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Year in Review: 2024

We're celebrating the great things that God is doing at Damascus Road!  Here are the highlights...

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Lives Changed

  • 249 baptisms over 2 years!

  • 700+ serving on Sundays, throughout the week and in our local communities

  • 300+ first time guests

  • 480 Congregational Care Touches

  • 24 new LifeGroups launched with 120 taking a step into community

  • Over 90 LifeGroups and 700+ doing life together

Next Gen:

  • 63 children and youth baptisms

  • 160 children and 80 volunteers for Kids Camp resulting in 16 first-time faith professions

  • ~30 gathering each Sunday for Haven, our ministry for children, youth and adults impacted with disabilities

  • 150+ youth gathering weekly for AlieNation with 52 getting baptized

  • 35 young adults and leaders attended Passion Conference

Reaching the Community

Serve Day

  • 2 Serve Days with 150 volunteers serving close to 50 families

Serving Fair

  • Showcased our 12 local community partners

Christmas Alive

  • 250 families served (~1,000 individuals impacted!)

Frederick Rescue Mission's Souper Sunday

  • Raised $3,000

CareNet's Baby Bottle Collection Drive

  • Raised $5700

Damascus Road's Non-profit Partnerships

  • 200+ serving with our 12 partners

Night of Nations

  • ~150 attended this new event where global mission and many congregant's native countries were celebrated with dance, song, displays and cuisine samples as we partnered with CrossPointe Healing House.

The Greatest Gift

  • Over 1,000 attended a new live nativity presentation for the community to experience the Christmas story with their families.

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Reaching the World

Missionaries: ~200 sent around the world

Projects:

Johnstown - 88 Missionaries, 7 Baptisms

  • At a one-day evangelistic event, 2,000 people received food while the Gospel was shared door-to-door with 10 families. Community service included yard work for four elderly families, painting a local school, and grounds work at a tunnel. A Hope House was built for a family in need, and the Gospel was shared during a worship night and at a local grocery store.

Honduras - 85 Missionaries, 5 Baptisms

  • San Pedro Sula - Contributed to infrastructure and housing improvements by building two homes for families reunited with their children from orphanages.

  • Copán - Efforts focused on community support, construction, and evangelism. Seventeen families received food and clothing, four homes were built, and we provided man-power to a Baptist church and a local school. Additionally, a Vacation Bible School for 300 children and an evangelistic event reaching 400 people were organized.

  • Santa Bárbara - Humanitarian and spiritual outreach efforts included food distribution, an evangelistic event, and ministry to the Deaf community and local pastors.

Puerto Rico - 11 Missionaries

  • A missionary house was under construction, while nearly 100 local students received backpacks filled with school supplies. Several hundred people benefited from food distribution, and a community Bible study was held to engage and support local residents.

Germany - 6 Missionaries

  • The Gospel was shared at two baseball camps, where participation saw a notable increase, allowing more attendees to engage in both the sport and the message of faith.

South Africa

  • Continued financial support for the Kailesha Care Center that serves at-risk moms and children.

India - 2 Missionaries

  • Ongoing funding supporting our two church partners.

  • Pre-trip taken to look at the potential for a 2025 Mission trip.

Your Generosity

  • Gave over $200,000 to local and global partners

    • $20,000 year-end offering to Mt Airy Net, Living Water Shower Ministry, Restoration Church, Cross Point Healing House

    • $27,000 to Convoy of Hope for hurricane relief

  • Double December Generosity Challenge

    • $500,000+ given with 30 new givers

  • 113 new givers for the year

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We closed 2024 with nearly 700 showers given to our neighbors and over 5,000 distributed donated hygiene and other items to our neighbors in Frederick in just eight months! We have seen so much love of Jesus shared in those 8 months. Dignity has been restored, hope is growing, we have also seen some of our neighbors finally feel “good enough” to begin job searching after continuing to visit Living Water for warm and clean showers.

Partnerships and support through churches and individual like yours have enabled that hope and dignity to continue to thrive in these cold winter months. We have been able to purchase equipment that helps us power the heaters on our trailer and enables us to properly winterize after each day of operation. Because of your help, we are continuing our mission to “meet people’s greatest physical needs so that we introduce them to their greatest spiritual need in Jesus Christ” throughout these freezing temperatures.

We are incredibly and eternally grateful for your support and partnership! God bless you!

 

Tony Peterson, Living Water Shower Ministry

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