Church Profiles

Oak Park Church: Outreach in the City

Rather than solely coming alongside communities following major natural disasters, the church decided to use the ministry’s life-saving—and life-giving—equipment year-round.

First Baptist Leesburg: More Than Sunday Morning

“We minister to the broken people in our community through many ministries, and we attract a lot of people who want to join our church because of our ministries,” says Art Ayris, executive pastor of administration at First Baptist.

Evangel Church: Never Stop Serving

Last year, Evangel started a church two hours away inside the largest women’s prison in New York. A pastor and a team go every Thursday to share a message, preach and lead worship for the prisoners.

Leatherwood Church: The Pull

The church held their first Tractor Sunday, a gathering where people drove their tractors to the church to show them off, much like a car show, and everybody brought a sack lunch.

Star City First Assembly of God: Start With Jerusalem

The church looked around and assessed local need. One of its biggest outreaches is now a community-wide distribution of food, clothes, shoes, backpacks, school supplies and other household items at back-to-school time.

Mosaic Christian Community: Sacred Settlements

The church built a tiny home community on church property.

Connection Point Church: Connect, Grow, Go

"We knew that if we were going to follow Jesus’ command to go and reach the one, we were going to have to change our methodology." -Pastor Chris Vaught

Cross Church: The Courage to Step Out

Pastor Jaime Loya was intent on spiritual truths becoming a reality in the lives of everyday people. Hearing a message on a Sunday morning is meaningless if that message is not lived out all week long.

Trace Church: Waving the White Towel

Since Trace Church started using these white towels, baptism numbers have skyrocketed.

ACTS Church Lakeway: An Incubator for Church Planters

The plan was to incubate church planters within existing churches and then release them after six to nine months to plant the network’s next church

Suncrest Christian Church: A Church Worth Reproducing

In its first decade, Suncrest was a young, small church without the resources to do what they’re doing now.