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ANNUAL
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The adventure begins.
What God has called us to. 3
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Mile markers on the journey.
Steps we took together. 9
Fuel for the mission.
How we slice the budget pie. 25
Venture ahead.
Where we are headed for the future. 30
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The
adventure
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 Life
is an adventure
FROM PASTOR Ben
If we’ve learned anything over our past 25+ years as a church,

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it’s that God’s plans are far bigger and greater than our plans. Life is an
adventure! This past year has been full of twists, turns, and unforeseen
events and circumstances that formed us into the people God chose
to move his mission forward at CedarCreek of introducing people
to Jesus and the life-changing adventure with him! No matter what
is going on in our world, people still need to be introduced to Jesus
and grow in their relationship with him, and he has placed us here
in the communities we serve for such a time as this.

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OUR MISSION NEEDS
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Over this past year,
we’ve been challenged with COVID disrupting our society, our lives,
the Snyders and many of our ministries as a church. However, it did not stop us!
lauren I’m so proud of our church! As you look through this annual report,
noah please take some time to celebrate what we have accomplished
mary together. Our mission needs your calling! God has so much in store for
sam us both individually and together as a church, and I believe he’s gifted

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and equipped each of us to move this mission forward together.
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OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS
o i c e pastor ben snyder

As we move into this next year with the confidence that the best is yet to
come and God is by our side, we have opportunities for amazing impact.
However, the only way to do this is if we each leverage our voices and
influence in the spaces where we live and work, with the relationships
God has put in our paths — each of us realizing God is calling us to more,
each of us having the spiritual vision to see how God is working and
moving the pieces around us on a daily basis, and each of us believing
“You Matter” about every person God places around us. Every invite —
every conversation — matters!

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OUR CHURCH NEEDS
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You have a role!
Each of us has an important role to play, and I believe that is evident now
more than ever! Let us come alongside of you to help you see how God
has gifted and equipped you. If you’ve been through GrowthTrack, great —
it may be good to revisit your purpose in this new season; and if you
haven’t been through GrowthTrack, now is the time. There’s Kingdom

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work to do, and we are all called to join in the adventure. Now is the time!
Together, the adventure continues!
The mission

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THE r i t u a l
J O U R N E Y:
know Receiving God’s grace and
GOD.
trusting him more every day.

find Engaging in authentic relationships that help

FREEDOM. us get through what we’re going through.

discover Realizing your past, personality, and

passions all have potential with God.
PURPOSE.
make a Using the life God has given
DIFFERENCE. you to grow his family.

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The CedarCreek structure for ExecTeam — Establishes and brings alignment around We are
governance, ministry, and
business of the church is based
CedarCreek’s mission, vision, values, strategies,
and structure.
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around our commitment to clarity,
LeadershipTeam — Leads our staff and brings perspective
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accountability, and transparency.
on key organizational decisions.
These values have been the
StaffTeam — Is committed to leading a movement
foundation of our structure since We take
of people used by God to make a difference in the
the beginning, and they
continue to this day with our
communities we serve by helping every person to GRO
current governance and structure.
know they matter. WTH
PERSONALLY
DreamTeam — Believe no matter the role, we are here to help
someone take a next step in the adventure
God has for them.
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 The CedarCreek Board Members:
The CedarCreek Board (pictured from left to right)
is responsible for setting the Bill Trout
governance structure and policies Ben Snyder
by providing clear guidance and Steve “Hooty” Hutmacher
goals through written policies on Kathy Hoops
expectations and limitations Nate Manuel
of the Lead Pastor. The board
supports the Lead Pastor in every
way while annually evaluating

