Well, has it ever been a busy month! We launched the church last week on the 9th. Can I just say that I am a very blessed woman indeed to get to serve in ministry alongside my husband? It has been such an amazing ride to see how God has grown him over the past 12 years since he trusted Christ as his Savior. I remember when he preached at our home church for the youth-led service at the end of our junior year. I just had a feeling then that God was going to lead him into the ministry. And I'm so thankful that God began preparing me way back then for what I was going to need to be a help-mate to Keith. Not that I have it down, because I know I fail at this whole help-mate thing a lot! But that makes me all the more thankful for grace. And Keith is wonderful to show me that grace A LOT, just like God does. I think we had somewhere in the range of 130 new visitors - awesome! With the visitors, charter members, precious family and Ovilla family that came to celebrate with us, we had around 330 adults between the two services. It was neat to see a lot of those visitors return this morning. I so desire to see our church filled with unbelievers getting to come face to face with the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ and then getting to see their lives truly changed. Keith is preaching a series that would be so good for every unbeliever to hear because he is addressing eight questions that unbelievers typically wrestle with. I am pretty sure that you can listen to the podcast somewhere on our website:
http://www.hillcountrybible.org. If you are ever in the Round Rock area on a Sunday, come visit us at the YMCA or if you have any friends in the area that do have a church home - send them our way. You wouldn't believe how a gym can be transformed into a church sanctuary. We even got to take communion today as a church body. Our core team for the church plant is full of servants - people who have poured countless amounts of time, energy and money to see this church get up and going. Keith and I are just extremely blessed by the people we get to serve in ministry with. And most of you know that Nick and Jada Shock and Douglas and Darin Hallam have moved to Round Rock with us to be a part of the plant. Most of you know them because they have been a part of our lives long before we even knew about the Hill Country Bible Church Association. Nick is the Family Pastor and Douglas is the Worship Pastor. These two couples have sacrificed so much to see people in Round Rock touched by the gospel. They are couples whom Keith and I are challenged by everyday. Changing the subject, I just got back from a Children's Ministry Vision Meeting and we have about 55 Children's Ministry workers - for those of you who have never been a part of a church plant - that is simply amazing! We might have more than that now because we had some new people come to the meeting to get plugged in. I'll quit being wordy for now and just post some pics of the special people who came to see the church launched last weekend. I didn't get pics of everyone though - including my mom who came in last Thursday to help watch the boys while we ran around like crazy. She really is such an awesome granny. We are definitely spoiled in having really great parents/grandparents. You'll notice the first pic is of Keith's mimi and nanny. Both traveled to get to be here for the first service. We were so honored to have them here. Also, Keith's sister worked a night shift on Friday, then jumped on a plane and then rode in a car for 3 hours in order to be here.
Well, has it ever been a busy month! We launched the church last week on the 9th. Can I just say that I am a very blessed woman indeed to get to serve in ministry alongside my husband? It has been such an amazing ride to see how God has grown him over the past 12 years since he trusted Christ as his Savior. I remember when he preached at our home church for the youth-led service at the end of our junior year. I just had a feeling then that God was going to lead him into the ministry. And I'm so thankful that God began preparing me way back then for what I was going to need to be a help-mate to Keith. Not that I have it down, because I know I fail at this whole help-mate thing a lot! But that makes me all the more thankful for grace. And Keith is wonderful to show me that grace A LOT, just like God does. I think we had somewhere in the range of 130 new visitors - awesome! With the visitors, charter members, precious family and Ovilla family that came to celebrate with us, we had around 330 adults between the two services. It was neat to see a lot of those visitors return this morning. I so desire to see our church filled with unbelievers getting to come face to face with the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ and then getting to see their lives truly changed. Keith is preaching a series that would be so good for every unbeliever to hear because he is addressing eight questions that unbelievers typically wrestle with. I am pretty sure that you can listen to the podcast somewhere on our website: http://www.hillcountrybible.org. If you are ever in the Round Rock area on a Sunday, come visit us at the YMCA or if you have any friends in the area that do have a church home - send them our way. You wouldn't believe how a gym can be transformed into a church sanctuary. We even got to take communion today as a church body. Our core team for the church plant is full of servants - people who have poured countless amounts of time, energy and money to see this church get up and going. Keith and I are just extremely blessed by the people we get to serve in ministry with. And most of you know that Nick and Jada Shock and Douglas and Darin Hallam have moved to Round Rock with us to be a part of the plant. Most of you know them because they have been a part of our lives long before we even knew about the Hill Country Bible Church Association. Nick is the Family Pastor and Douglas is the Worship Pastor. These two couples have sacrificed so much to see people in Round Rock touched by the gospel. They are couples whom Keith and I are challenged by everyday. Changing the subject, I just got back from a Children's Ministry Vision Meeting and we have about 55 Children's Ministry workers - for those of you who have never been a part of a church plant - that is simply amazing! We might have more than that now because we had some new people come to the meeting to get plugged in. I'll quit being wordy for now and just post some pics of the special people who came to see the church launched last weekend. I didn't get pics of everyone though - including my mom who came in last Thursday to help watch the boys while we ran around like crazy. She really is such an awesome granny. We are definitely spoiled in having really great parents/grandparents. You'll notice the first pic is of Keith's mimi and nanny. Both traveled to get to be here for the first service. We were so honored to have them here. Also, Keith's sister worked a night shift on Friday, then jumped on a plane and then rode in a car for 3 hours in order to be here.
2 comments:
Wow! Thanks for sharing again.
Love, Mom F.
fantastic post!
and really cool new layout!
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