Incredible News!

Last night was a very important night in the life of this brand new fellowship (Whispering Pines Community Church). If you have a moment or two I would love to share this share this with you.

We publically launched the church about three months ago. Since then God has done some amazing things and we have seen our attendance more than double. While that is great news, that cannot be our end goal. Our goal is to take people from the community and make them “attenders” of the church. Our next and most crucial step is to take these “attenders” and make them “ministers”. Attenders don’t affect culture much. Attenders rarely grow the Kingdom or change the world. Ministers are the ones that are change agents and Kingdom growers.

Last night we had part one of our two part “Boot Camp” meetings in one of our new family’s home. We had a total of 17 adults there to learn about the church and how to become ministers here. 17! That means that after next week’s final Boot Camp meeting our ministry team will double.

This is amazing to us. We are grateful to God for each of these families. Some are brand new believers who will be baptized later this month. Others have been believers for several years and are ready for leadership roles in the church. Some are great out front people and others are looking forward to working behind the scenes. The bottom line is that all 17 are eager to not just come and get fed, but to go out and to feed. These 17 are not just looking for God and us to bless them, but that they can be a blessing to others.

Jesus changed the world with 11, I think we’re off to a good start with these 17.

Life is good,

Billy