With each week I draw closer to wrapping up my Church Plant Residency at Cedar Ridge. It has been a wonderful time of preparation and equipping as well as a place to really pause and reflect on what God doing in my heart.
A dozen of us have started meeting on Sunday afternoons to discover where God is at work in our own lives as well as in the communities around us. Our focus over the next few months is to better understand God’s plan for His church and our part in that plan. We are taking a closer look at the life and ministry of Jesus and his early followers to learn how we can best posture ourselves in order to be used by God for his fame and glory.
This is an extremely exciting time for me personally. Five years ago this was just a crazy idea mentioned in a conversation and, though today it is still a crazy idea, it is so exciting to see it hit the ground in real life. Within this small group, which has been meeting in our living room, God has brought together a group of people of different ages, careers, and backgrounds. We are made up of neighbors, old friends, and new babies. Our hope and desire is to become a community that helps lead people into a deeper relationship with Jesus. Though we are in our infancy many of you have played a vital role in the progress and health of this new gospel seed in the Gladstone area of the Kansas City Metro through your prayers, money, and encouragement. God is the builder and planter of his church so please continue to ask him to build and plant in our community.
Join Us in Praying For:
A door to be opened for the gospel in our community and in the relational connections we each have. Colossians 4:2-4
Our group — that God would get a hold on our lives and that we would give our lives to God, each other, and reaching our community.
Financial Support — God has been so very faithful in ways we cannot even explain. We will be doing another round of fundraising in early February to hopefully increase financial and prayer support for the next 12 months.
Part-time Job — I will be seeking a part-time job to help make some money and to build new relationships.
Above all, that God would be pleased and glorified with all that we do.
Partnerships:
Over the next few months I will be highlighting some of our formal and relational partners.
CONVERGE HEARTLAND
Converge WorldWide was formerly the Baptist General Conference.
“Converge Heartland is a fellowship of churches in ND, SD, NE, KS,
western MO and OK with a central ministry focus to equip each church
to accomplish what God has called it to do in its community and world.
We are working to saturate the Heartland with new churches that
proclaim the gospel for the glory of God. We empower God-called men,
teaming with established churches, to provide the God given resources
(people, finances, leadership and supplies) needed to start new
churches to clearly proclaim the gospel as we multiply across the
Heartland and to the ends of the earth. Converge Heartland is part of
Converge World Wide a fellowship of churches with a network of leaders
working together to start over 500 churches in the last 20 years.”
We are so happy we get to do this with people we love and care about. May God use you this week for His name’s sake!
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