How a Church of 30 Impacted 1,400 Kids Through Sports Ministry
Every church member helps in Harvest Fields’ signature ministry, from cutting the grass to praying for the families on each season’s sports rosters.
Every church member helps in Harvest Fields’ signature ministry, from cutting the grass to praying for the families on each season’s sports rosters.
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.
"When a pastor chooses to live an unconfessed life, they put themselves in far greater danger than when being vulnerable." -Jamin Goggin
“Our focus is always on reaching the lost and those who are far from God. We just keep honoring God, trying to reach our community, being missional and attractional, and person by person, they keep coming through the doors.” - Pastor Brian McMillan
When people visit Community and decide to stay, Pastor John Scott says, it’s because of the worship, the teaching, the children’s ministry and, most importantly, the feeling of belonging.
Churches seem to have an expectation that people need to come to us. We need to change that paradigm.
A platform society equates visibility with influence. But it doesn’t really align with the kingdom of God mentality.
In its first decade, Suncrest was a young, small church without the resources to do what they’re doing now.
"Those we shepherd will see that it is in our honest crying out to God in our pain that our worship grows more authentic." ~Aubrey Sampson
I wish I had come across Being in Christ concept much earlier.