OUTREACH: MISSION & MINISTRY

The Cloverdale Community Kitchen is located in Pacific Community Church. Every Christmas we participate in the food drive and hamper packing event to serve the less fortunate individuals and families of Cloverdale with hampers over the Christmas season.

In February, we participate in The Coldest Night of the Year walk which is a family-friendly national walk-a-thon that helps raise funds for charities that serve hungry, homeless and hurting people in your town.

Every 4th Wednesday of the month a team of Sonrise volunteers serve a meal at the kitchen to those in need in our community.

Our Church is connected to a larger organization, the ACOP (Apostolic Church of Pentecost). Made up of the districts: BC Coast and Islands District, Interior and Northern District. In the BC Coast and Islands District, the focus of financial resources is on Canadian church planting and developing leaders.

Message Trust exists to help others share the Christian message in words and actions to young people through creative mission, community transformation, and Christ-centered enterprise. They do this by supporting projects in deprived neighbourhoods like the Downtown Eastside (DTES) in Vancouver. For example, Coastal Church has planted an Eden team, made up of Christians who have chosen to live sacrificially by moving in long-term to share the gospel and see the community transformed from the inside out.

The City Dream Centre exists to support the underprivileged and vulnerable who live in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia. They serve our region through providing the adopt a school program, making hampers for those in need, providing Dental Care for the underprivileged and much more.

Sonrise Church has been supporting The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley for many years and enjoy every moment of it. Annually, Sonrise has the honor of raising money to provide back to school backpacks for the children of BBBSL, and they also have the privilege of hosting the Annual Agency Christmas Party for more than the past decade. It is always exciting to see the families come through and partner with our community.

Cowichan is located on seventy-six acres of the property divided by the Cowichan River, nine miles west of Duncan, BC o Vancouver Island. The camp is a choice location for Family camping. Time at Cowichan will be a life-changing experience for every age.

The Gospel Mission is located in the downtown eastside of Vancouver and is the oldest mission in the city and the oldest in Canada. It has been in operation since 1929 and has been at its current location since the 1940s, as a place of caring with food, services, and ministry to the needy.

Addiction and substance abuse have left a trail of broken and devastated lives across the lower mainland. Wagner Hills has been a place of transformation for many over 40 years and Sonrise Church is pleased to work alongside them to provide HEALING, GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION in the lives of people at Wagner Hills.

Bruce and Lauren Lungren have served as disciple-makers, trainers of pastors, and mission mobilizers in West Africa, northern France, and Quebec since 1989. They've led missions training in 6 countries and 2 languages and have recently relocated to France to build a mobilization movement to ignite and equip the French-speaking Church for world evangelism. Several of their disciples serve among unreached people groups in Muslim and ethnic religious contexts.

Eston College is our ACOP ministry training school located in Regina, SK. Their mission is to see young men and women rise up as Disciples of Christ who are educated in the wisdom of the Bible who walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit and who extend God’s grace by serving as ambassadors in the home, church, and marketplace.

Street Invaders is a summer youth missions program for students ages 13-18 that is designed to help you put your faith into action. With a goal to help students to walk in relationship with Jesus while being empowered to make a difference wherever they go. They have seen thousands of young people all over the world become passionate disciples of Jesus.

This initiative partners Sonrise Church with ACOP churches and Leaders in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi to assist in their efforts to rescue and feed hundreds of orphans.

Our outreach also impacts Mozambique, where ACOP has an orphanage with about 60 children being cared for and schooled on site. As well, we invest into humanitarian support through the feeding centres in Malawi.

We are expanding our investment in sustainability projects for each orphan care centre. These include gardens, piggeries, chicken farms, and fish farms, along with wells for freshwater.

Join us to support this work through a regular monthly of $35 each month. About 600 orphans are receiving monthly support through this initiative.

Emblaze provides support and resources internationally for the persecuted church to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and plant thriving national churches. It is our calling to supply national workers with the tools necessary for evangelism and church planting, and to share their passion with the Church in North America.

Emblaze currently works with leaders in five countries, Cuba, Canada, Ethiopia, Nepal, and Nigeria.

Emblaze is led by Ike and Courtney Chukuka alongside Michelle Wright, who co-founded the ministry with her late husband Darryl, all of which are Partners at Sonrise Church.

The Mission is to take the gospel of the Kingdom to every person and connect them to a local church to become disciples of Jesus. The main role is to prepare believers with a good understanding of the gospel message, through teaching, training, and equipping and to motivate and mobilize them to effectively reach the lost.

Currently the ministry is working in these main areas: Argentina, Terrace, Kitimat and Bella Bella. They are also making inroads into: Alert bay, Port Hardy, Chahalis, skookumchuck, Tipela and Mt. Curry.

Glorious Harvest is led by Jose Mendoza, he and his wife Brenda are Partners at Sonrise Church.

A young family, based in the Middle East, are global workers who focus on reaching unreached people. “We are committed to sharing the love of Jesus with the unreached and unengaged; making disciples, and seeing a locally led movement of disciple making happen in this area of the world.”

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Another Family are global workers in East Africa amoung unreached people group. They are planted in one of the most non-Christian countries. They have some incredible stories of God working!

“Living and working among unreached peoples, we get to be the hands and feet of Jesus and light up the darkness, everywhere we go. We plant seeds, share hope, and walk alongside people as they become disciples of Jesus and then send them out to multiply.”

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The Apostolic Church of Pentecost is home to our ACOP President and staff. It’s a Fellowship that represents hundreds of churches and credentialed ministers across Canada.

We’re committed to being a global movement of passionate people extending God’s grace and igniting hope in every community and strive to develop and release effective leaders and healthy churches who transform communities.