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their performance according

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to church goals and metrics.
The Financial Advisory Team helps
It also maintains the doctrine
to keep the church operationally
CedarCreek operates by.
sharp by assisting in the oversight
of financial matters with the goal
of preserving the financial health
of CedarCreek Church.
Financial Advisory Team Members:
Annual Report: Adam Zuercher/Findlay Campus
Celebrates everything God has done through the life of CedarCreek Church.
Chris Weaver/Whitehouse Campus
Shares the actual and budgeted finances for the previous and upcoming fiscal year.
Donna Owens/West Toledo Campus
Outside Financial Review:
Jay Potter/West Toledo Campus
Each year we bring in an independent outside audit firm to review
all financial transactions and statements. Gary Moritz/Perrysburg Campus
The Board and Financial Advisory Team are provided the results, details, and any Jack Bushmeyer/Perrysburg Campus

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material weaknesses in internal control or other significant risks, should they exist. Calvin Sweeney/The Tabernacle
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Markers
on the journey
 Know GO 5,679 219 279
God attendance decisions baptisms
(average) for Christ

Mile marker one is not only

where the life-changing
adventure with God starts —
it’s also where the adventure is
sustained and completed.
It doesn’t get left in the
rearview mirror. It’s actually the
marker for everything else on
the adventure. Think of the
weekend gatherings with
practical teaching as base camp.
We each take steps here
to know God more —
something about his heart,
his character, who he is,
and his constant invitation
for us to be part of the
bigger story he is writing,
for today and for all eternity.
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 Equipping
for the journey

Through our weekend messages

this past year, we’ve helped people
to both know God better and to live
out that authentic faith in bold ways.
We offered spiritual principles to
help people make the most of their
summer and to find peace no matter
what the world throws at us; we
celebrated 25 years of relentlessly
pursuing the lost and helping people
take bold next steps on the spiritual
journey; we talked about the division in
our country and how to respond as the
church; we learned what it looks like
to live a blessed life and to speak only
what is helpful for building others up;
we talked about Jesus’ most powerful
statements and what they mean for us
today; we invited people to step out
of the shadows at Easter, and to step
into the bold, satisfying life God calls
us to during The Adventure of You;
and so much more!
We can’t wait to see where the adventure
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Camps

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Last summer, 2020, our CedarCreek
Family Ministry Camps were cancelled
due to the pandemic, but this year we are back on track.
Camps make a life-changing investment and impact in the Next Generation:
“Olivia was struggling at school and home. She was not plugged in at church,
but about a month and a half before Fusion Camp, her mom reached
out to see if there was anything we could do to help her. Because of the
generosity of donors, Olivia received a scholarship allowing her to go to camp.
That made such an impact on her family that they started occasionally
attending on the weekends. At Fusion Camp, Olivia made really great friends.
She now attends every weekend, and her family attends as well! Thanks to
Fusion Camp, and the donations that allowed her to go, Olivia has a great
circle of friends and is personally in a better place than she was before camp.”

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MATTERS
t o r y Preparation and intentionality
through routine habits are
essential to the adventure.
Reading God’s Word, praying,
fasting, and even journaling our
experiences along the way all
add depth to our lives with God
and help us see the meaning in
the challenges we encounter.

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FINDING
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We are a community of everyday people meeting together in Groups
across NW Ohio and SE Michigan. We get honest about our lives in a
420
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students
smaller gathering where we talk, laugh, learn, serve, and grow together.
Sometimes we’re driving motorcycles or playing disc golf, other times
we're discussing a book of the Bible or Financial Peace University.
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adults
No matter the type of Group, we share our lives and stories with each

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other, share Scripture, and pray together. This is often what God uses
to accelerate life change on the adventure with Jesus.
total people in groups

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kids in groups

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 SECOND Each month, Second Saturday Serves
provide simple, meaningful projects
SATURDAY that meet a tangible need to make
a difference in someone’s life. From
partnering with local organizations

SERVE who are making an impact in under

resourced neighborhoods, to land-
scaping for a widow, to delivering

53 362 care packages to first responders,

we offer help and hope as we show
projects attendees the world the love of Jesus.

