The Unleash Team at Fellowship Church combined several ministries and now has 11 members working to advance the cause of Jesus locally and globally. Over the last 18 months, their efforts included hosting large evangelistic events in Central Arkansas that attracted over 60,000 people, launching new education, health, and prison reentry programs, and expanding partnerships with missionaries and ministries around the world.

1. MID-TERM i2 REPORT2095502190750Unleash TeamJanuary 2010<br />executive summary<br />The last 18 months have been a time of significant change and advancement for the externally focused ministries of Fellowship. We combined our Community Strategies, Reach and Release teams into one team under the banner of Unleash. The combined team is now 11 members plus several key lay leaders who serve regularly. Our expanded team is unified in our efforts to advance the cause of Jesus around the corner and around the world. <br />This report will give a brief outline of our efforts and will highlight significant accomplishments including:<br />The Luis Palau Festival and the CityFest Season of Service attracted over 55,000 + 8,000 who served. More than 1400 responded to the Gospel and the cause of racial reconciliation was advanced.

2. We hosted the Out4Life conference on the issue of the transition from prison to successful living. The conference attracted over 200 participants + 60 volunteers from all over Arkansas and several other states including representatives of government agencies, churches and non-profits that work with prisoners.

3. Our work in South Mid-Town and the inner-city has continued to grow with emphasis on building relationships through literacy, education, health and families:

4. The Passport to Success program at Franklin served more families

5. New literacy programs were launched with Summer Reading Camps

6. We hosted training for 100 leaders to use Christian Literacy materials in working with children or adults

7. Shepherd’s Hope medical clinic expanded its services and doubled its service hours

8. We launched partnerships with Arkansas Baptist College and the Arkansas Department of Community Corrections to provide college training for inmates we work with in our prison ministry

9. The Lord provided funding for us to give away more grants than ever before and to dedicate more staff and lay time to serving real needs.

10. Working with our Congregational Pastors we have expanded our focus and increased the level of service to our community with new ventures in Little Rock, Maumelle, North Little Rock, Cabot and Benton.

11. Russell Rainey and Linda Slaton continued their life-coaching work with people seeking to pursue their passion to live out their faith in service. They presented at 2 Fellowship Network conferences.

12. We launched our new Fellowship Unleashed website.