Community Impact
Mission Statement

The Community Impact Committee will serve as an
official committee of South Coast Fellowship. Its
charter is to serve both the church leadership
and congregation by providing information about
social issues of concern to the body of Christ,
and education on Christian responsibilities to
love and service in the public square. The committee
shall also endeavor to equip the church for action
when so directed and to coordinate congregational
involvement with the character of Christ.
The Committee shall endeavor to assist the
leadership of South Coast Fellowship by also acting
as liaison to other pro-family organizations and
churches. By identifying needs and concerns,
together with the resources for addressing them,
the committee shall help church leadership to direct
the congregation in biblical response to the moral
issues of our times. In this regard, the committee
functions to disciple church members toward a
fuller expression of their Christian faith in the
public square.



Objectives Of The 
Community Impact Committee

There are four fundamental areas on which the
Community Impact Committee will concentrate:
educating, equipping, alerting, and orchestrating.


Educate

And this I pray, that your love may abound more
and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
so that you may approve the things that are
excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless
until the day of Christ.  Philippians 1:9-10

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6

The initial role of C.I.C. is educator.  Clarifying
Christian duties toward the community and providing
South Coast with accurate and pertinent information
on moral and political issues.



Equip

All scripture is inspired by God and profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for
training in righteousness; that the man of God
may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17

And He gave some as apostles, and some as
prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as
pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the
saints for the work of service.  Ephesians 4:11-12

Education is the first step in the discipleship
of a Christian but once informed there is a need
to know what to do. The second role of C.I.C. is
to equip, to provide the resource necessary for
action. The C.I.C. is to serve as a resource center
for South Coast Fellowship. 



Alert

Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you
a watchman ....  Ezekiel 33:7

For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who
will prepare himself for battle?  1 Corinthians 14:8

There comes a time for a call to action. This is
the role of the watchman to sound the call to arms
when the time comes for the church to take action.
The alarm must be clear, timely and accurate. It is
the role of the C.I.C. to bring the alert and its
recommendations of action to the attention of leadership.

The C.I.C. must exercise restraint in its capacity
as watchman, showing prayerful wisdom over when, how
often and in what fashion they will sound the alarm.



Orchestrate

And since we have gifts that differ according to
the grace given to us, let each exercise them
accordingly.  Romans 12:6

... make my joy complete by being of the same mind,
maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent
on one purpose.  Philippians 2:2

The function of C.I.C. as orchestrator is to
coordinate church involvement through the duration
of a project. Life Chain would be a good example
of such an activity.  To see the church in action
and to watch the joy people experience as a result
of actually being salt and light in the community
is our reward so to speak.