Our Story
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From our Pastor's heart...
It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, you immediately recognize it as a “God thing.” At least for me, on very rare occasions, does an opportunity come along that you realize only God could have put before you. You know it because only God could have engineered all of the circumstances that were necessary in order for everything to come together.
It works like this: God begins to stir your heart and puts restlessness in your soul that you are to make a change in your life because you want to make an even greater difference with your life. It is almost like a God-baked fortune cookie that you break open in your mind and the message is, “Brace yourself. I am about to do something unbelievable in your life.” For me, it was a phone call and then a meeting over lunch and then a drive onto this property where we are right now. I knew immediately, in my heart, that this was from the hand of God. Seventy-one acres, of some of the most prime property in this county, three hundred and sixty thousand square feet of buildings begging to be retrofitted and renovated for the glory of God and I immediately saw three things:
I saw a great opportunity to do a fresh work for God. I saw the challenge of basically starting from scratch to do it. But I also saw our stewardship. This property was put into our hands to be maximized to reach people for Christ. When we came here, we said from the beginning, we were going to be intentional about reaching the next generation while also being a multi-generational church. The reason for that is simple. Either a church will continue to reach the next generation or it will die. For the past four years we have experienced many growing pains and even though we have come a long way starting out in a school with roughly four hundred people, we also realize we still have a long way to go. That raises some big questions –
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