Iretta Sturrup

Project Sturrup is a comprehensive witnessing program in the Living Faith Church and Philadelphia Church districts. It is witnessing with no strings attached. Project Sturrup involves the entire membership of the church being divided in teams of twos who will adopt two to five homes in the district. The teams will take a magazine and a warm smile to each home every month or at least six times a year (when director by the pastor or personal ministries director). Inserted in the magazine will be a letter from the pastor and/or an invitation to watch Hope TV or 3ABN or a special event occurring at the church, or other helpful information.

Project Sturrup is named in honor of Iretta Sturrup, a member of Living Faith Church, who gave the concept to Barrington Brennen, pastor, while sharing during in a Single Adults meeting. Iretta is passionate about sharing the gospel. When explaining her passion to us she said "it is not good when the only times we go to knock to doors are when we want to invite people to a meeting. Let us do it regularly and become genuine friends with the people." Thus, "Project Sturrup" was born.

THE PROGRAM
Project Struurp is divided in three phases: Knock and Smile, Call and Care, and Come and Join

1. Knock and Smile, as introduced earlier in this article, is simply taking a magazine to the door of each home regularly.
2. Call and Care involves two parts: (1) A Loss and Grief team of ten individuals will read the obituaries in all the newspapers each week and report of persons who would have died in the district. A letter or sympathy card will be taken to the home by the visiting team (2) As team members visit each home they will observe the needs (broken windows, unkept yards, etc) and report their findings to the "Restore Team" who will return to do the repairs.
3. Come and Join This we believe will be the by product of Project Sturrup. People will more likely respond to invitations to come to a program and be more interested in learning about the Adventist Faith because we are caring and responsive to their needs. We really want to visit with not strings attached.