Planting A Church

I have done it.  I have become a member of a elite group of men and women across the world called church planters.  I plan on using this blog to detail my work and highlight God's plan. Feel free to ask questions though I cannot say I will always have an answer.

This quest has been over year in the making.  In fact, if you had asked me a year ago if I was going to plant a church, I would have laughed.  The process started, however, when I attended a free church planters seminar offered through the Assemblies of God in Georgia.  I like free having been a youth pastor with limited resources.  I went looking for ideas and came out moved by the Spirit of God.

In full disclosure, I have tried planting in the past.  I did everything wrong that a person could do and fell flat on my face.  I didn't get up but simply dragged my self away.  I did not have the tools or training to start a church.  I did have the call and thought that was more than enough.  Yet, I had not finished my first degree and had been an okay pastor at a previous church.  I read Purpose Driven Church and all the sudden I was an expert.  I had a lot to learn.

Enough of the self-deprecation.  I know without a shadow of doubt, God has called me to pastor.  When the seminar ended, God simply told me to follow Him.  So I hid it in my heart and prayed about what this would mean.  I was comfortable.  I was in a great church with great people serving as the Christian education pastor, youth pastor, and church administrator.  I was connected in the community I served.  Everything was going well and I am sure God would have left me there to serve but He had called me to pastor a church.  My heart was stirring.  So I prayed and as time passed the comfort left.  The church was great and the people are great.  I was uncomfortable not fulfilling God's call.

So, here I am a year later, in the prelaunch stages of planting a church.  Our first service is scheduled for September 7th.  I am at peace and without stress, not because I am super human but because I am happily following God.

Over the next several months, I am going to chronicle this work and what we are doing.  I can use your prayers, financial support if you feel led, and encouraging words.  I am looking forward to sharing with you!