We courageously go.

Jesus didn’t leave his followers with a religion, he left them with a mission. Our mission is to spread this Jesus movement everywhere we go and to the ends of the earth. Driven by discipleship we live everyday, everywhere, on mission.

We are the light in the darkness.

Our Vision for Missions

  • Jesus said the poor you will always have with you (Matthew 26:11). James said true religion is caring for widows and orphans (James 1:27). Jesus said whatever you have done for the prisoner you have done for me (Matthew 25:40). It will be impossible for us to elevate the name of Jesus without caring for the least of these.

    Over the next 10 years we will give $1,000,000 away to serve the poor, the orphan, the unborn, and the widow. We will partner to see 1000 women and girls set free from trafficking in Jesus' name. We will see foster homes opened and orphans adopted and partner to end the generational cycles of poverty in Clarkston.

  • An unreached or least-reached people is a people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group without outside assistance. This means there is less than or equal to 5% Christian Adherent AND less than or equal to 2% Evangelical (Joshua Project). For us engaging an unreached people group means at least 2 of these 3 things have happened: A Bible has been translated into that people group's language, a long term worker has been placed in that people group, an indigenous multiplying community of Jesus followers has been established.

  • We are preparing to plant churches in North Africa, Belgium, Moldova, Panama, & Brazil.

  • We believe in the multidimensional impact of sending people on mission the right way. These trips will be local as well as global. We will work locally with our partners in Clarkston to reach the nations that have been brought to us. Additionally, we will send mission teams all over the world. Our focus will be holistic ministry, that empowers and supports indigenous people, works through the local church and prioritizes disciple making and gospel proclamation.

2025 MISSION TRIPS

2025 MISSION TRIPS

Dominican

Republic

April & June

June 7-14 (Family trip) // July 12-19 (Family trip)

We are partnering with Mission of Hope to send multiple mission trips to the Dominican Republic.

Located in the middle of the country is Mission of Hope’s beautiful Jarabacoa Campus. Serving in the Dominican Republic on a mission trip with Mission of Hope will be a life changing experience for you and your team.

Your missions team will play a vital role in the ministry happening in the Dominican Republic by serving alongside the local churches and leaders to help meet the needs of the people in the communities. Ministry activities include construction projects, medical care and clinics, evangelism, Vacation Bible School, and sports camps.

South Africa

February 5-17 //

April 30 - May 12 // November 5-17

We need pastors, counselors, and spiritually-mature disciples of Jesus to help encourage the marriages of ministry leaders in Southern Africa at a Marriage Retreat. Through teaching, counseling time, listening-prayer time, and free-time informal discussions, we often see God work miracles in many marriages. We have seen ministry couples on the brink of divorce leave our retreats with renewed marriages.

Each team will serve 8-12 couples at two back-to-back four-day retreats. At the end of our trip, our mission team will enjoy a two-day safari to thoughtfully debrief our mission experience and its impact on our own lives and ministry.

Young Life Retreat (April 30 - May 12 & November 5-17)

We will be facilitating two spiritual formation retreats for Young Life leaders from 3 nations at a retreat center in Bela Bela, South Africa. Our retreats have a focus to help these leaders learn to listen to the Lord during their prayer time. These leaders do an excellent job sharing the Gospel and discipling thousands of new teenage followers of Christ each year. Our role is to encourage and refresh these young leaders as they go deeper in their personal relationships with the Lord.

If you have a gift of encouragement, hosting, leading small group discussions, counseling, pastoral care, etc., we would love to have you join our team. For a video testimony of the typical impact of these retreats, click https://youtube.com/shorts/BNWwoeralGY

Africans Reaching

Africa

May 2-10

One of our XMultiply goals is to plant churches in unreached areas of the world. In partnership with Africans Reaching Africa (ARA), we planted our first church in an unreached and persecuted area of East Africa in 2024.