Let’s Build Beds believes that every child deserves a

bed of their own to sleep in at night, and they help
children by providing a bed and empowering them
to assemble it and be successful. At our April 2021
Second Saturday Serve, CedarCreek partnered
with this organization and with The Tabernacle to
assemble 50 beds! Two recipients were 10-year-old
twin boys who were brought to the experience by
their foster mom. They had a blast using power tools
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Sometimes we also need a longer stop – to refuel,

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double-check the direction we’re headed and
ensure it’s with God and others. This longer stop
was specifically for men on the life-changing
adventure through the Men’s Event.
Brian Tome was our special guest and he
renewed our perspective of some of the bold,
sometimes risky ways it’s necessary to move
to keep following Jesus.

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 Moment to moment it might sound
like this is an adventure for the sake of
adventure, but this journey we’re on –
pur p o
DISCOVER
s e
we consider it to be THE adventure
with God. We know God put us here on
purpose for a purpose. Our personality,
passions and place all point to our
God-given purpose and how we are a
part of his story. Our commitment is to
provide GrowthTrack every weekend
where we help others see it too.
We don’t settle for safe and
comfortable when we know the
invitation is to go further and
believe for more.

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 Make
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God’s dream is for more and more

people to step into the life-changing
adventure with him. One practical
step after the next, God calls us to be
a part of his dream, his team — the

DREAM DreamTeam — and to live a full, wild,

bold life so that his family will grow.

TEAM Our goal isn’t to fill our seats with

more of the already convinced.
When we look into the pages of
Scripture (and the truth of our own
lives), we see a God who leaves the
ninety-nine, who pursues at all costs,
who rejoices each and every time
a son or daughter comes back
to the family. Our DreamTeam is
committed to participating with
God in this eternally significant work!

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Our shared vision of seeing every
person know they matter means
that in both big and small ways,
we serve and help others in the
communities we call home. OUTREACH
Each July, we have our biggest
Make a Difference day of the year
with Serve Day, as hundreds
of people step into dozens of
projects across our region.

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thought about
trying to find a job,
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kids to the doctor
without a car? It’s difficult, almost impossible,
without a vehicle. CedarCreek Cars, led by
members of our DreamTeam, is dedicated YOUR
to helping provide and maintain safe and
reliable transportation for families in need.
“When we received the good
news about the van my kids
and I were so ecstatic that
When you give, you make a difference in your
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the kids did a happy dance
life and in the lives of those impacted by CedarCreek Church.
and I of course cried tears of
We celebrate everyone who takes a step in giving. Whether
joy and praised God for such 1st time givers
you give for the first or second time, you are a regular giver,
a wonderful blessing.” — L.E.
a tither, or you give above and beyond a tithe,
+ giving is an invitation to trust God.
Giving is trusting God.
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2nd time givers
Giving has an eternal return on your investment.
Giving is a step we celebrate on the spiritual journey.
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second-time givers, recurring givers, tithers, and legacy givers.
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COVID RELIEF
In the spring of 2020, as our region
began to reel from the impact of
COVID, we recognized the opportunity
to rise together and be light in the
midst of so much darkness. As part
of our Easter 2020 experience, we
committed to giving away $1 for each
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We love the work The Tabernacle is doing in Toledo,
person who experienced the service.
Almost 25,000 people tuned in,
allowing us to resource three
community organizations who
were providing food support to
people in need. Those organizations
were The United Way of Hancock
County, The United Way of Greater
Toledo, and The Tabernacle.
We also purchased
$5,000 of bottled
water for individuals
served by Cherry
Street Mission.
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PARTNERSHIPS
The Tabernacle
and we relish opportunities to partner in making a
practical impact in the name of Jesus!
Learning Centers were launched by
The Tabernacle as spaces where children received
an abundance of resources to help them succeed.
They were able to engage with online classes
throughout the school year. Into the summer, they
continued to receive tutoring and participate in
enrichment from community organizations,
all while knowing they were safe and
cared for by an incredible staff.
Food Distribution
The Tabernacle hosts two food
pantries each week, providing
The Workforce
Partnership
equips high school students to be
successful as they transition into
adulthood. This year, three CedarCreek
locations were identified as Workforce
Partnership sites. Each student
who participated found summer
employment, and many of those
job opportunities were projects
funded by CedarCreek donations
(for example, the Green Team —
landscapers who mow vacant lots).
Christmas
Shoeboxes
Christmas of 2020, CedarCreek
teamed up with The Tabernacle to
provide 465 shoeboxes full of toys,
candy, and hygiene items to children
from families who could use extra
support. We were also able to donate
$11,000, which provided a joy-filled
Christmas to twenty families!
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PARTNERSHIPS
Association of Related Churches
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about more people being reached as new churches are planted!
To help with church growth, we invest in the ARC, an association of
relational churches working with church planters and church leaders international
to provide support, guidance and resources to launch and grow and domestic
life-giving churches. ARC’s model has been proven through the launch disaster responses
of more than 900 churches across the U.S. and around the world, to date (62 in 2020)
with large launch day attendance and long-term success that
exceeds national averages. 200+
million meals delivered
Convoy of Hope to communities in
In 2020, we identified Convoy of Hope as a partner to help us make response to COVID-19
a difference in the face of disasters near and far. Convoy of Hope is a
faith-based nonprofit organization with a driving passion to feed the
world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreaches,
4.5
million individuals
and disaster response. Financial support from CedarCreek played a served in 2020
role in the following impact:
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 In t e r n a t i o n a l MISSIONS
Working in International Missions for the global Kingdom, during a global pandemic,
came with unexpected challenges, but God never stopped working through
GCLA Churches

