Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Sooner Than Expected...

We'll Lifepoint Church is about 6 1/2 weeks old...and things are going great.
On average we're seeing between 90-110 people in weekly attendance...which is amazing for a brand new church.

Sooner than expected...

Out of necessity we started what we that would be a youth "small group" (maybe 5 or 6 students)...but what we have is a full out youth group. We're seeing 15-20 students show up for our weekly gathering.

We are also launching 4 adult home teams next Sunday (21st of October). My plan wasn't to start youth or adult home teams until Jan. 2008...just so we could get a few months of regular attendance and see what the landscape of Lifepoint Church was going to look like. I guess God's timing is different than mine...and I love that! We just have to be willing to be flexible as He leads and guides us.

Be in prayer for us...we have about 46 more weeks in our current rented facility. I really believe we can purchase land and build a permanent church...but God is going to have to move and open doors for us. Please be praying that will occur very soon...it's not a great deal of fun as the "leader" to know that come next September we don't have a place to worship.

God is amazing...and I look forward to seeing what He's going to do.
I'll keep you posted.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The growth is very exciting! Evan and I have been to several seed-plant churches, and they didn't experience this kind of growth spurt upon startup, and because we're on our own, basically, it's makes it even more exciting.

Our prayer is that the Holy Spirit will continue to draw people in and they will see the same kindess and compassion and experience the "instant friendships" that we've experienced at LifePoint.

Pastor Rick, we're grateful for you and Emily, as well as the rest of the church staff, for all of your hard work, your continued prayers for all of us, your faithfulness to the Lord as you press on.

Gayle & Evan Clift