WHAT IS GENEROSITY SUNDAY
2026 Goal: $450,000

Generosity Sunday is a time for us to come together in prayer and giving as a church family. Throughout the week, we seek God and ask Him to align our hearts for generosity.

This year, we are prayerfully aiming to raise $450,000 to support the work God is doing locally, regionally, and around the world through missions and outreach. These are special initiatives that go beyond our regular weekly contribution, trusting Him to use our giving to impact lives.

See more details about these special initiatives below

Join us for a week of prayer 4/27-5/10
Each day of the week we are focusing on a different initiative that our giving goes to.

GEN SUNDAY PRAYER INITIATIVES

Trinidad & Tobago:

  • For God to inspire men to serve as elders; wisdom on buying a facility to have services (timing, price, location)
  • For Teens Camp to strengthen their Teen Ministry and forge stronger bonds with North River volunteers.

Barbados:

  • The church currently has very few young professionals (20-30 yr olds), but some are studying the Bible so pray for God to add to their number men and women in that age range.
  • Just hired two young campus interns, so pray for them to become more like Jesus and for them to receive great training in the ministry.

Jamaica:

  • Keep praying for their recovery from Hurricane Melissa, still lots of infrastructure and members homes needing repair

Haiti:

  • The church members are still navigating the challenges of gangs taking over

The SWAMP has been our church kids camp for more than 20 years! Through years of giving, we helped pay off the mortgage and our continued giving goes to maintain the property and keep the summer weekly camper cost managable. 

Not only are there week long camps over the summer for campers to connect with God, their friends, and nature - but throughout the year the SWAMP hosts many camps to bless our family including Father/Son Camp, Mother/Daughter camp, teen retreats, etc. 

You can check out all their camps and learn more about the SWAMP on their website. 

Prayer Requests from Ghana:

  • Spiritual and Numerical Growth
  • Each disciple to be focused and mission minded
  • That our marrieds will fulfil the purpose that God has for marriages (Kendall and Dian Knight will be leading a marriage retreat in Accra in late May)
  • Peace and Unity throughout the church
  • For Kwaku and Lydia who have Mental Health challenges
  • Full-time staff especially for our churches outside Accra

- Our Geneoristy Sunday covers a majority of the Lighthouse mortgage.

- The lighthouse is serves our next generation ministries in so many way: Middle school classes, teen midweeks, campus devos, thrive services.

- 180 Sports ministry and the gym has developed so many intergenerational relationships and provided outreach opportunities through Saturday basketball open gym, pickleball, volleyball, and so much more.

- The Hope Depot has a home in our lighthouse! Serving the community as a homebase for care packages, books, and weekly food distribution.

Ukraine:

  • Peace for the country and the church.
  • Physical needs for the Disciples including saftey, food, shelter.
  • The gospel to shine bright in such a dark time.

RevivEE:

  • For God to use this inspiring program that sends teams on 10 month mission trips to small churches in cities across Eastern Europe to spark revival. More information here.

 

We are part of the Georgia/Midsouth Region in our family of churches. It is a family of 15 churches across our part of the Southeast. Here are several needs you can pray for.

Atlanta: 

  • Monthly Atlanta Minister meetings have led to incredible unity and a growing vision for how God can use us together to do what we cannot do on our own. 

Ga/Midsouth:

  • Most of the 15 churches in our region are under 100 members and do not have full time staff. Pray for God to bring a revival across these churches.
  • For God to guide us in how we can support and help one another.

Auburn:

  • North River planted the Auburn Tuskegee Christian Church 15 years ago!
  • Pray for a new minister - they haven't had a minister the last 5 years.
  • Pray for God to strengthen and grow their singles and young professional ministry.

Athens:

  • Pray for God to lead them to their next evangelist. They currently just have a campus minister and are looking for their next minister. 

Generosity Sunday helps North River pass our faith to the next generation supporting:

- Summer Teen Interns

- Campus Interns

- Our new "Residency Program" for campus students or young singles to be a part time resident through the year to receive extra leadership training and have opportunites to serve.

- North River School of Bible and Leadership to train and teach our next generation staff as well as younger staff from across the region.