During the pandemic, the region

around San Pedro Sula, Honduras,
was also hit by two devastating
CedarCreek’s partnerships and your ongoing support.
hurricanes, only two weeks apart from
CDI After-school Programs each other. The region's local GCLA
While the CDI After-school Programs we partner with had to temporarily shut down their church was at the forefront of rescuing
normal physical gatherings, they never stopped their day-to-day efforts to assist the children people from the heavy flooding and
and their families. Instead, they used video calls to continue assisting children with school providing food and temporary shelter
assignments and assessing family needs and shifted funds normally used for the daily for those affected. Thanks to the
lunches, school supplies, and school uniforms toward things like providing and delivering ongoing generosity of our local church
food for entire families who were unable to earn money due to pandemic restrictions. attenders, CedarCreek was able to
Plans are being made to relaunch the CDI's physical gatherings, and the CDI staff are so assist our GCLA partners in Central
thankful to sponsors and other donors who make their work possible. They were also able America this year with $30,000 in
to open two new CDI after-school programs in Olanchito and Valle De Angeles, Honduras, hurricane relief funds and over $6,000
thanks to CedarCreek’s Legacy DreamTeam. in basic video and audio equipment
Total Health Medical Clinics continued to see patients in the early part of for digital services and local CDI
the pandemic and transitioned to seeing patients digitally when possible. outreach programs. A new multisite
As protective medical equipment become available, Total Health staff have location for the church in La Ceiba,
started to see more patients in person. Thanks to CedarCreek’s Legacy Team, Honduras, will be ready to open when
we were able to send a medical mission team to Central America and open the pandemic allows, thanks in part
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Fuel
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 2020-2021 (HOW WE ENDED THIS PAST YEAR) Stewardship – the job of supervising

Budget
or taking care of something, such as
an organization or property.
2020-2021 2020-2021
We are passionate about responsible
stewardship of the church’s resources.
Budget Actual Total
We want to make sure the church’s resources
Income are utilized for maximum Kingdom impact.
That Kingdom impact perspective is not
Total Giving $9,654,000 $9,950,914 only for today (short term), but also for
tomorrow (long term).
Giving Allocation Our goal is to make sure the business
of the church doesn’t hold back the
Total - Ministry Programming $2,175,800 $1,943,104 ministry of the church.
Here’s how we put the generosity
Total - Ministry Environments $2,189,476 $2,553,522 of CedarCreek
Church
Total - Ministry Teams $4,978,000 $4,608,035
25.7%
to work.

