertain or changes this year? 
Just make a reasonable estimate based on your projected income. All of us have income coming in from some where that we should be tithing on. You can adjust your giving along the way. If you experience a major income increase or decrease, you are welcome to revise your pledge at any time during the year.  
 
What is the church budget?  
It takes significant financial resources to fund ministries, staff and facilities. A combination of tithes/offerings and investment/facility income have made that possible. To be a healthy and viable church, we must grow to the point that our tithes/offerings or “living giving” and facility income fund the entire budget, which is carefully and faithfully managed by your elected church leaders.  
 
How do I make a pledge?  
Pledge forms are online.  When you fill it out your will received an copy via email. Please put a valid email address. You can give your offering or tithe by cash, check, bank transfer or by credit card.  For more information regarding bank transfer or other forms of giving, please contact the church office or the web site.
 
How often should I give?
Most people give on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Weekly giving is most helpful for the church as it ensures a consistent flow of resources to cover our regular expenses.

Impact Family Church expects it’s members to participate in the joyful giving of a minimum ten percent from gross income every month (Tithe)  (2 Corinthians 9:6-14). We base a minimum tithe on the biblical practice found in the Old Testament pre-Mosaic law (Genesis 14:20). Also, Jesus affirmed that tithing should be practiced, but not without "justice, mercy and faithfulness" (Matthew 23:23).

 

In the Book of Acts we see Jewish Christians who were accustomed to the sabbath synagogue worship practice of tithing going above and beyond this requirement due to their new found love and awe of Jesus Christ. Due to the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead they felt compelled to worship Him and join the apostles in the fellowship of sharing their resources (Acts 2:42-47, Acts 4:35-37).

God's people shouldn't rob God of His tithe or free will offerings, thus loose out on their blessings (Malachi 3). They should respond to God's amazing grace by following Jesus Christ and dying to their selfish ambitions (Mark 8:34)!

 

Please reflect on the following scriptures:

 

1) Paid by Abraham to Melchizedek (Genesis 14:20; Hebrews 7:2-6)

2) Jacob vows a tenth of all his property to God (Genesis 28:22)

3) Mosaic laws instituting (Leviticus 27:30-33; Numbers 18:21-24; Deuteronomy 12:6,7,17-19;14:22-)

4) Customs relating to (Nehemiah 10:37,38; Amos 4:4; Hebrews 7:5-9)

5) A tithe of tithes for the priests (Numbers 18:26; Nehemiah 10:38)

6) Stored in the temple (Nehemiah 10:38,39;12:44;13:5,12; 2 Chronicles 31:11,12; Malachi 3:)

7) Payment of, resumed in Hezekiah's reign (2 Chronicles 31:5-10)

8) Under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:12)

9) Withheld (Nehemiah 13:10; Malachi 3:8)

10) Customary in later times and affirmed by Jesus (Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42;18:12)

11) Observed by idolaters (Amos 4:4,5)

12) Source of income for priest in OT and clergy in NT (1 Corinthians 9: 13-14, 1 Timothy 5:17-19, Galatians 6:6, Luke 8:2-3, Philippians 4:14-20)

 

 

OTHER RESOURCES:

TITHING IS BIBLICAL by Kenneth S. Hemphill

An Inside Look at Church Attenders Who Tithe the Most by Christianity Today

 

 

 

      

As an act of worship to God and love for my local church, I pledge this year:

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