ARA’s mission is to mobilize African believers to go as missionaries to unreached people groups in Africa in obedience to the Great Commission. Once a year each Spring, we sponsor a retreat for about 30 missionary families from this region.

Join this trip to bring prayer and encouragement to these missionary families, and be a part of what the LORD is doing in Africa.

Nepal / India

February (dates tentative)

She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and slavery in high risk communities across the world, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future.

North Africa

March 3-12 // July (dates

tentative) // October (dates tentative)

You will encourage and be encouraged by meeting national church planters/leaders from North Africa during a 3 day prayer retreat. Our team will also spend time in a local school for refugee children from Sudan, and come alongside the long term work in spreading hope across this region.

Belgium

May 27 - June 3

Due to the decline in Christianity in Europe, Belgium is one of the most unchurched countries in Europe. Out of the 581 districts in Belgium, 382 have no known church. We have partnered with a Discipleship Movement all across Belgium called Recruits.

RECRUITS is an aspiring Belgian “Disciple Making Movement” (DMM). They seek to rediscover the ancient art of making disciples and see authentic and radical gospel transformation in their own lives as well as in this nation. In doing so, Recruits aims to contribute to launching a movement of revival and renewal that arises in the heart of Europe and sweeps through the Western world as they see the reality of God’s Kingdom established in our stories, our practices, our communities and our environments.

Join us for their Spring Conference as we join together with Recruits in our vision to see Disciple makers multiplied.

Resources

What are we doing?

  • In the midst of the pandemic, a group of people decided to feed families in Sandy Springs who were without food. Now they are a full functioning non-profit called Solidarity Sandy Springs. Elevate City Church partners with Solidarity to provide donations and volunteers.

  • Many people don't know this, but Clarkston—a suburb just outside of Atlanta—is home to refugees from every major conflict in the world. Clarkston is the most diverse square mile in the US. We have a missionary, Hilary Cheeseman, who lives in the heart of Clarkston and serves the families there. Hilary leads a ministry called Friday Night Light. Which serves the youth of Clarkston. Twice a month we are able to partner with FNL to bring the hope of Jesus to the students there. For more info email Tyler Nolan at tyler@elevatecc.church

  • City of Refuge is a faith-based environment that helps individuals and families transition out of crisis. City of Refuge is located in downtown Atlanta. As a church we partner with them during our City Serve events to come alongside their efforts to serve the people of Atlanta.

  • Most people assume that Belgium is a Christian country; however, due to the decline of Christianity in Europe, it is actually one of the most unchurched countries in the continent. Out of the 581 districts in Belgium, 382 have no known church. It is our mission to have a clear focus on sharing the gospel, discipling people, and surveying areas to unearth places and people who are ready to receive the gospel.

  • We have partnered with Compassion International to plant a church in Chinandega, Nicaragua. This church has over 150 kids that come every week to hear the gospel, and it functions as a worship gathering for the city every Sunday. We have a role to play in serving this church and sponsoring every kid that calls this church home. We will be taking short-term mission trips in the future to serve in Chinandega!

  • She Is Safe envisions every girl safe, free, and equipped to become the woman God has created her to be – contributing to a stronger future for everyone. Our church partners with She Is Safe to free and equip girls who are most at risk of being trafficked in areas of the world where sexual slavery is rampant.

  • Compassion International is a child-advocacy ministry pairing compassionate people with children living in extreme poverty to release the children from spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty. We partner with Compassion through their Child Sponsorship program to sponsor kids in poverty.

  • We partner globally with Operation Mobilization. Operation Mobilization seeks to see vibrant communities of Jesus followers among the least reached. They want to see 25,000 new vibrant communities of Jesus followers being launched every year, by 2030. We partner with them through multiple ways to see this mission accomplished.

Thomas Cheeseman

Thomas is our Discipleship Pastor, and he wants to connect you to opportunities to serve our community and our world. If you want to know more or have any questions, click the button below.

THE GREAT COMMISSION

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:18-20