Total - Margin $310,724 $846,253 MINISTRY

Total Giving Allocation $9,654,000 $9,950,914 19.5%

MINISTRY
ENVIRONMENTS

PROGRAMMING
CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS:
Ministry Programming - Our tools we use to do ministry
Ministry Environments - Our spaces we use to do ministry 8.5%
46.3%
MARGIN
Ministry Teams - Our greatest asset, our people who serve our communities
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 2021-2022 (HOW WE ARE OPERATING THIS YEAR)

Budget 2019 - 2020

Actual Total
2020 - 2021

Actual Total
2021-2022

Budget

Income

Total Giving $9,936,575 $9,950,914 $9,900,000

Giving Allocation

Total - Ministry Programming $1,979,280 $1,943,104 $2,258,500

Total - Ministry Environments $2,244,977 $2,553,522 $2,145,000

Total - Ministry Teams $4,779,054 $4,608,035 $5, 115,000

Total - Margin $933,264 $846,253 $381,500

Total Giving Allocation $9,936,575 $9,950,914 $9,900,000

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 GIVING
$10.0
Allocation Multi-Site Church
Benchmark Percentages:
Ministry Programming = 15-25%
Ministry Environments = 15-25%

19.9% 19.5% 22.8%

Ministry Teams = 45-55%
Margin = 5-10%
$8.0

22.6% 25.7% 21.7%

$6.0 % of Total -
MILLIONS

Ministry Programming

$4.0
48.1% 46.3% 51.7% % of Total -
Ministry Environments

% of Total -
$2.0
Ministry Teams

$0
9.4% 8.5% 3.9% % of Total -
Margin
2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022
Actual Total Actual Total Budget
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L E G A C Y
In 2019, we launched a
new DreamTeam called the
Legacy Team for those with
the spiritual gift of giving.
The Legacy Team is about
connecting people with the
gift of giving to their Kingdom
purpose through the local church.
Since that time, over $225,000 has
been given to fully or partially fund
thirteen Legacy Team Projects.
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Eleven Fully Funded Projects!
Projects Legacy Lane:
• Broadcast Upgrades and LED Wall in
the Perrysburg Campus Auditorium
Next Gen Legacy Lane:
• Kids Space Redesign at the
Perrysburg Campus
• Launch of a Kids Event
• Gaga Ball Pits at the Oregon and
South Toledo Campuses
Local Outreach Legacy Lane:
(in partnership with The Tabernacle)
• After-School Tutoring Program
• Summer Bridge Program
• Learn-to-Earn Program
• Outside Event Inflatables
International Outreach Legacy Lane:
• New Medical Clinic in Valley of
the Angels outside of Tegucigalpa,
the capital of Honduras
• Two UTMC Global Health Project
Medical Mission Team Trips
• New Children’s After-School Program
in San Jose, Costa Rica
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Venture
ahead
 Adv e n t
AHEAD
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We still have an unflinching resolve
to the same mission.

We believe God placed all of us here

for this very season.

We will continue to be courageous.

We will continue to try fresh methods

to reach new people.

We are convinced that the local church

is the hope of the world!

We realize that what got us here may

not be where God is taking us next,
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 This YEAR
We are positioned to:
• Continue to reach our communities with
creative courage and fresh marketing.
• Increase our digital engagement more than ever before.
• Leverage physical locations by:
– Upgrading our Kids’ spaces
– Evaluating permanent facility options for our
West Toledo and Findlay Campuses
– Exploring new campus locations in
new communities (i.e. Cleveland, Lima, etc.)
• Open a CedarCreek DreamCenter to serve our community
in new and exciting ways.
• Lean into topics impacting our world.
• Organize specific events to help build community and help
people take next steps on the life-changing adventure.
• Equip people to discover their purpose with new and
exciting updates to GrowthTrack.
• Celebrate more life change stories than ever before.
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GOD HAS DONE SO
M U C H I N U S A N D
T H R O U G H U S, B U T

t h e B e s t IS YET TO COME!
Don’t sit on the sidelines.

Venture ahead.

Let’s go!

Questions? Email:
AnnualReport@CedarCreek.tv

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