2023 Year In Review

 

When you see the life change numbers, the new campus additions (The Storehouse Market, Staff Offices, BlastZone), and the community impact, it is a truly miraculous look back at 2023. God has been so good to us, but as we say at 5 Point all of the time, God is just waiting on us to open up the floodgates of His impact! Church, we are making great strides towards impacting our community and this world for the Kingdom of God.

This past year, we launched a new Ministry structure that included class. These have taken off and flourished, with topics from Spiritual Formation to Financial Peace and everything in between. We have had hundreds of people go through workshops at the church, focusing on the Old & New Testaments and Eschatology. We are truly digging into God’s word and growing in our knowledge of the Bible and taking it out to the community. This was evident on a trip to Israel in February of 2023 when a guide mentioned to Pastor Lawson that he had never had a group so knowledgeable of the Bible in all his years of guiding church groups. He was astounded! 5 Point, just imaging what God can do as we strive to grow deeper, read wider, and simply love more like Jesus each and every day!

2024 has already had a monumental start and here are a few highlights:

  • Eschatology Workshop

  • Over 70 salvation already this year

  • 24 Hours of Praise was an incredible success

  • Prayer Walk witnessed over 1,500 people praying all over the Upstate!

  • Easter saw our largest ever attendance of 4,100 people!

5 Point, we are just getting started in 2024! Let’s be prepared so God can use us for His glory!

Average attendance: 525
New Addition: Blastzone!

 

Average attendance: 225
Salvations: 70 | Baptisms: 24
Averaged 5 new students each week!

Legacy Teams

• An average 669 Legacy Team Members served weekly across 23 Legacy Teams
• 85 YTH Legacy Team Members
• 163 Storehouse Legacy Team Members

Ministries

• Life Groups: 849 participants
• Single’s Ministry: 61
• Spark Women’s Ministry average: 40
• Man Up Men’s Ministry average: 35
• The Vintage Group average: 48

Classes

• Women’s Bible study average: 66
• Men’s Bible study average: 42
• Financial Peace average: 15
• Freedom in Christ: 20
• Spiritual Formation: 35

2023 Financial Information

Income

Total:          $5,426,951.63

Expenses

Tithe $704,708.07 (14%)
Building: $104,216.42 (2%)
KidPoint: $387,085.56 (includes Blastzone addition) (7%)
Discipleship: $122,213.47 (2%)
Worship: $236,970.23 (5%)
Legacy Teams: $143,962.87 (3%)
Campus Safety: $61,318.36 (1%)
5 Point Youth: $110,017.40 (2%)
Personnel: $2,131,155.20 (40%)
Loan: $600,000 (11%)     
Operations: $708,542.41 (13%)

Total: $5,310,189.99

Community Groups and Ministries We Support:

10 Line Ministries
Alabaster House
Blue Ridge Community Church
Biblical Ministries Worldwide
Bridge Center Recovery
Campus Outreach
Chestnut Mountain Ranch
Child Freedom Coalition
City of Easley Small Town Christmas
Dacusville Recreation Department
The Dream Center of Pickens County
Easley High School Athletic Department
Easley High School Basketball
Easley Golf Team
Easley Varsity Cheer
Easley JV Football
Easley Varsity Football
Easley Marching Band
Easley Police Department
Easley Police Department Summer Camp
Fairplay Camp School
Family Promise of Pickens County
Foothills FCA
FCA Easley High
FCA Gettys
FCA Liberty High
FCA Liberty Middle
FCA Anderson County
FCA Powdersville
FCA Wren

FCA Edwards
Fearless Love Conference
Feed A Hungry Child PC Inc
Forest Acres Elementary
West End Elementary
Gettys Middle School
Gettys Team 5
Gettys Middle school football
Gleaning House
Gideons International
Habitat For Humanity of Pickens County
Haven of Rest
Hejaz Shrine Circus
Home with a Heart
Hope Women’s Center
International Pentecostal Holiness Church missions
JC Cares
Jones Ave Baptist Church
Kentucky Disaster Recovery Ministry
Liberty High School Cheer
Meals on Wheels
NAOAGA Fundraiser
Oconee Christian Academy
Petro Chuga
Pickens County Board of Disabilities
Pickens County UpperState Fair
Pickens County Fire Chiefs Association
Pickens County School District

Pickens County School District School Nurses
Polar Point
Powdersville High School
Prayer Walk
Predestined Teen Outreach
Prison Ministry
RC Edwards Middle
Rebuild Upstate
Refuge Foundation
Regent University
Ripple of One
Run Ministries
Salvation Army
Samaritan’s Health Clinic of Pickens County
South Carolina Baptist Convention
SHARE
SHINE
Smithfields Country Club
Soles for Souls
Switch Human Trafficking
Trey Jones Pastors Retreat
Tanzanian Mission team
Unconquered Foundation
United Christian Ministries
White Horse Heights Baptist Church- Ukrainian Refugee Ministry
Worldview Academy
Pickens County YMCA
ZTA Foundation