Big Updates
Happy New Year!! It has been a crazy couple of weeks. We completed our move to Oklahoma. 4 of us had the flu, and then it was Christmas. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
Last night we had dinner with two couples who are founding members…very exciting. It’s cool that I can say we have members. It’s a miracle. It’s God going before us and preparing the way.
Some more exciting news is that we found a building here in Moore!! We are working on the lease agreement now. It’s a great location right off 19th and Broadway. Please agree with us in prayer that this will go smoothly. We probably won’t be able to get into the location until March. They will be making some tenant improvements, which is a huge deal. At this stage, I believe everything is a miracle from God.
It’s amazing how this whole process forces you to rely on God for every little thing.
This is what I would call the pre-launch phase. We are building our launch team. We will have our first meeting this Sunday night January 8th. These meetings will be a time for us to create community, learn the church's vision, and talk about where we are in the church planting process. We will meet every Sunday. During this time we will be developing our culture as a church. As I’ve prayed and things have evolved over the last couple of weeks I’ve made the decision not to call it a service right now because we won’t be ready to start full-blown services yet. Because the reality is we need the launch team to help us do services. We need volunteers/church members to be a part of the children’s ministry, ushers/greeters, worship team, security team, etc. When we can get into our building we will transition into more of a church service format.
My number one priority over the next couple of months is growing our launch team. Finding people who may be like us and just moved to OKC or people who’ve never really been involved in a church but are looking for something more. I’m looking for passionate people who want to change the community in which they live. It will be hard, but one day we will all look back and see God’s hand at work. We will see all miracles and testify of God’s greatness as we see the fruit and the lives changed. We will see countless people who come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ because we said yes and got involved in what God was doing.
It is not an easy job to create something out of nothing. I was on the phone the other day with a Pastor and he was telling me that this type of church plant is the hardest type to do. If I’ve learned anything over the years it’s that the hard things are always the things that have the biggest payoff.
So join me. Join our launch team and together let’s change the world. To join our launch team and get more information on when and where we will be meeting go to the home page and submit your name and email.
Let’s do this. Let’s do something amazing.
