Christmas Miracle Offering
Celebrating Jesus’s birthday with a BIG gift
2025 – Food Security & Beyond
The Christmas Miracle Offering is a birthday present for Jesus. Traditionally collected during worship on Christmas Eve, the Miracle Offering supports vetted non-profits who are doing BIG things to bring people hope.
The 2025 Christmas Miracle Offering of $344, 777 will support the food pantries and other ongoing ministries of New Path, the important work of New Creation Counseling Center, accelerate food distribution in Cuba and provide scholarship funds for student mission experiences.
The monthly food drive is one way Ginghamsburg Church stocks the shelves at the New Path Food Pantry. In response to growing community need, the November food drive brought in twice more than usual. “I’ve never seen the van so full before!” -Ted (pictured), New Path volunteer..
In October, New Path food pantries served 494 households with food, 263 of those households were residents of Piqua, 139 were residents of Troy, and 27 were residents of Tipp City. The remaining numbers were scattered in smaller burbs of Miami County. New Path served a total of 1512 people in those households. 83 of those families have never accessed the New Path Food Pantry before. Numbers are anticipated to be much higher during the holiday season.
CUBA
The U.S. embargo, imposed in 1962, means American goods are nearly nonexistent, and government rationing leaves families with limited access to basic necessities. Food insecurity is real. Rations provide the basics—rice, beans, bread, oil, and sugar—but often fall short, leaving families to fend for the rest.
Havana is only 90 miles from Key West, Florida. This stark reality raises deep questions about justice, provision, and how the global Church responds to needs that feel so far away, yet are strikingly within our reach. Cuba Connection Ministries (CCM) is Ginghamsburg’s partner agency. CCN provides resources and training to pastors across the Cuba. Their work is simple but powerful: equipping local leaders to share the Gospel while ensuring that basic needs—like food—are met.
STUDENT MISSION SCHOLARSHIP FUND
We want to make sure every Ginghamsburg student has an opportunity to experience God outside of the borders of what’s familiar. Maybe that’s Chicago or New York, or Nashville… or maybe that’s Guatemala or Jamaica, Cuba or El Salvador!
Lauren and Cristian Guillen from Reach Out International in El Salvador were in town to light our first Advent Candle. Ginghamsburg student ministry joined them on stage. They are hungry to experience God and Ginghamsburg Church is making a promise to help them do just that.
Who is New Path?
New Path Outreach is centrally located at the Ginghamsburg Church Care Campus and operates 19 separate community service ministries within the Dayton area, including two food pantries, transportation, furniture, clothing, medical equipment, rent/utility assistance and home goods.
In 2025, New Path recorded 25,962 acts of tangible compassion in Tipp City and the surrounding area.
New Path Serves!
New Path Outreach is a faith-based 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing families the stability they need to thrive. New Path depends on volunteer hours and financial gifts from people like you.
Who is New Creation Counseling?
New Creation Counseling Center is centrally located at the Ginghamsburg Care Campus in Tipp City, but stretches across the region through satellite locations, tele-counseling and schools. New Creation provides outpatient mental health counseling and psychiatric medication services to all those in need, regardless of their ability to pay. People of all ages are treated for a variety of issues, from anxiety and depression to relationship and parenting struggles.
In 2025, New Creation Counseling Center served 2,695 clients and provided 18,754 life-changing sessions.
The 2025 Christmas Miracle Offering will be distributed as follows:
40%
to New Creation Counseling Center (Miami, Montgomery, and Shelby Counties)
40%
to New Path Outreach of Miami County
10%
to Student Mission Scholarships for El Salvador and Guatemala
10%
to Cuba Connection Ministries’ food distribution
“The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.”
Proverbs 22:9
2024 Christmas Giving – $274,087
100% of the Christmas Miracle Offering goes outside the walls of Ginghamsburg Church.
The 2024 Christmas Miracle Offering raised $274,087. Of that total, $91,362 funded another year of local ministry through Ginghamsburg Church’s community partners New Path Outreach, New Creation Counseling Center and Clubhouse Teen Training & After School Tutoring. The remaining $182,725 supports the ongoing efforts of Isaiah 117 House to improve foster care in Montgomery County, Ohio.