2. 2 Ignite a passion in veterans, active military, and their families to follow Jesus Our Mission

3. 3 Situation (Friendly) College Park has several veterans, military personnel, and their families. HVAF of Indiana, Inc. is a homeless veteran organization whose chief goal is to end veteran homelessness. There are a whole host of similar organizations. Military Ministry

4. 4 Situation (Enemy) Satan wants us to ignore our veterans, active military personnel and their families. Secularism and progressivism are big enemies of Christ and of truly helping our veterans, active military and their families. Military Ministry

5. 5 Mission: Veterans, active military, and their families of College Park Church will purposefully engage and connect with veterans, active military, and their families to ignite a passion to follow Jesus on the home front and on the battlefield throughout the year. Military Ministry

6. 6 Commander’s Intent: Ignite a passion for veterans and active military to follow Jesus! Military Ministry

7. 7 Deployment Post- Deployment Pre- Deployment

8. 8 Deployment Support Battle Buddies Family Support HVAF of Indiana Annual Veteran’s Day Celebration Annual Citizen’s Memorial Day Walk Military Ministry

9. 9 Deployment Support Spring (Month of May in time for Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day) Fall (Month of October in time for Veteran’s Day) Packages Seasonal campaign focus Includes bibles Includes letters from children Military Ministry

10. 10 Battle Buddies Veterans in a 1x1 battle buddy relationship Special training to prepare and set expectations Align Indiana Guard, Reserve, and Active units Military Ministry

11. 11 Family support Be the support network for families of deployed troops –Be there to listen and just be there –Engage CPC tradesmen for specific needs (lawn mowing, house painting, house repair, appliance repair, car repair, etc) Align with Indiana Guard, Reserve, and Active units Military Ministry

12. 12 HVAF of Indiana Monthly meals at the Warman house. Volunteers to assist in bible studies, art classes, work at scattered site housing, and admin support. Provide fundraising efforts, food for the emergency pantry, clothing, and housing needs. Military Ministry

13. 13 Annual Veteran’s Day Celebration Event On or near Veteran’s day Worship the Lord, honor those who served, and invite veterans to Christ Reach out to local community to invite veterans Military Ministry

14. 14 Annual Citizen’s Memorial Day Walk On Memorial day Guide the Next Gen ministry kids through the various War Memorials in downtown Indianapolis Tie together responsibilities of spiritual citizenship with national citizenship. Military Ministry

15. 15 Leadership Team Pastoral Leader: Don Bartemus Lay Leader: Arne Pedersen Deployment Support: Stan and Jan Gaidis Battle Buddies: Rex Joseph Family Care: Dennis and Valerie Couts HVAF of Indiana: Andy Bokmeyer and Arne Pedersen Annual Veteran’s Day Celebration: Arne Pedersen and Jeff Hallal Annual Citizen’s Memorial Day Walk: Arne Pedersen and Don Bartemus Military Ministry